Free95: An open-source Windows-compatible operating system

Sorry this is going to be more impolite than most HN comments, but this person doesn&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re doing. WriteFile returns hardcoded TRUE. NtReadFile() returns a char*. NtWriteFile does a string compare if the filename is &quot;CON&quot;, and the entire functionality is a strcpy() otherwise. This is not what a replacement Windows kernel looks like.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Versoft-Software&#x2F;Free95&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;free95&#x2F;src&#x2F;win32.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Versoft-Software&#x2F;Free95&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;free95&#x2F;...</a>

Seems very WIP. Might be easier to start with something like ReactOS[0] and work backwards.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactos.org&#x2F;</a>

I would consider this project to be a joke. The code is nasty and you can barely consider this minimal graphical window, an operating system. There is basically nothing built there to contribute or at least that&#x27;s my thought after reviewing their project on github.

There is a pull request from someone suggesting they are removing malware from this... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Versoft-Software&#x2F;Free95&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Versoft-Software&#x2F;Free95&#x2F;pull&#x2F;3</a>

With ReactOS being around and given such a small target audience I don&#x27;t expect this will go far.<p>To be honest I wonder if this ends up being part of some CTF challenge

I used something like this back in the day to run Winamp when CarPCs were a thing (to play MP3s before MP3 player stereos came out).<p>If I knew what I knew now, I&#x27;d have done it so much differently, but it was the late 90s&#x2F;early 2k and we use what we know.

Hmmm, why didn&#x27;t i see this post before? i&#x27;m actually the lead developer of this. Don&#x27;t believe? then don&#x27;t. &gt;:)

Can I run Crysis with this?