Yes really, running Windows 95 on a Mac is as easy as opening any. Wondering what that OS was like, or want to experience it again? This online Amiga 500 emulator lets you try a system from around 1991. Modern fanboys talk as though Windows and Mac have always been in direct competition, but Amiga was also a major player. Rieseberg has published the source code and app installers for this project, and apps like Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint, and Minesweeper all run like you’d expect. Now nostalgia lovers can play around with Windows 95 in an electron app.
Slack developer Felix Rieseberg is responsible for this glorious app, based on an that supports Windows 95, Windows 98, and a whole host of older operating systems. Today, someone has gone a step further and made Windows 95 into an app that you can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. We’ve seen Microsoft’s popular OS appear on the, an, and even the. Windows 95 is the operating system that’s now used as a yardstick for what’s possible on modern devices and platforms.
