Nostalgia and good memories for some, nightmares and torture for others. Microsoft's operating systems were a true hurricane in the '90s, and if we had to place one above the rest (with the probable exception of MS-DOS), it's the second edition of Windows 98. Anyone who wants to revisit that system once more can do so directly from your browser, thanks to the magic of emulation.
Windows 98 Second Edition was released on May 5, 1999, just a year after the original edition, and for many it was a kind of glorified Service Pack with many fixes. Those users determined to have an adventure of 'digital archaeology' will be surprised to know that on the Web there are unofficial Service Packs to 'update' this aging operating system and get the best possible performance from old computers. The alternative to all this work is emulation, and that leads us to revisit Copy's Home page, where we saw the first version of Windows emulated.
The Windows 98 SE session presented by the emulator is undoubtedly complete, and includes a copy of the classic Minesweeper, a temptation that many people will not be able to resist. The screen works at 800 by 600 pixels with a 24-bit palette, but don't expect any kind of acceleration here. In fact, the session is very slow, and demands patience.
Any attempt to run the browser (Internet Explorer 5!) will probably end in an error, not only because the Web has changed a lot over the years, but also because the MSN Internet Access wizard takes several minutes to open, and insists on asking for a telephone modem configuration.
I am convinced that the average user will get a much more complete experience if they take a computer from the time (maybe a Pentium MMX or its AMD equivalent) and install Windows 98 SE from scratch, but this emulator is enough to satisfy our curiosity, and confirm that some things are much easier today.
Fortunately, the site that presents this emulation does not start or end with Windows 98. If you want to keep exploring the vaults of retro computing, you can try ReactOS, Windows 95, FreeBSD, Oberon, Arch Linux, KolibriOS, Windows 1.01, FreeDOS, among others.
https://old.neoteo.com/windows-95-online-y-en-tu-navegador/
