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Windows 1.01 in Your Browser

by eliyak on 5/11/15, 3:28 AM with 32 comments

  • by azakai on 5/11/15, 5:16 AM

    Nice!

    If you missed it, there was also a similar demo but with Windows 95 just a few days ago, http://win95.ajf.me/

  • by kristopolous on 5/11/15, 8:11 AM

    It's really fun to realize that the disks you load with all of DOS are about the size of a typical web asset.
  • by galago on 5/11/15, 5:11 AM

    The UI uses the "hamburger" element. I was surprised by that.
  • by agumonkey on 5/11/15, 9:37 AM

    Some things really stick in your mind. The pointer acceleration, icons, sandclock.

    It's funny that Paintbrush lost the constrained line drawing (no more guides), what a regression.

    Also, I laughed at the TODO list. todomvc.com has nothing on it.

  • by santaclaus on 5/11/15, 6:31 AM

    Sweet! I'm a bit sad that you don't get to launch Windows by typing 'win' and pressing enter.
  • by dom96 on 5/11/15, 11:38 AM

    I left it running in another tab and then it started beeping. Thought my PC was about to die.
  • by Zelphyr on 5/11/15, 2:38 PM

    The fact that they actually tried to compete with the Mac with this is amazing to me. And, as much as I dislike Microsoft products, you have to hand it to them; they persevered until they had a product that could compete. ...at least until OS X. (I couldn't resist)
  • by aceperry on 5/11/15, 7:01 AM

    It crashed or something. Glad it didn't take down my whole computer.
  • by xyby on 5/11/15, 6:37 AM

    C64 please!
  • by taejo on 5/11/15, 6:21 PM

    It crashes if you try to run an executable from DOS.
  • by brassattax on 5/11/15, 2:49 PM

    Can someone please do DeskMate?
  • by huyvun on 5/11/15, 6:02 AM

    Really good.