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Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by michaelmior »

triplem wrote: post #7
livatlantis wrote: post #5

Doesn't seem to work too well on Windows 10. It might be missing some DLLs. /s Super cool! (I really can't get it to click on anything though)

You can use the Lock mouse button. You will be able to click on what you want.

The Lock mouse button helped with my first problem which was that the emulated cursor seemed to be scaling its position based on the side of my browser window instead of the size of the emulated window. Locking the mouse fixed the position issue but I'm still unable to click on anything though.

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by apetresc »

The network interface doesn't seem to be configured – when I try to open the browser it wants me to install a modem. Is the VM just not configured for that, or do I need to do something? Would love to see what today's web looks like on '98 IE :)

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by fsiefken »

What a coincidence, I was just thinking about how nice it would be if I could start a minimal javascript linux with toybox and start spacemacs with it (Win 3.11 in the browser would be nice too, there is a whole ecosystem of apps. Windows95b would be slower, but still faster and smaller then Windows98.

I wonder how fast civ1 would run on freedos here.

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by zero-g »

Where does one start with such thing? I mean, where do I read how to emulate CPU (or at least how CPU works, so I would be able to come up with how to emulate it by myself), how does PS/2 work, how to boot an image from BIOS?

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

fsiefken wrote: post #13

What a coincidence, I was just thinking about how nice it would be if I could start a minimal javascript linux with toybox and start spacemacs with it ( Win 3.11 in the browser would be nice too, there is a whole ecosystem of apps. Windows95b would be slower, but still faster and smaller then Windows98. I wonder how fast civ1 would run on freedos here.

95 in the browser has already been done (by me): https://win95.ajf.me/

That uses Em-DOSBox, which is more limited than v86 (which the OP uses) in some respects. I think v86 is loading hard disk sectors on-demand, which is pretty amazing compared to Em-DOSBox which has to download a massive disk image. On the other hand, Em-DOSBox has sound support!

The Internet Archive has 3.11 in the browser: https://archive.org/details/win3_stock (there's also various 3.x games as well)

This also uses Em-DOSBox.

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by mtharrison »

zero-g wrote: post #14

Where does one start with such thing? I mean, where do I read how to emulate CPU (or at least how CPU works, so I would be able to come up with how to emulate it by myself), how does PS/2 work, how to boot an image from BIOS?

Yeah, I always feel the same when I see similar things. How do you even start?

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by toyg »

zero-g wrote: post #14

Where does one start with such thing? I mean, where do I read how to emulate CPU (or at least how CPU works, so I would be able to come up with how to emulate it by myself), how does PS/2 work, how to boot an image from BIOS?

University courses? I'm pretty sure CPUs were a huge part of my first year of CS.
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