Instead of coding apps to check for Windows 95 or Windows 98, developers coded instructions to check for “Windows 9.” That made sense since there were only two versions of Windows that had a ...

Essentially, Faulds used the popular DOS emulator DOSBox to boot up a copy of Windows 95, then compiled the DOSBox code into Javascript using a program called Emscripten. Because the operating ...

Some apps were simply checking if the name of the OS reported by Windows started with "Windows 9", and configuring themselves as if the OS was either Windows 95 or Windows 98. This caused ...

Chen explaining that it was a deliberate design choice to minimize the amount of code required for the Windows 95 configuration experience. Experienced PC users may be well aware of the peculiar ...