If you have a relative who would benefit from a Pi but is used to the Windows interface then I would suggest finding a Windows-like skin for the Linux desktop, the result will be far more useful. Forget it, Windows 95 barely supports it. It's slow, buggy, insecure and incapable of running many things we now take for granted. So you probably wouldn't give them the OS it came with. Would you buy your relatives a 486DX2-66 with 16Mb of memory now, in 2012? Of course not. And thirdly, Windows 95 is now not far off twenty years old. That means it's never going to be quick in any sense of the word. Secondly, it's in a 1990s PC emulated on a Pi. This is not a redistributable piece of software. Firstly, you need to own a Windows 95 licence to do it. As I said, 'You've seen an open OS on your Pi, now here's a wide-open one!' A tempting idea, but this is something of a curiosity and a joke, and will always remain so. A much faster result could probably have been achieved had I compiled the SVGAlib package and run it without X, but this was more a demonstration for the laughs than practicality. I used the X-windows Bochs display library, so the Debian desktop was always present in the background of the Windows 95 session. The Pi has no CD-ROM drive and I didn't fancy trying to extract the ISO file to do the task. I installed Windows 95 from the CD that came with a laptop in the '90s to a 100Mb Bochs hard disk image on my desktop PC and transferred it to the Pi on a USB disk. ![]() Anyway, a few tech details.īochs is in the Debian repository, so a simple apt-get installed it. ![]() I can think of no practical application for Windows 95 on a Pi, but it is not impossible that perhaps someone might have to run a piece of legacy DOS software somewhere and might find Bochs a useful means to do it. ![]() It was just about usable, despite no effort having gone in to tuning the Bochs setup. My apologies to the mods if this is not entirely on-topic for this particular forum, I ran Windows 95 in a Bochs virtual x86 machine over Debian rather than as a Pi operating system in its own right. This was at the same time a joke and a serious demonstration of the Pi's capability. Last night saw the 3rd Oxford Raspberry Jam meetup, and I was able to demonstrate my Pi running Windows 95. Bochs IA-32 Emulator provides a virtual PC that can run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and BSD. Win 95/98/XP and Linux OSs (Knoppix/Ubuntu/Redhat etc). Download BOCHS for Android Download the SDL. Iso) image c installation disk Windows XP.
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