You Can Now Run Windows 95 As a Windows or Mac App
If you can’t remember the last time Windows 95 was cool, we’ll help you: The Grateful Dead held their last show, the San Francisco 49ers won their fifth Super Bowl, and Kevin Mitnick was thrown into jail.
More than 20 years later, Windows 95 doesn’t seem so cool anymore – contrary to what you might believe in a video from Microsoft – but thanks to a clever little hacker, you can enjoy nostalgia for applications like MS-DOS Prompt (now Command Prompt), Phone Dialer (now Skype) and Freecell (now a heck of an app ).
Slack engineer Felix Rieseberg recently used the Electron platform to create a desktop application for the Windows 95 operating system. After you download the said applicationfrom his GitHub , simply double-click to launch the Windows 95 version.
I say “version” because it is not a full desktop. Of course, this is Windows 95, but some components do not work: Neither Internet Explorer nor other applications that require network access do not work. There is no sound, so you don’t hearyourself you know what . And don’t even think about hitting an MS-DOS command line application, unless you want your system to piss off:
However, Windows 95 is fun to play around with as an application. Draw a picture. Sweep up a few mines. Remember when Windows 95 (and your favorite application or game) was eating up all your system resources? Windows 95 is now just as tedious for a modern computer as a web browser with multiple open tabs. How times change.