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Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by xhrpost »

It's stuff like this that makes me wish I had unlimited side project time. I think this could be fun to work on but my assembly/C level programming skills would need some serious ramp-up. Great work though!

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by pan69 »

michaelmior wrote: post #11
triplem wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Once you go into fullscreen mode it seems it work fine, but it took me a while to figure this out...

Re: Show HN: Windows 98 in browser

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Post by copy »

apetresc wrote: post #12

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 :)

It's possible, Windows 98 has drivers for the NE2000 network card we're emulating (https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/src/ne2k.js). However, currently the emulation isn't accurate enough, Windows 98 refuses to use it.
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