Felix Rieseberg, a software engineer at Slack has released Windows 95 as an app for Windows, Mac or Linux. It's a 100MB Electron app that you can install and run on Windows, Mac or even Linux computers.
In a GitHub post, developer Felix Rieseberg explains that you'll get the full Windows 95 experience after installing and running the new Electron app. The size of the Windows 95 Electron app is around 100MB and it actually works well on Windows 10 devices.
"I put Windows 95 into an Electron app that now runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. I'm so sorry," developer Felix Rieseberg writes in a tweet.
If you're interested, you can visit the GitHub page to download Windows 95 Electron app package for Windows, Mac or Linux. If you've got a Windows computer, you would need to download the Windows 95 Setup exe and double-click the app to use it. In a matter of minutes, your computer will be running a full-featured Windows 95 operating system.
Comments
Chris Cosgrove - 5 years ago
Some people obviously have more time on their hands than is good for them !
Chris Cosgrove
Warthog-Fan - 5 years ago
Why not Windows 98? That was a much better and more stable OS.
BeckoningChasm - 5 years ago
So, would this allow a person to run 16-bit apps?
ecfu1990 - 5 years ago
It's a cool little program, Trying to start MS-DOS crashed it though.
rhasce - 5 years ago
will this open up your computer to hackers? as XP is super insecure?
rhasce - 5 years ago
still very cool indeed
Dave1949 - 5 years ago
Amazing, I presume but I have to ask the question........cough, splutter........WHY?
Warthog-Fan - 5 years ago
Like Chris Cosgrove said, above. People with too much time on their hands. (LOL).
Chris Cosgrove - 5 years ago
@BeckoningChasm
If you have a 32 bit computer running Win 10 you can run 16 bit applications. I have a laptop running 32bit Win 7 and I guard it jealously because it runs some truly ancient 16 bit software that is still needed from time to time for maintenance purposes.
chris Cosgrove