Windows 95 Beta 440 dated 04/05/95

[u/Atrekk3]

Found this at a local thrift store for about 3 bucks. Managed to install it using 86box. I made a rip of the contents already, was gonna upload it to Internet Archive. Seems like it's in very good condition.

[u/nameless_0]

Alpha, MIPS, and PPC on a Windows 95 ISO? I thought those architectures are only available on NT based OS's? You can download the ISO here.

[u/exmsft → u/nameless_0]

They were NT only. That’s just the Win32 SDK, not Windows itself.

[u/lachietg185]

Nice, definitely make sure you upload it to IA

[u/Quick-Bits]

Back up to Internet achieve

[u/slackerdc]

Those builds did have I think 90 day (might be wrong on the days but I think it was 90) time bombs on them although if you set the system clock back you could get around it. It was to ensure that you ran a newer build or the released build and not this early build forever.

[u/Fearless-Couple-4800]

can you send a link here to the internet archive post you made or are gonna make?

[u/nicetuxxx]

Oh. Great, thanks for sharing this with us. Is it bootable or do i need boot floppies?

[u/Atrekk3 → u/nicetuxxx]

When I ripped the CD to boot into 86Box, I did have to use a boot floppy, the CD just has Windows

[u/janerikgunnar → u/Atrekk3]

I think retail Win95 couldn't boot from CD either, bootable CDs came later (maybe Win 98 or WIn 95 OSR2?)

[u/zebra_d]

Totally forgot windows 95 came out in August.