Thousands of apps now work on Windows 95 with retro .NET backport

MattKC on YouTube has apparently done something no one else had thought of tackling: getting the .NET software framework from Windows 98 to work on Windows 95.

The biggest hurdle was getting .NET running on Windows 95. Not only did .NET come out when Windows 98 was the new kid on the block, but Windows 95 never had any work done on it to back-port it onto the system.

As such, MattKC had the mammoth task of getting .NET to work with Windows 95, presented in a video that’s both educational and entertaining. It’s a great watch, even for people who would have zero idea where to start with a project like this.

.NET was Microsoft’s work to integrate software compatibility across the Windows operating system, first in Windows 98.

See the video below and more in the article here. Software on GitHub.


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