Tuesday Fright Video: Windows 95 Ported to iPhone
I forget if this brings us 4 minutes to midnight or only 5 on the official app-ocalypse clock, but duck and cover because Windows 95 has been ported to run on an iPhone.
Ish. Gizmodo, via GoodiPhone, has the deets:
The hack makes use of a standard Windows 95 image and the Bochs emulator, though as you can expect, the performance is thoroughly crummy. They’re working on getting Windows XP to work too. An abomination, I say.
So say we all.
But hey, at least it wasn’t Windows ME…
July 13th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I guess its cool, kinda like playing atari games on the ps3!
July 13th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Is it really a port? Or is it just running under an emulator?
My understanding was you couldn’t port what you don’t have source code for, because you need to recompile.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Try it on a 3GS?
July 14th, 2009 at 12:21 am
That aint a mac hes running. Anybody got guides on running the os x on a pc?
July 14th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Would of been better had it of crashed.
July 14th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I don’t understand win 95 on an iPhone???, does that mean I could run photoshop (early version) on an iPhone? And unreal tournament, doom etc?
July 14th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Why port Windows 95 to an iPhone?
“Because we can!”
Loved this.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:18 am
What about Vista ..it does not work well on PC may become instant hit on iPhone…Ha ha..
July 14th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Didn’t someone make an app similar to thiss around April of this year? Then it turned out it was an April fools joke. Maybe this is real. Although, I don’t know why someone would want to use windows on such a heavenly device???
July 14th, 2009 at 7:05 am
@conor
Yeah its a mac… see the word “Macbook” on the side?
July 14th, 2009 at 7:05 am
And this is how people want to spend their lives?
July 14th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Why does the screen NOT MATCH whats on the phone?
July 14th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Now port android or webos.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am
How does one hit control-alt-delete on an iPhone running Win-95 or any version for that matter?
July 14th, 2009 at 10:11 am
@The Reptile
BSODs only happen when people mix old *** hardware with advanced copies of Windows, either that or they just don’t know what they are doing. Don’t act like OSX isn’t bloated, locks up, or isn’t slow because it is and does. Snow Kitty wont be any better.
Win7 is where its at.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Will it run Office 95? It booted Windows faster than my 486 ever did!
July 14th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
@Conor - I use this for work and it works quite well, seriously makes my life so much easier.
I just have the dock installed, but theres 100s of add-ins
rocketdock dot com
July 14th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Who for the love of leprechauns would want this **** anyway………