Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:<p><a href="https://copy.sh/v86/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://copy.sh/v86/</a><p>My highlights:<p>- First version of Windows (1.01)<p>- SerenityOS <3<p>- and even ReactOS
Bravo! Was there anyone used the 'Briefcase' back in the day? I'd forgotten about that.<p>In fact I got so in the zone that I pressed ALT-F4 to close Win98 notepad and shut down my whole web browser instead!
I compiled a list of in browser VMs which includes this one <a href="https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b2427bd33210" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6379649c0cbade9abc02b242...</a>
Run a DOS box inside that, and you actually have a VM running inside that VM.<p>Win9x (and I believe it started with Windows/386) are based on a hypervisor architecture with minimal protections. The Win32 environment is essentially a protected-mode DOS application that also runs its own application format, and is itself a VM, along with each "DOS box" that gets created.
The thing that always strikes me with these kinds of demos is how absurdly efficient old OSs were / had to be. It's obviously not an apples to apples comparison, as modern operating systems have to handle a lot more, but even Windows XP (which handled a lot of the same basic Internet browsing tasks as I still use now!) is almost comically fast on modern hardware.
Amazingly, opening google.com in the internet explorer browser worked after running the "networking.bat" from the desktop<p>Many other pages don't load, possibly non supported https standards
I tried out the bootchess implementation on the website, and while it is very impressive to fit a chess-playing program in under 512 bytes, fair warning that it is not a complete implementation of chess. I tried castling and it didn't work, then found this comment explaining more:
<a href="https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64962#c715279" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64962#c715279</a>
Speaking of running Windows 98 in a browser, some of you might enjoy this:<p><a href="https://win1998.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://win1998.com</a>
Wow, we live in a time where I can run Windows 98 in my browser <i>on my phone</i>.<p>Technology has really come a long way since the olden days. (And I wasn't even there for the olden days!)