It's kind of funny to see emulations of Windows 9x being so snappy. Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed. People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
> Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed.
And now, kids, we are looking at the typicalest personal bias.
Things were different those times and you could had a stable platform (for weeks) with a carefully selected components or have a BSOD shitshow running a cheapest soundcard on some chinesium PSU.
Do your personal experience translate to everyone's?
> People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
They still are. For some reason Win 10 and 11 needs _a looooot_ of time to display the password prompt when the screen is locked and you press a key or move the mouse.
It's kind of funny to see emulations of Windows 9x being so snappy. Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed. People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
> Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed.
And now, kids, we are looking at the typicalest personal bias.
Things were different those times and you could had a stable platform (for weeks) with a carefully selected components or have a BSOD shitshow running a cheapest soundcard on some chinesium PSU.
Do your personal experience translate to everyone's?
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."
(Referring to the CEOs of Intel and Microsoft at the time.)
> People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
They still are. For some reason Win 10 and 11 needs _a looooot_ of time to display the password prompt when the screen is locked and you press a key or move the mouse.
These are VMs running built with JavaScript/WASM allowing you to run an operating system within your browser, all client side.
VMs
https://copy.sh/v86/
https://webvm.io/
https://bellard.org/jslinux/
https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ (https://github.com/jsdf/pce)
https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) (https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs)
Mac OS
https://infinitemac.org/ (https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm...)
https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo...
https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
On Vivaldi it BSOD'ed after the loading screen... that amused me.
Same in Firefox on Android
Is this running actual Windows 95 binaries in some kind of emulator?
The GitHub project is here: https://github.com/copy/v86
Booted to desktop and read only 14.1MB from disk. impressive.
The MacOS Classic equivalent: https://infinitemac.org/