bsod.win - homage to win95 era
Every bug must look intentional. How many hidden stuff and easter eggs have you discovered?
u/Separate_Effective56 — 14 hours ago
r/windows95
▲ 80 r/windows95
Help connecting Windows 95 to Internet??
I understand Internet is far more advanced now and my computer can most like only accommodate old html websites but I'm curious if it's possible at all. I want to install windows 98 on my computer but it requires internet to do so. I'm still pretty new to all this so be patient with me.
u/vintagekittyycat — 7 days ago
MSN (Microsoft Network)
Is it possible to install and run MSN (Microsoft Network) launched in August 1995 alongside Windows 95. I want to experience “Comic Chat” which was the built-in graphical chat client officially called Microsoft Comic Chat that rendered your IRC conversations as comic-strip panels with cartoon avatars, complete with speech bubbles and gestures based on the emotional tone of what you typed. It was a genuinely clever piece of software!
u/ManPlansGdLaughs — 7 days ago
▲ 8 r/windows95
Looking for... (circa 1998)
Good day, everyone!
Kind of a weird post, but some nostalgia hit me the other night on yt, so I figured I'd give this a shot.
Circa 1998 I was a freshman in high school, and my old school district had software that was an overlay for windows 95. It was its own sign in system, loading screen, and "desktop" that resembled a classroom. The loading screen for logging in was a picture of a hallway, like walking down the hall of the school (original, right?) and everything that we students were allowed to use was in a virtual classroom, where you clicked on something and it pulled up that program. I.e., if you wanted to search for something, you clicked on books and it gave you the website for encyclopedias.
This software also allowed for teachers to access the true win95 desktop.
Would anyone know the name, or better, the software that I'm looking for, to relive my old days, and to scratch this itch? :)
Thank you in advance!
u/Ok_Lychee_5990 — 8 days ago
Garageband in older Windows?
I originally thought this was just a cool custom video made to look like Garageband in retro Windows aesthetic but I came across this video and it turns out Microsoft actually released an early procedural music generator in 1997!
If you're into retro tech and audio/visual design, definitely check out her channel @harkesworld on YouTube.
u/joolsjopss — 10 days ago
Questions on restoring Libretto 70ct to OEM win 95 using a CF card
Hello all! It’s time to swap out my spinning rust for solid state. I’ve made a win 98 boot floppy and have found a 70ct recovery disc on internet archive. When downloading it, my computer flags it as a virus which I believe is wrong. You can find it here:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78039
Will the download just be an iso that I can drag to my cf card which will go in place of my hdd, boot from the floppy, and install OEM win 95? Or are there more steps?
Also, I’ve tried booting freedos from this industrial cf card, but the libretto doesn’t see it. Can we confirm that this cf card is a fixed disk card, and therefore bootable?
Thanks!!
u/The_Jwh4 — 11 days ago
▲ 17 r/windows95
Found some old software in a shop.
I have found two CD-Roms for An old windows version, Should I archive them? or share photos of them first? I wouldn’t know if they were lost media or something. The software is called:
Colossus Chess 2000
Microsoft Encarta-96 Encyclopaedia.
Help needed. Thank You
u/Ok-Recover7069 — 14 days ago