Launch Windows 95 on Nintendo 3DS? Yes it is possible

If you want to return to the time when MS Paint and Internet Explorer 1.0 reigned on personal computers, then you can not invent a time machine. It is enough to just install Windows 95 on your portable Nintendo 3DS console. In one of the posts on the Game Boy forum, the “retronaut” posted screenshots and videos demonstrating the operation of the mentioned OS.

When asked why they did something similar, a user with the nickname Shutterbug2000 replied that he simply wanted to do it. To run Windows 95, an x86 emulator was used.



In addition to screenshots, the user posted a video on YouTube. Shows the Windows 95 boot screen and Scandisk. The video, however, stops even before the desktop appears.

The user posted and the code he wrote to run Windows 95, this code can be found here. Other users have already confirmed that it all works, the project is not a hoax.

There are disadvantages, of course. For example, the performance of the entire system is poor. It’s also difficult now to understand how you can learn to control the cursor using the console display sensor.