The talented Felix Rieseberg has updated his emulation of Windows 95 to offer it on macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows. On his Github page, the character also offers an emulation of MacOS 8.
At a time when iOS and Android are making the headlines in high-tech news, a programmer named Felix Rieseberg invites us to dive back into the history of computing with an application emulating the Windows 95 operating system. Its release was in its time an event comparable to the launch of the new iPhone 14 or the Samsung Galaxy S23. According to some experts, its release in 1995 heralded the dawn of consumer computing.
Felix Rieseberg is not the first comer. Besides having been engineer at Microsofthe is one of the creators of Slack, the collaborative communication platform, and he helps maintain Electron, a framework that allows programming applications for Windows, MacOS and Linux in JavaScript. It is precisely thanks to Electron that it has updated its Windows 95 emulation, which was released four years ago. Thanks to the magic of web technologies, the latter can now work on all PCs, regardless of operating system.
Windows 95 requires at least 4 MB of RAM and 120 MB on your hard disk
The successor to Windows 3.1 was the forerunner of many features that we still use today: it inaugurated the Start button that we can now customize or the famous taskbar. Hardware too, the move to a 32-bit architecture required the use of a new generation of Intel processors. To run Windows 95, a PC had to haveat least 4 MB of RAM and 120 MB of storage. For comparison, the minimum configuration required to run is 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of hard disk for a processor running at least at 1 GHz.
If you want to step back to a time when Microsoft was considered a cool and innovative company, or are just curious, Windows 95 is now available on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 (in 32-bit, 64-bit and for ARM64), in a portable version for macOS (M1 compatible) and on Linux. Because it’s a recreation rather than an emulation, Windows 95 runs inside your computer’s operating system, so there’s no need to multiboot.
Source : BetaNews
