Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
32 points by jalev 5 hours ago
xavortm an hour ago
Look at how fast Excel loads. Compare to modern high-end PC with it's latest version.
bitwize 31 minutes ago
Office really chugged on the PCs of the time though. We can debate whether modern Excel actually delivers enough more value than historical Excel to justify being as more resource-hungry, thus slower to load, as it is. But historical Excel appears fast on modern hardware, even in emulation, because the CPU, RAM, and permanent storage have had 30 years to evolve since it was released. Contemporary 386s and 486s would not have been that snappy.
pjerem an hour ago
I came to write exactly this comment.
The thing runs instantly. And that's in a VM in Javascript.
absynth 22 minutes ago
Plenty of people would have used this purely for Cardfile.
em-dosbox is a good project.
canjobear an hour ago
I was expecting it to boot to DOS and then having to typing "win"
VerifiedReports 2 hours ago
"For the best experience, use Chrome."
That's not Windows 3.11. That kind of thing is circa 2000, and a state none of us should want the Web to return to.
ktm5j 2 hours ago
If this were a commercial project then I could understand the complaint.. but this is just a small, for-fun project and they have little motivation to put the extra effort into support for all browsers.
userbinator an hour ago
Bellard (yes, him) already had a working VM of Windows 2000 in the browser around a decade ago, with no specific "support for all browsers" (whatever that means):
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...
dintech 15 minutes ago
I loved messing around with this for a short time. Very nostalgic.
achairapart an hour ago
Exited to dos, found Bubble Bobble in GAMES directory and started to play. And that's mostly what I used to do as a kid at the times of Windows 3.11!
mr_tox 44 minutes ago
what is this feeling? oh, yes, it's damn nostalgia
smusamashah an hour ago
Can we have icons like these again please.
I started from Windows 98 and always loved the icons. They actually represented the application and purpose. These days they are more focused on looking modern. Lots of times they are not even distinguishable between each other.
ranger_danger 2 hours ago
Just a black screen for me.
jalev 5 hours ago
I've been playing freecell on it for the last hour or so
avadodin 41 minutes ago
Freecell is actually a 32-bit Windows application running through a Wine-like compatibility layer called Win32s on 16-bit Windows.