Windows 95 launched on Apple Watch

The operating system Windows 95 on anything just run. It was launched in the browser, on various smartphones, with the help of an emulator - and on a smart watch with Android Wear. Now it's Apple Watch. In fact, the characteristics of the clock - 520 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, 8 GB of main memory, several times exceed the recommended requirements for installing this OS. Therefore, the developer Nick Lee decided to try to run Windows 95 on this device.

In the end, everything turned out, and the system is interactive, you can work with it, and not just watch the boot screen, as it usually happens in such cases. True, to install third-party software on the clock the developer had to tinker, bypassing the limitations of Apple. As a result, after modifying the application development environment for WatchOS, everything turned out.


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How this can be done, the developer recommends that you look at your colleague in this post . The source code Nick posted on github .



Another complication is that the clock display turns off if it is not used. Nick even had to invent a special device, which activated the digital clock crown to activate the display. The final development turned out to be interesting - all the menus work, many functions of the system are also active. However, due to the fact that all this is emulated, the OS is loaded for a very long time - about an hour. Yes, and the work of Windows 95 on the Apple Watch can not be called superfast.