erpdude8 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Recently these articles came out mentioning about a Windows 95 app for recent Linux, Mac & Windows OSes: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pining-for-windows-95-you-can-now-download-it-as-a-free-app/ https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-relive-your-youth-with-windows-95-which-now-comes-as-an-electron-app https://www.zdnet.com/article/did-you-love-windows-95-its-now-a-free-app-for-macos-windows-linux/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethelflaed Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Yes, I've tried it. It works quite well, although the app doesn't appear to contain a scaler allowing the Win95 desktop to fill the app's entire window at higher resolutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) Will this run on Windows 8 or Vista? I know it needs .NET v4.5. (just checking before I junk my own system) Edited August 25, 2018 by Jody Thornton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinClient5270 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 11 hours ago, Jody Thornton said: Will this run on Windows 8 or Vista? I know it needs .NET v4.5. (just checking before I junk my own system) Doesn't work on Vista Perhaps @UCyborg could fix it, since it's open source... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 That's the same error I received. I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinClient5270 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 4 minutes ago, Jody Thornton said: That's the same error I received. I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox. http://prntscr.com/kmy1vu Works fine for me on Windows 7 so don't see why it wouldn't work with 8. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenhillmaniac Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 The program doesn't work on Vista because it uses Electron, based on Google Chrome's latest Javascript engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinClient5270 Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 5 hours ago, greenhillmaniac said: The program doesn't work on Vista because it uses Electron, based on Google Chrome's latest Javascript engine. Yeah I figured that. I wonder though if the missing call(s) can be rerouted or disabled altogether if it's not actually needed for the software to run/work properly. @UCyborg has done this with several pieces of unsupported software to get them to work with Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waywyrd Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 This looks interesting. Being a bit nostalgic I wish I could still run Win98SE, with IE removed, courtesy of https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html, MDGx (from this forum) and a guy from the UK who had method he called Speedos. I had an incredibly fast O/S, with few or no BSD's, and it would run for hours before needing a reboot. Even though I started with a fairly high spec computer for the time, after the 98SE mods there was an significant speed and response increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRainharp Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 While it's an interesting concept, I dislike Electron immensely... it's never going to have as decent performance as a native application. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTri Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 On Κυριακή, 26 Αυγούστου 2018 at 7:22 AM, Jody Thornton said: That's the same error I received. I wonder if I should use it on Windows 8 instead of DOSBox. You mean that it runs on Windows 8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Thornton Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Well, it's been verified to run on Windows 7, and Windows 8 includes .NET v4.5, so I think it would run. Now just to test if I could run DOS games on it (and better than in DOSBox) :) 4 hours ago, HarryTri said: You mean that it runs on Windows 8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 As far as I am aware, Microsoft has not yet released Windows 95 into the public domain. As such, this software is warez as it contains a "disk image" of an installed Windows 95 OS. Congrats to Techrepublic, Neowin and Zdnet for supporting software piracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTri Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Yet it is an abandonware case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 43 minutes ago, HarryTri said: Yet it is an abandonware case. There's no such thing as abandonware. It's a myth, just like unicorns and centaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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