Both an idle and visionary user successfully ported Windows 95 to Android Wear, thus running the famous Microsoft operating system on the Samsung Gear Live smartwatch.
Do you like challenge? Do you have a determined retro side? Google is good, but is Microsoft better? Whatever your odd purpose that I’m not here to judge, here are the answers to the questions.
If Android Wear is still in its infancy for you, you can bet on a proven operating system with almost 20 years of history. Therefore it is now possibleInstall Windows 95 on your smartwatchMorality, no need to wait for Windows 10 to have a cross-platform OS.
Corbin Davenport, who has already made his difference by running the Android version of Minecraft (this little game that Microsoft bought for $ 2.5 billion) on Samsung Gear Live, has just released a video showing Windows 95 running at the same time.
By the way, keep in mind that the Samsung Gear Live is equipped with a Snapdragon 400 processor based on the ARM architecture, and Windows 95 was designed to run on x86 processors, which was the only processor known to the general public at the time.
So, except that Gear Live runs Android-based Android Wear. This means,we can start aDosBox there, an application that will emulate (in essence simulate) an x86 processor and then a DOS-like system that can be used to install Windows 95. It was indeed a DosBox that allowed Doom to run on a smartwatch.
So you know what to do to make a completely useless tweak. It’s fascinating to see how many little pieces of technology there are. more powerful than desktop computers today what we had (or didn’t have) back then. On the other hand, it turned out that, despite the features of the watch, which are sufficient on paper, the operating system cannot access all the available RAM, limiting the already reduced possibilities due to ergonomics.
When Windows 95 moves to your smartwatch, the coolest feature will be the one that lets you tell a friend with tears in the corner of your eye: “Look, I have Windows 95 on my wrist, the miniaturization of power that has been done in 20 years is obviously not crazy, no, but you do realize”.
And that’s right, it’s pretty crazy that we’ve shrunk so much in power over the last 20 years, sorry.
