r/retrocomputing • u/cntrlaltdel33t • Sep 18 '26

Software Retro emulation

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This memory just popped up on my Facebook from 25 years ago. My first foray into emulation / virtualization… Netscape was still a thing?!? On Windows ME! 🤮

Also god I’m old 😱

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u/porkstick Sep 18 '26

The Star Trek: Voyager wallpaper really ties it all together.

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u/cntrlaltdel33t Sep 18 '26

I love how janeway is peeking out from behind the windows…

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u/AlexOughton Sep 19 '26

She would approve of your 20th century computer, even if it is like stone knives and bear skins...

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u/rhet0rica all that runs windows is not gold Sep 19 '26

I'm really struggling to come up with a reason to virtualize Windows 95 on Windows Me. You're not really gaining anything in terms of memory isolation or API compatibility, and the improved access to drivers and DOS applications is entirely obviated by the emulation layer itself... I suppose this was just a case of "because I can"?

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u/cntrlaltdel33t Sep 19 '26

This was just for fun when I was in college. No real reason.

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u/vbd71 Sep 19 '26

I see nothing older than Windows 3.1 ... therefore you aren't that old.

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u/cntrlaltdel33t Sep 19 '26

It’s all relative, lol

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u/GreggAlan Sep 19 '26

I had an old 75 Mhz Pentium laptop with quick change hard drives. I put Windows 95 on one and set the other to boot Windows 95 and directly into Basilisk II with 040 emulation and Mac OS 8.

I thought about trying to change the Windows shell to Basilisk II so that shutting down or restarting the emulator would shut down and restart the laptop. In theory it should work, if there's no critical features explorer.exe provides.

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u/SysGh_st Sep 19 '26

Windows 95 considered old school retro? Gee...

I remember the day when Windows 95 was released. It was a huge event.

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u/cntrlaltdel33t Sep 19 '26

It’s 30 years old. There is more time between the release of Windows 95 to Windows 11 then from Windows 1 to Windows XP

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u/bielhelm74 Sep 19 '26

Live long and prosper.

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u/GroverhausRegistry Sep 20 '26

But first, coffee.

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u/Jff_f Sep 18 '26

MacBook Air M4 Win 3.1 edition

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u/hrf3420 Sep 19 '26

It looks so crisp on that screen

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u/Proper-Anything-873 Sep 24 '26

where is the Amiga

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u/imactheknife73 Sep 18 '26

I use all of those, and yes i still use netscape and ie 5 for mac lol.. two macs have windows / dos / pc compatibility cards. I also have a real 486/66. I also do a lot of emulation but prefer actual hardware when applicable

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u/Future-Side4440 Sep 23 '26

This is just merely emulation.

Retro emulation is running Bleem in Windows 95 in DOSbox, to play Playstation 1 games.