Post #1663431
2026-04-25 14:15 UTC
Replies (5)
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 14:34
It would be nice to have a Windows distribution dedicated for old games, without emulating or without relying on Virtual Machines. Installing a true Open Source Windows 95 on modern hardware to play old games would be kind of cool. I guess the drivers (and other software on top of it) would be still closed source though. There are probably lot of proprietary code and art involved, that it could be difficult to change the license of it? I don’t know what contracts they had back then (nor do I know what contracts they have now to be honest :D), that could affect such decisions. Do you think WINE would benefit from an Open Source Windows 95? I mean in practical terms, is there a “need” for?
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 14:40
Oh it just hit me that ReactOS would heavily benefit from an Open Source Windows 95. They are reimplementing a Windows binary compatible operating system from scratch. And it covers up to Windows 10 right now I think, but its not usable in real world. And the devs are joking about their own OS, its so funny and lighthearted. I digress…
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@j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 18:21
I’m sure there’s shady crap in Windows 95 that they’d rather not be made public too.
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 00:00
Didn’t they only recently open, what, DOS3?
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 04:50
I bet there’s still a lot of stuff coded in that era that is still used in windows 11, like the drive format dialog or some icon resources