TechSpot

Did you know? Windows 95 used three different operating systems during setup

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...
Digital Trends

Windows 95, Duke Nukem 3D are strange bedfellows on the Xbox One console

Now this is interesting. Not too long ago we saw Microsoft’s retired Windows 95 platform running inside a browser, on the Nintendo 3DS handheld, and on an Apple iWatch. Now it seems that someone ...
Digital Journal

Gamer gets Windows 95 running on an Xbox One

YouTube user vcfan uploaded a video of an early version of the app this week. Vcfan got Windows 95 running on the console by porting open-source DOS emulator DOSBox ...
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Nintendo 3DS runs Windows 95 via DOSBox — but takes hours to boot

A tech tinkerer decided to put the homebrew Nintendo 3DS port of DOSBox to the ultimate test — running Windows 95. Using the souped-up version of the 3DS, the "New" 3DS with additional RAM and ...
TechSpot

The Windows 95 setup was text-based for a good reason, Microsoft employee reveals

In a nutshell: When trying to install Windows 95 for the first time, PC users were presented with a dull text interface and no graphics. DOS could indeed "do graphics," but the Windows team decided to ...