10 Classic Operating Systems You Can Run in Your Web Browser

Using classic Operating Systems can be very nostalgic and great fun, but setting them up on original hardware or emulation can be a huge hassle. I explore 10 classic operating systems you can run directly in your web browser with no setup required!

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[deltaray]

Back in 1997 when I was working tech support for an ISP. I made a backend support website that simulated 4 different OSes using screenshots and image maps. It simulated Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS 8 I think. It worked well for the other support techs to be able to reference different OSes of the time for helping people get connected. I have it somewhere on a backup, maybe if people are interested I could show it in a video or put it somewhere.

[Administrator_O-]

Dan, I'm a former Network Engineer, I graduated high-school on May 28, 1995 & began career working full-time as a Computer Tech on August 15, 1995, eventually working my way up to Network Engineer by 2000. Your channel is extremely valuable & brilliant. Thank you for making this video.

[ActionRetro]

Well there goes my afternoon. I didn't know PCJS had all of this stuff!

[rogerlawrence]

Thanks for that. I missed a whole day of writing, playing Quake. But it was worth it.

[haurenox]

My first OS was Windows 95, I have to admit I'm always submerged with nostalgia when I see videos about it. Using a computer back then felt magical especially when the only experience I had with them as a kid was with Amstrad CPC, the interactivity of modern OSes was just mind blowing. Great era for technology and computer enthusiasts.

[Studulikeuk]

It's crazy to think you can actually run EmuOS on a phone. Actually I have tested all of these and to an extent they all work. Generally screen sizes are an issue as some things display off screen a little.
How times have changed. Great video!

[rmhartman]

QNX was a fantastic OS for embedded real time process control. Note: I was using it before they added a GUI, and before they started becoming unix-compliant with their system calls. I wrote my own, rather minimal, windowing interface to use with the raw graphics for an application I was writing at the time. Micro-kernel, damn fast event response time, but able to use higher level language (e.g. C, and IIRC even C++) rather than just assembly.

[metalheadmalta]

Spent the morning playing Quake 1 !!!! you, sir, are a bad influence! Love it! :-)

[lilmsgs]

I had about a dozen amigas about 20 years ago, rendering video toaster, Lightwave, et al for a little business I had. As you know, nothing on the market at that price/desktop capability could match the capability. I used to work for DEC as a VMS/Ultrix systems engineer. The AmigaOS was very VMS-like. It was great.

[radrup]

I feel like a wormholes opened up and took me wayyy back to my early days .. what a trip!! Thank you Dan 👍🏽

[mccstuff]

Surprising to me how quickly I picked up using an Amiga OS again and how similar it is in many ways to Windows today. Thanks, I enjoyed that.

[richardharding]

Wow what a great step back in time, and as you say in the video, we can trace some "today"windows programs back to the 1990's.

[azstraphsterling]

This is awesome. Never knew they had converted a bunch of these OS to run off the browser like this.

[allannyholmnielsen]

Excellent! Thanks, Dan. Really love the EmuOS one... the TAWS one is a gem also of course. Amiga :D

[Krashulka]

The Amiga was amazing in its day, sadly crap company policies and bad marketing of the Amiga killed it in the end. As a gaming / gfx pc, it was miles ahead of any other home pc at the time.

[fordgary]

MAN THIS DEMONSTRATION OR THE VIDEO LOOKS REALLY SODAMN GOOD AND AWESOME FOLKS.

[mrs]

Win 95 was my first OS that I used on the first computer that I bought myself back in the day. I did have some minor experience of using a computer before (C64, my friend's Amiga, PC clones at school etc.), but Win 95 really brought computing to my everyday daily life in a whole new way.

[jaydub]

I absolutely, positively am SO glad I found your channel! This is the kind of stuff I love!

[СергейД-чь]

Absolutely like you! My first graphic OS was Windows 3.1. back in 1993. Before that since my first job in 1990 I had been using DOS only PCs.

[joeharley]

Always a highlight of my week when you upload Dan! Loving the OS videos at the moment.