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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Sat Apr 30, 2016, 06:41 PM Apr 2016

Hacker puts Windows 95 on Apple Watch for some reason

http://www.cultofmac.com/425880/hacker-puts-windows-95-on-apple-watch-for-some-reason/?utm_campaign=hacker-puts-windows-95-on-apple-watch-for-some-reason&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

We’ve seen a lot of people do a lot of things with Apple’s debut wearable, but one hacker wasn’t satisfied merely to summon the ghosts of ancient first-party mobile and desktop operating systems. No, hacker Nick Lee set himself the goal of putting the venerable Windows 95 on Apple Watch.

Lee set out on the project out of nostalgia for the computer he grew up with in the ’90s (oh, kids), and he succeeded by patching some files in the native WatchKit development framework to sneak in his own app. In this case, that app was the 20-year-old disk image. And it works, provided you have a bit of time to wait for the new system to boot up.

Seriously, it takes a while. See it in action in the video below.

The first thing you’ll notice is that this is a time-lapse video, and the reason for that is kind of hilarious. As Lee explains in a Medium post about the project, “Due to the fact that it is emulated (not virtualized), it takes about an hour to boot.”