Windows 95 emulated in the browser via DOSBox

by: Microsoft Corporation

Publication date: 1995

Topics: MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows, PC, Operating System, Windows, Windows 95, PC

Language: English

Compact pre-installed Windows 95 hard disk image and AUTOEXEC.BAT file packaged for DOSBox, which runs in the browser thanks to hard work of contributors to Em-DOSBox, DOSBox, Emscripten, and web browser engines.

This was originally hosted at win95.ajf.me, a site created by myself in May 2015, and inspired by the Internet Archive's DOS game emulation efforts (and using the same tech). Now it's on the Internet Archive itself. You can still go to that site if you want to know more about how this was done.

Addeddate: 2021-03-26 18:21:09

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: AUTOEXEC.BAT

Identifier: win95_in_dosbox

Reviews allowed: frozen

Scanner: Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4

Year: 1995

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Reviewer: hitherelol - - August 7, 2023
Subject: lol

i tried con/con and my rel pc deid lol

Reviewer: Robbie Rockhill - - July 16, 2023
Subject: good

couldnt run inernet explorer and cant get 256 color or higher without breaking and cant figure out how to get games on it

Reviewer: EmmyMalware666 - - July 12, 2023
Subject: It's good

Well it kind of lags, but there is no problems with the emulator. But the audio lags a tiny bit, but not really that much. It's good if you don't want to install VirtualBox or VMware.

Reviewer: NIKOLAI115 - - July 11, 2023
Subject: I think its cool but its slow but for a iso download its cool

I think Microsoft with this is so cool good job

Reviewer: Zac Pantalone - - June 28, 2023
Subject: Fun Stuff

Was fun but easy to crash and no Weezer?

Reviewer: pussySlayer101214 - - June 27, 2023
Subject: to every kid cusring s at each other s

hey kids you now what ?

sh
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up

just shut up god dmanit

Reviewer: cvmplus - - June 17, 2023
Subject: boreing bc of beer what beer fuck you forkiewim8fag.

NIGGA BITCH

Reviewer: AfanLikesOldPhonesAndTheBerenstAinBears.ItisAnotE - - May 29, 2023
Subject: To xxx-pau-xxx

Fuck you. You are a menace to society. I hope you stub your toe every day. I hope your family moves away from you because you keep using the old Vista PC in the garage. You are a whore. I hope for the rest of your life you get up and get dizzy. I hope you eat expired medicine. I hope you become Kenny but only the parts where he dies. I want you to feel pain. I hope your pillow is warm on both sides. I hope your blanket has 12 sides. You are probably mad at me, getting saliva on your Comfort Curve you stole from a school, while using your HP branded mouse you found next to yo- i mean a trash can.

OK, finally that is done. Anyways, I have used this SO MANY TIMES. It is perfect for anything.

Reviewer: mmmjjjttt - - May 20, 2023
Subject: Not bad ... Good for what it can do.

Good for running some programs that won't run on Windows 3.1.
Not enough HD space, so I created 1GB virtual HD and injected it into the file, using winimage.
You can run programs that need 256 colors by searching Google to download vbemp.inf. Put the file in your virtual drive, right click on the Windows 95 desktop, click settings, click change display type, click change adapter, click have disk, and look for the vbemp.inf file to install. Now you can run those programs that need 256 colors.

Reviewer: tailsfnf2 - - May 8, 2023
Subject: not working

without waiting it won't work

Reviewer: Alexander Beaven - - May 2, 2023
Subject: .......

IT CRASHED

Reviewer: manman21 - - April 20, 2023
Subject: wow

I GOT A REAL BLUE SCREEN ON THIS

Reviewer: Astra100 - - April 14, 2023
Subject: it crashed

It crased everytime I log on to desktop

Reviewer: Nenad Cvijic474 - - April 9, 2023
Subject: Awesome!

I like the idea of Windows 95 on DOSBox but theres one problem that I cant seem to figure out. It keeps on crashing when I try to boot up Internet Explorer.

Reviewer: Anonymous - - April 4, 2023
Subject: 👍

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Reviewer: FastAttack - - March 5, 2023
Subject: Very Cool Windows 95

It looks like windows 95 the only downside is that it's slow to boot up

Reviewer: JEFFERY SMITH229 - - January 26, 2023
Subject: easy to crash

it crashes on cromeos

Reviewer: Noah Babbs - - January 19, 2023
Subject: Its like the real windows 95

is so real so i can play a trick on everyone that i download windows 95

Reviewer: Ntcool - - January 10, 2023
Subject: Reply to slash_raptor

Install windows 95 in a virtual machine and then rip the files from the cd to your vm

Reviewer: Slash_Raptor - - January 9, 2023
Subject: How do I copy games from my PC to the emulator?

Is there a way to transfer files on my PC to the emulator? I can't figure out how to get DOS Box to play the old PC game ROMs I have, so I'm looking for a work around.

