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There should be some practical purpose for this, like some Win-95 only app I loved from my childhood that I can now experience again. But I struggle to think of

There should be some practical purpose for this, like some Win-95 only app I loved from my childhood that I can now experience again. But I struggle to think of any.

ct0 8y ago
Starcraft
jseutter 8y ago
Pinball?
bevenky 8y ago
MS Paint
akerro 8y ago
Diablo 2, Anno 1607
- doombolt 8y ago
  Diablo 2 runs just fine under Wine. They also have Mac version so you're covered.
Rotdhizon 8y ago
The late 90s and early 2000s had a slew of fantastic PC games that I would love to be able to play again
spapas82 8y ago
For me it's this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor:_The_Depths_of_Dejenol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor:_The_Depths_of_Dejeno... It is only playable on Windows 95 (and probably 98 and ME) and I have a Windows 95 virtualbox just for playing this game! I can't wait to test it!! As for the game itself? It's an old style dungeon crawler. Very primitive but after you play it a little you just get stuck and want to keep improving your character!
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
  Have you played Divinity: Original Sin? I think you’d enjoy it a lot if Dejenol is up your alley.
  - spapas82 8y ago
    Not yet but I know the game. I'll definitely try it thanks!
- sciolistse 8y ago
  I also have a virtualbox Win95 that I only use for Mordor! It had a great mindless grind sort of appeal.. and the music still gets itself stuck in my head.
aasasd 8y ago
The best game in the Star Wars franchise, "Yoda Stories." Might not be '95-only, but still worth it for the authentic experience.
vortico 8y ago
If Microsoft does one thing right, it's backward compatibility. After all, Windows is the operating system running old nuclear codes, hospital monitors, army navigation systems, etc unchanged from the 90's. So your retro games will play just fine on the latest version. VirtualBox or QEMU will run Windows 95 more "natively" if you need serious Windows 95 emulation.
- ekianjo 8y ago
  > Microsoft does one thing right, it's backward compatibility Except for games. Between XP and 7 many games broke, and the same thing happened again between 7 and 10. There are numerous examples out there.
  - jchw 8y ago
    In fairness, they painted themselves into a corner with intracate APIs designed to skip the normal hardware abstraction layers. It probably takes a ton of effort just to keep old DirectX APIs working through architectural changes. Also, supporting 16 bit software in long mode requires emulation, and they chose not to.
  - m-p-3 8y ago
    They completely changed the driver architecture, it was bound to cause some incompatibilities.
  - digi_owl 8y ago
    I dunno about broke, if they had backported the DirectX stuff to XP there would not have been a breakage. But MS tried to use DX10 as an upsell of Vista, thus making DX9 the last directX version on XP. What we ended up with was a whole host of game engines that stuck with DX9 to try to reach the largest possible market.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    True, but compared to game console backward-compatibility or that you often have to recompile things to get them to work between linux distros made the same year, Windows is pretty damn good about backwards compatibility.
johnhattan 8y ago
I'd love to try out some old 16-bit and/or MS-DOS games on it. But I don't see a way to copy files into its sandbox. Anyone had any luck doing this?
- digi_owl 8y ago
  I think you would be better off getting Windows 3.x going in Dosbox.
- sp332 8y ago
  Yeah you can add drive to the array at the top of https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/src/renderer/renderer.js https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/src/... So build an ISO using imgburn or something and then mount it? Source: https://twitter.com/felixrieseberg/status/1032656695548248064 https://twitter.com/felixrieseberg/status/103265669554824806...
Navarr 8y ago
I might try to play LEGO Loco on this. I know I've been unable to on Win 10
TAForObvReasons 8y ago
Old versions of Excel?
Endy 8y ago
Odell Down Under?
frozenport 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall

There should be some practical purpose for this, like some Win-95 only app I loved from my childhood that I can now experience again. But I struggle to think of any.

ct0 8y ago

Starcraft

jseutter 8y ago

Pinball?

bevenky 8y ago

MS Paint

akerro 8y ago

Diablo 2, Anno 1607

doombolt 8y ago
Diablo 2 runs just fine under Wine. They also have Mac version so you're covered.

Rotdhizon 8y ago

The late 90s and early 2000s had a slew of fantastic PC games that I would love to be able to play again

spapas82 8y ago

For me it's this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor:_The_Depths_of_Dejenol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor:_The_Depths_of_Dejeno... It is only playable on Windows 95 (and probably 98 and ME) and I have a Windows 95 virtualbox just for playing this game! I can't wait to test it!! As for the game itself? It's an old style dungeon crawler. Very primitive but after you play it a little you just get stuck and want to keep improving your character!

DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
Have you played Divinity: Original Sin? I think you’d enjoy it a lot if Dejenol is up your alley.
- spapas82 8y ago
  Not yet but I know the game. I'll definitely try it thanks!
sciolistse 8y ago
I also have a virtualbox Win95 that I only use for Mordor! It had a great mindless grind sort of appeal.. and the music still gets itself stuck in my head.

aasasd 8y ago

The best game in the Star Wars franchise, "Yoda Stories." Might not be '95-only, but still worth it for the authentic experience.

vortico 8y ago

If Microsoft does one thing right, it's backward compatibility. After all, Windows is the operating system running old nuclear codes, hospital monitors, army navigation systems, etc unchanged from the 90's. So your retro games will play just fine on the latest version. VirtualBox or QEMU will run Windows 95 more "natively" if you need serious Windows 95 emulation.

ekianjo 8y ago
> Microsoft does one thing right, it's backward compatibility Except for games. Between XP and 7 many games broke, and the same thing happened again between 7 and 10. There are numerous examples out there.
- jchw 8y ago
  In fairness, they painted themselves into a corner with intracate APIs designed to skip the normal hardware abstraction layers. It probably takes a ton of effort just to keep old DirectX APIs working through architectural changes. Also, supporting 16 bit software in long mode requires emulation, and they chose not to.
- m-p-3 8y ago
  They completely changed the driver architecture, it was bound to cause some incompatibilities.
- digi_owl 8y ago
  I dunno about broke, if they had backported the DirectX stuff to XP there would not have been a breakage. But MS tried to use DX10 as an upsell of Vista, thus making DX9 the last directX version on XP. What we ended up with was a whole host of game engines that stuck with DX9 to try to reach the largest possible market.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  True, but compared to game console backward-compatibility or that you often have to recompile things to get them to work between linux distros made the same year, Windows is pretty damn good about backwards compatibility.

johnhattan 8y ago

I'd love to try out some old 16-bit and/or MS-DOS games on it. But I don't see a way to copy files into its sandbox. Anyone had any luck doing this?

digi_owl 8y ago
I think you would be better off getting Windows 3.x going in Dosbox.
sp332 8y ago
Yeah you can add drive to the array at the top of https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/src/renderer/renderer.js https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/src/... So build an ISO using imgburn or something and then mount it? Source: https://twitter.com/felixrieseberg/status/1032656695548248064 https://twitter.com/felixrieseberg/status/103265669554824806...

Navarr 8y ago

I might try to play LEGO Loco on this. I know I've been unable to on Win 10

TAForObvReasons 8y ago

Old versions of Excel?

Endy 8y ago

Odell Down Under?

frozenport 8y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall