A 51-minute video was published on MattKC’s YouTube channel, documenting the entire process of porting modern applications to the legacy system and highlighting the problems enthusiasts encountered in the process. 24 Channels.

Notably, the task went beyond porting libraries from Windows 98; this required the creation of multiple files. 5400 registry key To facilitate the functionality of the framework in Windows 95.

But there were other obstacles to modernization.

• A major challenge was overcoming the .NET framework’s dependency on the missing ndphlpr system component in Windows 98. But an enthusiast has developed a workaround by simulating the presence of this component to trigger the framework’s functionality, albeit with some stability risks. Additional changes were made to the user32.dll library and the framework itself to improve system reliability.

You can watch the full video here

A Windows 95 revival is certainly out of the question, but MattKC’s efforts show the inherent tenacity of enthusiasts who always try to make something modern work on a very old hunk of iron. But it is always interesting and even entertaining to watch their manipulations.