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Thanks, man! Thanks a lot!!",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"17827885","lenova","This has made my day.",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"17827860","smpetrey","This is simply delicious.",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"17827904","igolden","\"Should this have been a native app?\" - \"Absolutely\" lol. love it. Brings back all the nostalgia.",{"value":87,"source":57,"evidence":88},"Native-looking UI in an Electron app",[89],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"17827926","alxlaz","Glad to see an Electron application that finally has a decent, native-looking, unsurprising UI :-). (Edit: sadly, I'm only half-joking. 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I just want to open aol, geocities, altavista may be?",{"value":117,"source":57,"evidence":118},"Restarting from Start Menu breaks it",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"17828062","graycrow","I just restarted it via Start Menu and it won't start anymore. Bug?",[124,131,142],{"value":125,"source":57,"evidence":126},"Add classic macOS versions",[127],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"17828455","tambourine_man","I’d love a version of this running classic macOS versions (7,8 and 9)",{"value":132,"source":57,"evidence":133},"Support for Windows 98 or Win 3.x",[134,138],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"17827961","bevenky","Win 98 next!",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"17828961","digi_owl","I think you would be better off getting Windows 3.x going in Dosbox.",{"value":143,"source":57,"evidence":144},"Ability to copy files into the VM",[145,149],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"17828054","johnhattan","I'd love to try out some old 16-bit and\u002For MS-DOS games on it. But I don't see a way to copy files into its sandbox. Anyone had any luck doing this?",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"17829734","sp332","Yeah you can add drive to the array at the top of https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Ffelixrieseberg\u002Fwindows95\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Fsrc\u002Frenderer\u002Frenderer.js So build an ISO using imgburn or something and…",[154,165],{"value":155,"source":57,"evidence":156},"Is Windows 95 copyright still in force?",[157,161],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"17828096","jacob019","Has Win95's copyright expired?",{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"17828843","Liquid_Fire","It's more than just \"a couple of decades\", it's 70 years.",{"value":166,"source":57,"evidence":167},"What is the practical purpose?",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"17827924","AdmiralAsshat","There should be some practical purpose for this, like some Win-95 only app I loved from my childhood that I can now experience again. But I struggle to think of any.",[173,180,187],{"value":174,"source":57,"evidence":175},"DOSBox and Windows 3.x",[176,177],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},{"id":178,"by":140,"text":179},"17828964","Dosbox?",{"value":181,"source":57,"evidence":182},"Online Windows 95 at win95.ajf.me",[183],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"17834978","niutech","What is a rationale for an Electron app when there has long been an online version of Windows 95? https:\u002F\u002Fwin95.ajf.me",{"value":188,"source":57,"evidence":189},"Anvil and Lazarus IDE for VB-style building",[190,194],{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"17828053","meredydd","> give me Visual Basic 6's UI builder and all the greatness of a 21st century machine, so that I could finally whip up an UI without yelling profanities at the CSS reference…",{"id":195,"by":147,"text":196},"17828140","Also the Lazarus Pascal IDE is still around and is keeping the old-school VB flame alive. 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