Run Windows95!

takeahike · 2025-02-21T18:29:55+00:00

Get it here. It's a little tricky but works. I just got the portable version, the download "windows95-win32-x64-4.0.0.zip." When it opens don't hit Start Windows95 in the middle (that stalled for me) but hit Settings and then and then Boot from Scratch, and then it will run. Don't try to run it full screen because that will still just give you a window that takes up about half the screen. After I was done I just hit shut down and closed the window. Use your escape key to get the mouse cursor back that disappears after shut down. Update: Kind of weird--sometimes the above start procedure works and sometime not, and sometimes the Start Windows 95 in the center will work. Just depends on what it wants to do each time, so you have to experiment a little but I can usually get it running one way or the other.🤷🤷

antdude

takeahike BTW, the Windows 95 doesn't save anything, not even a Word document or a change of the wallpaper, just coming up with the defaults on a restart.

Or just get a virtual machine like in VirtualBox and VMware. However, it was a pain in the arse to set it up. I forgot how difficult it was to do it back then! 🙁

Astyanax

antdude Bah, HS/Link FTW!

The author of the protocol supposedly still runs a BBS but the web page may be way old.

https://qodem.sourceforge.io/hslink/shsmith.htm

I operate a bulletin board system, The Tool Shop.
The Tool Shop BBS has been in continuous operation since 4/1/87.
The telephone number is (213) 389-5300.

You still got that modem to try to dial in? 😄

antdude

Astyanax You still got that modem to try to dial in? 😄

I do have dial-up modems, but no copper wire service.

takeahike

Now v5.0.1. Same link as in OP.

OmegaWolf747

Astyanax Ah! That’s so cool! They must not have made it for Windows because my AfterDark never had it.

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