Virtual Windows 98 Reviews and details

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• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  v86 — an x86 virtual machine capable of running Linux and other OS directly into the browser. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters

  > As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator" I looked into this and... Holy crap! We are there. Not for modern programs quite yet, sure, but this is amazing. You can use Windows 2000 from your browser. https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"?

  I think you are looking for Shadow. https://shadow.goose.icu Or just the whole kitchen sink. Why not? http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

  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... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Hot Dog Linux

  Yes—go to https://copy.sh/v86/ and click on the 9front link. A session will open in your browser. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts

  Trying it out in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios , it's also clearly a love letter to Windows 95 in particular. That could be an unstated goal here, create a very particular PC experience under very particular constraints. I don't know anything about the creator but it's very possible that this kind of work was actually their career in the 90s. It's incredible how much work was done. Maybe this should be an... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts

  It's possible to try it on a web browser thanks to the Virtual x86 project: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• VMware is now part of Broadcom

  Hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Isn't vbox open source, or even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ would do most virtualization trick now days? - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Running Windows 98 on the Browser

  Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page: https://copy.sh/v86/ My highlights: - First version of Windows (1.01) - SerenityOS <3 - and even ReactOS. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• The History of Windows 2.0

  That menu is the system menu [0], still present in current Windows (Alt+Space). You can try out the Windows 1 version in your browser here: http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows1 I still use it to close applications by keyboard (Alt+Space C) because I find that easier to press than Alt+F4. [0] https://en. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64

  You can try it here (somewhat slow, but works as a demo): https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=serenity. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job

  Please don't lump the linux kernel in with these heathens. Here's buildroot in the browser: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=buildroot It's 5MB. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Current state of linux application sandboxing. Is it even as secure as Android ?

  Simply by enabling JavaScript you are running untrusted code inside the sandbox that is the JS engine of your browser. Things like http://copy.sh/v86/ can run Windows or Linux inside this sandbox. So, you are saying that you fully trust each snippet of JS that your browser downloads? Source: over 1 year ago

• CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

  To be really safe, if you run Windows and are jonesing for some ActiveX action, you can run WSL, and LXDE on WSL, and run https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 on Firefox on LXDE[1]. That’s maybe enough layers of indirection to make ActiveX safe :-) [1] https://imgur.com/a/VHYehLQ. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers

  When everything else fails, you can just boot up a full Windows VM: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• How to encrypt data for long term archival?

  Any local software like regular archivers and encryption programs (even full disk, boot disk, etc. Ones - everything before the cloud, mobile and app store craze) is easy to run, even from 40+ years back. You can run very cleanly a Windows 2000 virtual machine in countless ways, including in your browser: https://copy.sh/v86/ (yes, it works on phones as well, at least on the ones a little more powerful). Not that... Source: almost 2 years ago

• AI’s on iPad Pro

  For example vscode.dev actually runs locally on your device via a web-browser. More impressive examples include v86 https://copy.sh/v86/ where you can run old Windows versions in your web browser. There are also the web-based Dosbox games from archive.org. These are all running on your hardware, just inside the web-browser. Source: almost 2 years ago

• VM WinXP in a browser ?

  I'm using an old soft from BSS or Yamaha to help them understand how a digital sound mixer is working ... One used to control Soundweb (sound processor from BSS) gear (or DME, in Yamaha range). There are a more recent version as there are more recent version of Soundweb (called BLU) but it's way too complex... I need a balance between simplicity and complexity. Both brands (BSS and Yamaha) got their more recent... Source: about 2 years ago

• Alpine Linux in the Browser

  How about any x86 OS in the browser, with JIT translation to WASM and including network access? https://copy.sh/v86/ To be fair, I believe Bellard's JS x86 emulator predates this (and WASM) by several years :). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Haiku R1/beta4 has been released

  Try it in the browser, new version should be available soon: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=haiku. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs

  > "despite not significantly changing in functionality since Windows 3.11." Here you can run Win 3.1 in a VM in your browser with a click: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows31 and Calculator is in accessories. Make sure to put it in View -> Scientific mode for a full comparison. Now launch Windows 10 Calculator, you'll see that it is resizable, Win 3.1 calulator can only be minimised. Win 10 shows Unicode... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago