This made it difficult to accurately navigate my way around, move app windows, and access buttons. I found the mouse sensitivity inside the virtualised window to be a little off. JavaScript, man: is there anything it can’t do (other than run efficiently)? How well does it work?įirst thing first: booting is instant: you launch the app, tap esc, and the whole desktop is there, right in front of you, ready to go. What I found interesting (other than checking in on older versions of apps I haven’t used for the best part of a decade) is similar successive releases of Windows are to this formative version. Playing around with old versions of any operating system is always a hoot, even if you lack the “nostalgia” factor of having sampled it first time around.įor instance, I hadn’t ever used Windows 95 until I installed this app. But I have to admit that it runs far better than it probably should!

Felix says 99.999% of his “joke” effort is down to their work.Īdmittedly Felix’s Windows 95 electron app is more of a novelty showcase than a practical way to run the old school software.

Wondering how it’s possible to package and run an entire OS inside an Electron app? All props go to the v86 project, which promises “x86 virtualization in JavaScript, running in your browser and NodeJS”.

Windows 95 emulator tutorial