It’s been a few years since Microsoft’s desktop operating system, Windows 95, has seen any attention, so what better way to
get eyeballs back on it than to load it onto an Apple Watch ?
If you were born in the late 90s, you probably have no idea what windows 95 means or what it entails. Except you may have done some research on the evolution of the Windows Operating System before now.
Developer Nick Lee has taken the arduous task of putting an ancient desktop operating system on a brand new smartwatch, with
some rather interesting results. The first thing you’ll notice, as noted by The Verge ‘s new gadget-focused site, Circuit Breaker , is that it takes an hour to boot up
completely. The overall result is that Windows 95 on an Apple Watch is slow, but that it’s actually pretty functional.
The video was brought about by Nick Lee who we would say, had enough time in his hands. And of course, that was spectacular of him.
As you may have seen from the video, the User Interface was too small to be termed useful. Although the touchscreen at some point actually worked, we cannot term it as responsive. I mean, for the first few seconds, we could see him struggling to bring out the
start menu.
You may have seen the motor that kept touching the crown on the Apple Watch in the video, that is intended to make the screen not
turn off so that slow response time could be avoided.
You may be wondering how Nick Lee pulled that off. Well, he basically used a WatchKit app and was able to revise thereby allowing him to install the Bochs x86 emulator. NickLee posted some codes on GitHub just in case
you intend creating time to experiment on your Apple watch (Do so at your own risk).
get eyeballs back on it than to load it onto an Apple Watch ?
If you were born in the late 90s, you probably have no idea what windows 95 means or what it entails. Except you may have done some research on the evolution of the Windows Operating System before now.
Developer Nick Lee has taken the arduous task of putting an ancient desktop operating system on a brand new smartwatch, with
some rather interesting results. The first thing you’ll notice, as noted by The Verge ‘s new gadget-focused site, Circuit Breaker , is that it takes an hour to boot up
completely. The overall result is that Windows 95 on an Apple Watch is slow, but that it’s actually pretty functional.
The video was brought about by Nick Lee who we would say, had enough time in his hands. And of course, that was spectacular of him.
As you may have seen from the video, the User Interface was too small to be termed useful. Although the touchscreen at some point actually worked, we cannot term it as responsive. I mean, for the first few seconds, we could see him struggling to bring out the
start menu.
You may have seen the motor that kept touching the crown on the Apple Watch in the video, that is intended to make the screen not
turn off so that slow response time could be avoided.
You may be wondering how Nick Lee pulled that off. Well, he basically used a WatchKit app and was able to revise thereby allowing him to install the Bochs x86 emulator. NickLee posted some codes on GitHub just in case
you intend creating time to experiment on your Apple watch (Do so at your own risk).
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