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Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by Minocula »

Op here...Thank you for all the visits and feedback. Thanks to them I was able to optimize and test the system. I will be documenting more details about the setup and operation in the future if anyone wants to build something like this or is simply interested. At the moment, like every free project, there is a lack of money to make the system faster and more stable. Since 2024-01-11T12:31 in my time zone over 2183 connections have been registered and I am happy that Hacker News is now reporting about it.

here I post some nice trial and error tests from users.

https://firncloud.trialanderror.tech/s/Kwa9WGjc7oLETYm

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by Minocula »

elijahrdev wrote: post #32
treesknees wrote: post #29

It's great that someone is trying to preserve these operating systems. However the choice of limiting it to 1 user per OS at a time makes the museum/website unusable. I tried several times over the span of 20 minutes and couldn't get into a single VM. While it doesn't cover everything, there is no shortage of browser-based emulators that can run most of the software listed. Windows 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 https://www…

We actually run a site pretty similar to this in concept, we've got 9 VMs total and you can take 20 second turns controlling them with other users. There's chat, and if someone breaks it, you can start a vote to reset. https://computernewb.com/collab-vm/

I first became aware of Hacker News thanks to this project. Great project. There is certainly room for improvement, but it works and is fun!

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by anthk »

M95D wrote: post #38
cdchn wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And compatibility with Windows 95 and MS-DOS.

What compatibility? What are you talking about? Can't even run Doom. https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/3353-cant-get-dooom-to...

You can use, maybe, ReactOS' ntvdm.dll as a replacement.

On W95 compatibility, in lots of older games (specially the Direct Draw ones) ran much better than XP.

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by ahoka »

M95D wrote: post #39
ahoka wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just bought a T43 to run Windows 2000 this week. Just got wifi working with WPA2, so I just need some decent browser and some apps next.

Install Extended Kernel patch and you can use MyPal (a fork of Firefox v68 that can run on WinXP).

I want to go vanilla, but thanks!
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