Microsoft released Windows 95 on August 24, 1995, which means the operating system is old enough to vote, drink, and do just about anything in the US except run for president. While Windows has come a long way in the past 25 years, if a modern Windows user were to fire up Windows 95 today, […]
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Run Windows 95 as an app (and yes, it runs Doom)
Developer Felix Reiseberg released an app last year… that basically let you use a rough-around-the-edges version of Windows 95 as a standalone app that can run in Windows, Mac, or Linux. There aren’t really a lot of reasons you’d want to do that, but it’s neat that you could. Now there are a few more reasons […]
Running Windows 95 on a smartwatch… because why not?
Want to run a desktop operating system on your wristwatch? Probably not… but it’s nice to know you can. Corbin Davenport has posted a video showing Windows 95 running on a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch. The Samsung Gear Live features a 1.6 inch, 320 x 320 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 512MB of RAM, […]
Winulator lets classic Windows games, apps run on Android (video)
You know how people are always saying today’s smartphones have more processing power than the computers that sent the first rockets to the moon? Well, not only is that true, but odds are your smartphone is faster than the desktop PC you were using in the early 90s. So why can’t you run some 90s-era […]