Reviewer: Gavin160 - - January 8, 2023
Subject: Easy to crash

This is really hard not to brick. Otherwise, it's great.

Reviewer: Eren Arslan (istilaciuzayli) - - December 31, 2022
Subject: microsoft scandisk problem

when i try to open w95 . a green,black screen appears
its crashes everytime

Reviewer: JSR08 - - December 15, 2022
Subject: Works well on chromebook.

You need to delete the sites cookies before running.

Reviewer: WILLIAM POWERS749 - - December 15, 2022
Subject: it lags

its pretty laggy on a chromebook, but still runs.

Reviewer: muhamed dayh - - December 7, 2022
Subject: how to reset?

If i wanted to reset the OS how can I?

Reviewer: Thewolfguy - - December 5, 2022
Subject: wow cool

hi i love win 95 this is amzing !!!!

Reviewer: Adriel Filemon Komala - - November 25, 2022
Subject: Windows 95

Windows 95 is good because it has that old classic window
talking about nostalgia that stupid paUlAfOx should be removed.

Reviewer: Jack Scott-Say - - November 17, 2022
Subject: bricking

please fix the bricking when I power on

Reviewer: arthur2012 - - November 10, 2022
Subject: Re: help

Just clear your cookies. Once you notice you got logged out, just log in again using the credentials you remember

Reviewer: SILVINA DEVITO - - November 9, 2022
Subject: stuck

bruh this gets stuck every 2x3

Reviewer: AyoNostalgiaCheck - - October 27, 2022
Subject: Easily corrupts self, but sometimes works

Sometimes it automatically opens scandisk and says I have to restart the emulator, but it works sometimes.

Reviewer: Type-Error - - October 1, 2022
Subject: Thank you for making this!!!

This thing saves my Half-Life Uplink GoldSrc version.

Reviewer: OldGuy985 - - September 22, 2022
Subject: Aaronk6

Did you get a "Emulation aborted due to nested emulation timeout."?

Reviewer: Lestat Navarrete-Gonzalez - - September 19, 2022
Subject: Where

Where's the internet explorer on windows 95 or else to download windows 10

Reviewer: GTAIV - - September 17, 2022
Subject: help

/its good but i deleted the windows folder and now it cant boot

Reviewer: 77Pacer - - September 4, 2022
Subject: Nostalgia

Brings back TOONS of memories! Thanks for the nostalgia!

Reviewer: John R.12 - - August 22, 2022
Subject: Using Dosbox-X Want to install programs through ISO

Could've added 1GB of virtual space to the img file... Would've saved me HOURS of time

Reviewer: aaronk6 - - August 18, 2022
Subject: WordPad freezes

Pretty impressive that we can now run a whole OS within the browser.

But it freezes when I try to open WordPad :( Just me?

Reviewer: Anonymous - - August 10, 2022
Subject: Reply to CallenDV

hello, your mouse does not sync because the emulator resolution is different.

is crashing because we're trying run windows 95 on 2022, i really like this emulator.

Reviewer: SunnyD Studios - - July 13, 2022
Subject: glitch

this isnt really much of a review its more like a glitch point-out

so how do you fix the screen being stuck on scandisk.

Reviewer: Jacob Hache - - May 26, 2022
Subject: Yea It Crashes sometimes, But it's in your web browser!

There's kinda lag, but that's because it's windows 95 trying to run in 2022. One thing i've noticed is it crashes when you set the date anywhere past 1999. i also tried to switch to a 256 colour palette, but it froze up. overall, four out of five stars.
U P D A T E ! : I also later found Internet explorer, but when I clicked the icon, and acknowledged the pop-up box, it crashed.
please fix it.

a n d a n o t h e r t h i n g : Why is that each time I boot up the emulator, I have to run Microsoft ScanDisk? It starts getting old and annoying after a while. If you could fix this problem, I'd be grateful For life.
P.S. to all the people who are saying "it's Slow": Windows 95 itself wasn't all that fast!!!

Reviewer: Logan Carey - - April 24, 2022
Subject: glitchy

Now when ever it boots up, the whole screen is glitchy and there is a black box over the cursor, if you could look into it I would be very grateful

Reviewer: Brody Mahon - - April 12, 2022
Subject: Honestly, Stinks my baby

This made my baby eat coke

Reviewer: HappySwordsman - - April 12, 2022
Subject: Okay

Not great emulation to be honest, but I was super bored today and it kept me amused for a while. I played the classic Solitaire game but sadly I lost each time :-)

Reviewer: DEV CODER - - March 25, 2022
Subject: To get out of this sys simply press windows key.

To get out of this sys simply press windows key.

