Is a packaged copy of Microsoft's classic Windows 95 operating system that is running in an Electron application.The package is available for Windows, Linux and Mac devices, and can be downloaded from the project website.The release has a size of about 100 Megabytes; Windows users need to download the 64-bit version of the Windows95 distribution to get started.It is just a matter of double-clicking on the downloaded executable file to run the program. The start screen displays several important options.
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You can click on 'Start Windows 95' to launch the operating system, reset the machine to start anew, insert a floppy disk, or discard the current state and boot from scratch. Windows 95The Windows 95 environment itself runs in a window just like any other program. A selection of links and tools are displayed on the desktop that you may interact with. You can access My Computer, the Control Panel, or the c: drive from there for instance.One of the first things you may want to do is change the default background image; this can be done with a right-click on the desktop and the selection of properties from the menu.A click on the Start button displays links to tools and default programs that come with the operating system. You can start games like Minesweeper or FreeCell, or classic Windows programs such as Paint or the Media Player.While you can run and use most programs and tools of the Windows 95 distribution, you will notice that some cannot be launched or don't work properly. While you can run Internet Explorer on Windows 95, you will notice right away that it cannot connect to any website.Another thing that is useful to know is that you need to use the Esc-key to move the mouse cursor out of the Windows 95 window and to lock it in again.
Interestingly, Win95 had sound right from the first screens. Tip to set up OS in VM: Set the boot order to floppy on first boot of the VM. Once Dos has loaded, use FDISK to give you a partition on C: and then format C: Then install the OS.
The functionality seems a bit buggy at the time as I ran into mouse movement issues after exiting and entering the environment again.One interesting feature of Windows95 is the ability to load.img floppy disk images. You can run old games, apps, or load files from disks that you integrate this way. Third-party apps and games should run for the most part.Windows95 remembers the previous state and loads it on every start. You can reset the state on the Start screen to start anew at any time. Closing WordsRunning Microsoft's ancient Windows 95 operating system on newer versions of Windows or on Mac or Linux devices may not be something that is very practical but it certainly appeals to users who grew up with Windows 95 and those who are curious about the operating system.The ability to load floppy disk images is certainly an appreciated feature.Now You: Remember Windows 95? My IBM Aptiva E04 came with Windows 95 OSR2.
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That computer is still running, but with 98SE.Still i think XP x64 is the best version ever made. Anything after that is bloated and thewy claim You uninstall Windows stuff while You really only deactivate them. In 2000, XP and XP x64 You could change Sysoc.inf by remove HIDE in that file and really do uninstall un-needed crap. With later versions You have to create a special install build to get rid off stuff (and that might not always work either).
Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has that you can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The source code and app installers are available. According to The Verge, 'apps like Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint, and Minesweeper all run like you'd expect,' but 'Internet Explorer isn't fully functional as it simply refused to load pages.' From the report: The app is only 129MB in size and you can download it over at Github for both macOS and Windows. Once it's running it surprisingly only takes up around 200MB of RAM, even when running all of the old Windows 95 system utilities, apps, and games.
If you run into any issues with the app you can always reset the Windows 95 instance inside the app and start over again. Enjoy this quirky trip down memory lane. Yeah, I've been using Lite since I had a space constrained phone and since I'm not a heavy or advanced Facebook user it's enough for me.Being so small it's probably just a thin wrapper over the mobile site.Anyway, many (Twitter does for example) apps have 'lite' versions for resource constrained phones. Sadly, they're only (officially) available on developing countries. I guess the reason is to force users in developed nations to use the 'big' versions which have much more spying so that the company can m.
Want to know something funny?See something like Google Maps or other web-apps? They should be capable of running on a Win95-era machine easily.Want to know why they don't?Because Google developers are trash-tier developers that wrap their code in deeply-nested enclosures for no sane reason.Want to know what's the worst thing to do in JavaScript?Wrapping functions in deeply-nested enclosures.T R A S HI know this as a fact because I used to be able to use Google Maps on an old netbook. The newer update that came out a few years back is horribly optimized. It lags like ass.
Street View is impossible to use. It runs at sub-1FPS. It never used to.Likewise, so does Youtube.
The mobile player works perfectly fine, but the full media player is insanely slow, even when it is playing 144p video. I don't know who wrote that shit, but they should be fired.I can run Youtube 1080 streams over Hooktube better than I can on Youtube. More evidence to the point that their sites coders are shit.The funniest thing is Google Maps developers said the site now looks better. Does it fuck. It's a pixelated mess! All the imagery is noisy as fuck when you zoom in now. Still, give credit where credit is due, at least it actually contains more up-to-date imagery now!
They got off their ass and bought new imagery that almost every other mapping site has had for 5 years.Deep inheritance and deep enclosure chains are the worst thing in ANY language, actually. It doesn't matter what you use.Even with JavaScript and its prototype model, it still suffers horribly from it.Even with all the great optimizations that have happened over the years with JIT'd JS, it still can't do this well.It's a horrible meme I wish would die.If you own a business, ban developers from using it. It's horrible.
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It's the worst thing to happen to software development. Not only that, it takes so much longer to develop because it's a pain in the ass trying to keep track of what the fuck does what.You should never go more than 3 layers deep in ANYTHING, whether it is nested loops, functions or object inheritance. The only excuse is if you are using complex dimensions like that required in physics, machine learning, etc. But there are better ways.Some people call this 'progress', I call it retard developers that shouldn't be in the industry in the first place because software development has been artificially inflated with shit job roles thanks to the UML-kiddie generation of programmers. Not only that, it has been flooded by developers who have, at most, a summer-courses worth of experience with software development.
India is infamous for this. It shits out low-quality developers like this.Making your code worse is not progress!
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