You can play ‘Doom’ inside ‘Minecraft’ using a virtual PC

The quest to make devices play Doom has extended to gadgets inside other games. Reddit user uDrunkMate has succeeded (via The Verge) in playing Doom inside Minecraft thanks to a recently developed mod, VM Computers, that can run Windows 95 inside Moj...

Retro Soft Wear: Windows 95 Sweater

Are you a fan of Windows 95? Me too. I’ll never forget all of those crashes and BSODs. Good times. If you are a Windows devotee who looks back fondly on this OS, or if you need to give Bill Gates the perfect gift this Christmas season, check out this Windows 95 sweater.

Sadly, you can’t buy this in stores. It’s one of the ugly Windows 95 sweaters that Microsoft is giving away to lucky fans who have interacted with the company on Twitter and “shared their authentic love for Windows”.

Microsoft posted a tweet on Thursday announcing this Windows 95 “ugly” sweater giveaway and said that “fans” should check their direct-message inbox to see if they’ve been selected to receive a Windows 95 sweater. No luck so far here.

There are only 100 sweaters and many of these have already been given away. If you want one, I guess you better interact with the Windows Twitter page and tell them how cold you are without it. Although I’m not sure how cozy this would be since Windows 95 used to freeze so often. We may never know.

I have to admit, it is an looking awesome sweater though. Good luck getting one.

[via Business Insider via Geekologie]

WinPhone 95: If Microsoft Made a Windows 95 Smartphone

The smartphone era hasn’t been kind to Microsoft. From their clunky early Pocket PC-based devices, to the stillborn Microsoft Kin, to their too-little-too-late Windows Phone tie-up with Nokia, the company has tried and failed many times to stake a claim in a world dominated by Android and iOS. But what would a Windows phone have been like if Microsoft made one that ran its wildly popular Windows 95 operating system?

Thanks to UI/UX designer Henrique Perticarati, we now have our answer. He recently put together a series of images which envision what the WinPhone 95 might have looked like, along with some of its specs and features.

The chunky and awkward brick of a device is the antithesis to today’s ultra-thin smartphones, and features such wonders of technology as a 1.2 megapixels Sony Mavica camera, and a teensy trackball for navigating the Windows 95 interface. And yes, it has a headphone jack (and a microphone jack too.)

Speaking of ports, there’s no USB-C or HDMI here – just good old parallel and VGA outputs for connecting all of your peripherals. Sweet! Time to dust off that old dot-matrix printer so you can print some ASCII art.

Great job, Henrique! I’m hoping you do a whole series of retro-phones. How about an Atari ST phone, or maybe a Commodore 64 phone?

[via TechEBlog]

Smartwatch goes retro: smartwatch hack runs Windows 95

Smartwatch runs windows 95

If you ever feel like going back to the 90s, listen to grunge, and be amazed at just how many megabytes fit in a CD as opposed to a floppy disk, this hack is for you.

Who needs Android OS when you can straight up run classic Windows 95 on your smartwear and gadgets? Although not useful at all unless you want to run some classic games like Wing Commander or Ultima 7, the fact that it’s possible to just cram an old OS from 20 years ago in a smartwatch is commendable. See how it works in the video below these lines.

Via The Verge

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