Reviewer: Zackary Dakota Maiatico - - March 7, 2022
Subject: lol

it crashes with anything of the word internet

Reviewer: Olddantrucker - - March 1, 2022
Subject: PLEASE use PCEM (latest version available) for actual heavy use of Windows 95 up to 2000/ME. This is meant to be a joke on purpose!

In other words for those who have various issues with this please FOR HEAVEN SAKES PLEASE use PCEM V17 instead of this,

Get the bios master pack/make a file called (Roms) then paste all the bios in there THEN PCEM will turn on so you can configure a new virtual machine:

When you do that try starting out with a Socket 7 Pentium 200ish as most low end PC's can handle that especially emulating 95 as 98 is more of a resource hog.

The web deb clearly wanted this to be a joke OS just for shits and giggles and it worked. Too many people are taking a joke hobby too seriously.

Reviewer: Henry Smith351 - - February 3, 2022
Subject: my sis crashed

i wanted to go online but my computer crashed

Reviewer: Bence Kovács - - February 2, 2022
Subject: bro how to leave

bro how to leave

Reviewer: ArchiverUser_326841 - - January 20, 2022
Subject: 640x480x16 Colors to 800x600x256 Colors

They need to fix when applying to 800x600 with 256 colors

Reviewer: Minifreak394 - - January 8, 2022
Subject: Laggy :(

I love the emulator but it lags a lot so, could you fix it please?

Reviewer: Bright_obsidian - - January 7, 2022
Subject: booting up

my emulator dosent load now

Reviewer: Toyrism 11 - - December 29, 2021
Subject: :)

i love it but change the year to 1999 so windows 95 don't crash

Reviewer: Friday Funkin9 De Sousa - - December 28, 2021
Subject: Problem

Only 1 star cuz my Windows 95 does't work correctly, also my mouse does't work :(

Reviewer: Geno1024 - - December 13, 2021
Subject: Epic

For those who found it crashes "sometimes", try to adjust the system time in Windows 95 to the olde time, for example year 1999. Then the crash may be fixed.

Reviewer: Amir Bolhar - - September 30, 2021
Subject: it good

its crash's randomly

Reviewer: Anonymous - - September 29, 2021
Subject: mouse don't work

Mouse doesn't move even when I click I don't work :I

Reviewer: Bezi621 - - September 29, 2021
Subject: crash

it crashes for start up for me

Reviewer: dorker831 - - September 19, 2021
Subject: epic

nice but looks like the os the same

Reviewer: Luke GamingBoi - - September 9, 2021
Subject: Its Great!

It is very great but when i try to open up Control Panel it just doesnt lag the emulator, but it lags my whole pc then freezes the emulator

Reviewer: operation420.net - - August 17, 2021
Subject: How do you stop it from capturing the mouse?

The emulator grabs my mouse cursor so I cannot use it in the host OS/browser. I had to use keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs. Is there a better way or "host" key?

Reviewer: CRAFTIONAL - - August 11, 2021
Subject: error when entering internet explorer

Hi, this windows 95 emulator is cool but when I try to enter internet explorer it freezes. I would like you to correct this error

Reviewer: CallenDV - - August 5, 2021
Subject: Good!

Honestly, its good! But the mouse did not sync.
I hope you can fit that in the future.

Reviewer: Anonymous - - August 2, 2021
Subject: Lag in this senerio

It lagged in these emulated windows 95 Idk why but this is cool this emulated Windows 95 I'm using an old pc tho hope you fix it bye.

Reviewer: scrface122 - - August 1, 2021
Subject: keeps crashing

for some reason it crashes but it is good

Reviewer: Rafaelms - - June 12, 2021
Subject: almost every time it crashes

the emulator is great. but for some reason, whenever I'm moving, out of nowhere it crashes, and with that I always need to refresh the page to turn on the emulator again.
would it be possible to fix this failure?

Reviewer: Dominijan - - June 8, 2021
Subject: terrible

i am sad because my life is terrible, but the emulator is good tho

Reviewer: VEE_H - - May 27, 2021
Subject: Windows running inside my web browser

This is a technical marvel. I can even run Windows 95 on my fridge.

Reviewer: nara.gov - - April 21, 2021
Subject: Really cool -- Has some negatives

I want to start off by saying that this is awesome, I can't believe that someone managed to create an entire working windows 95 computer online. This is so much fun to just mess around on and get a taste of what they back in 1995 had to use. It does tend to take a while to boot up and sometimes crashes at random, but aside from that, it's really amazing and I would certainly recommend it to anyone.

Reviewer: Mo Rafiee - - April 19, 2021
Subject: this is very cool!

its very impressive.

Reviewer: Jax TheDemon - - April 3, 2021
Subject: I think it crashed?

so I opened internet explorer in the emulator and it froze. . it stopped working, I don't know if this is a problem with it or its just intentional or if it did something but I didn't know.

Reviewer: Marcus Vazquez - - March 29, 2021
Subject: fun!

so cool to do retro stuff

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