Running Windows 98 in the Browser

Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copy.sh&#x2F;v86&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copy.sh&#x2F;v86&#x2F;</a><p>My highlights:<p>- First version of Windows (1.01)<p>- SerenityOS &lt;3<p>- and even ReactOS

Bravo! Was there anyone used the &#x27;Briefcase&#x27; back in the day? I&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;SMUsamaShah&#x2F;6379649c0cbade9abc02b2427bd33210" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;SMUsamaShah&#x2F;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&#x2F;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 &quot;DOS box&quot; that gets created.

Nice, first thing I tried was to defrag the C: drive. Feeling well-groomed again.

The thing that always strikes me with these kinds of demos is how absurdly efficient old OSs were &#x2F; had to be. It&#x27;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.

Bonus points for including sheep.exe. That was a welcome trip down memory lane.

BSOD = Start -&gt; Run -&gt; c:\con\con -&gt; OK

Previous discussions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11155203">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11155203</a> <i>(356 points | Feb 23, 2016 | 165 comments)</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23674012">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23674012</a> <i>(421 points | June 29, 2020 | 266 comments)</i>

Amazingly, opening google.com in the internet explorer browser worked after running the &quot;networking.bat&quot; from the desktop<p>Many other pages don&#x27;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&#x27;t work, then found this comment explaining more: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=64962#c715279" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=64962#c715279</a>

3D Maze is there, I&#x27;m happy.

Speaking of running Windows 98 in a browser, some of you might enjoy this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;win1998.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;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&#x27;t even there for the olden days!)

Usability is really bad in the iPad. But incredible that web technology came that far, that we can complain about something like that!

feels more snappy than my normal windows 10 experience. Even the boottime is way faster with win98.

I ran Disk Defragmenter, just out of curiousity. The drive actually has some sectors marked as bad.

This is so cool! Thanks for making it

I am getting ip conflict warnings