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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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567 points elvis70 | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.359s | source
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skissane ◴[31 Mar 25 00:26 UTC] No.43529281[source]▶
A Windows 3.x UI theme would get the childhood nostalgia going much stronger for me than a 95/NT4/98/2000/Me theme does.

Occasionally I boot up Windows 3.1 in a VM and play a game of Solitaire, for old time’s sake - I can run Windows 95 in a VM too, but it just doesn’t have the same pull.

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1. Gormo ◴[31 Mar 25 12:43 UTC] No.43534330[source]▶
Win3.1 works great in DOSBox, and you can get an even more authentic '80s-'90s IBM-compatible experience using PCEm or 86box, which emulate a wide variety of PC motherboards, graphics cards, and sound cards.