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Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 08:34am 27 Aug 2018
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Have you seen this WIN95 emulator? It works under different systems and seems good for old software...

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Grogster

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Posted: 08:42am 27 Aug 2018
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Hallo.

Could you not just use an authentic Windows 95 install inside a VM(virtual machine)?

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Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 09:00am 27 Aug 2018
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Hi Grogster,

you are right! But this thing works out of the box and seems very fast! (no noticeable boot time!)

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WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 09:01am 27 Aug 2018
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Looks interesting for a MacOS environment. However, there seems to be a few issues that people have had in 'testing' this.

Will keep my eye on this one as looks interesting.

My ideal would be able to run Rob's GFXTerm within this emulator on an iMac.
 
Grogster

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Posted: 09:03am 27 Aug 2018
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@ Frank N. Furter - Danke. Perhaps I will check it out then.
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robert.rozee
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Posted: 01:15pm 27 Aug 2018
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from the README.md file in the source archive:
"This is Windows 95, running in an Electron app"

as far as i can tell, a processor + standard peripherals is emulated in javascript
("x86 virtualization in JavaScript, running in your browser and NodeJS"). this
processor runs a bios, that then boots a win95 disk image. ie, it has a distribution
of win95 embedded within it. see:
https://github.com/copy/v86/

so there are quite a few layers of abstraction between your windows application and
the real hardware of the computer. and i really can't see microsoft being too happy
about this, unless they have released win95 as freeware :-(


cheers,
rob :-)Edited by robert.rozee 2018-08-28
 
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