This is a great resource. Did you run into any weird emulation quirks with the older OSes? I imagine getting some of them to boot wasn't straightforward.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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#102It would be great if there was a list of OSes in the collection.
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#103Could really do with a torrent. 120GB at 3MB/sec...
If my download ever finishes i'll spin up a torrent. So far on retry/resume #12, 97.3/120GB done (i am live updating this comment as long as i can)
#16, 115/120GB
and it is not resuming ...
2026-05-19 16:23:03 ERROR 522: .
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#104My first operating system and GUI was GEOS on the Commodore 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Mine as well. Felt like I imagined a Mac felt like (I was Mac-envious in those days).
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#105I didn't see ryOS
Reposting from iluvcommunism who's shadowbanned
https://os.ryo.lu/ Quite cool.Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
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#107Amazing project - and you actually fulfill a dream of mine (to have a collection absolutely all historically interesting UNIX-like OSes in VMs available on demand).
I'll dig through my collection of "abandoned" OS distros to see if I have something that could make an addition to your museum.
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#108Searched, but could not find OS/9. [edit] No, found it!
Ran it on a 32k/64k Color Computer.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
If my download ever finishes i'll spin up a torrent. So far on retry/resume #12, 97.3/120GB done (i am live updating this comment as long as i can)
#16, 115/120GB and it is not resuming ... 2026-05-19 16:23:03 ERROR 522: . #23, 118.5/120GB and going again
all mine broke of and wouldn't resume but became 7k broken zip files.
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#110I hadn't realized Domain/OS emulation was viable these days. It's one of the few systems that has actually "lost" features - the terminal-window-like thing (called pads, I think?) when in line mode had a dividing line at the bottom where your unconsumed typeahead was visible and you could continue to edit it until it got read - not just one line, the entire unconsumed input. (Not that it's a particularly desirable fe…
Not only can you implement that with PTYs, it's how they operate by default. That's why you can telnet to an HTTP server and make a mistake and use backspace to fix it. The terminal will only send lines over. You have to use a command to put it into "raw" mode so the application gets every keystroke immediately. You have to ask for your PTY to not work that way.