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Back in August 2023, Windows 95 became 28 years old. Official support for Windows 95 ended in 2001, to be replaced by Windows 98, then Windows XP, then Windows Vista. (Oof.) We’ve previously ...
You can now relive all your Windows 95 nostalgia through an app designed to run on your new Windows 10, MacOS, or Linux computer. Created by a Slack developer, the app allows you to run popular ...
We should point out upfront that Windows Classic Remastered isn't an actual operating system - it's just a concept video created by a YouTuber (who has done plenty of these sorts of efforts in the ...
If you played video games in the days of Windows 95, watching this video will immediately bring back a sense of nostalgia as you listen to the MIDI music playing in the background. Albacore also ...
TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.
Though it was often cloaked by a wonderful blue sky full of fluffy clouds, the absolutely hideous puke-green-not-quite-teal color used by Windows 95 for its default background has long baffled me.
Long File Names Windows 95 also took away the file name limit of Windows 3.0. Users could now run wild with long, descriptive file names making it that much easier to locate a file.
I seem to recall the Windows 95/98 background being slightly different in 16-color VGA mode (a slightly lighter shade) than 256-color (or higher) modes, so I don't think it's part of the standard ...