Obsolete hardware and software is an excellent breeding ground for performing all types of tests. Doom It is a clear example of software, a title that can be installed on practically any device with a screen such as a kitchen robot, a calculator, a pregnancy test, an iPod or even a keyboard (with a screen).
If we talk about hardware devices, the latest example of the free time and imagination that some users have shows us how Windows 95 is capable of functioning in New Nintendo 3DS.
This user’s initial idea was to use the Ableton music editing application on this console, something that, unfortunately, for him, he has not achieved.
But the striking thing about the story here is that, it is possible to install Windows 95, although it is a long, tedious and far from easy process. In fact, it took this user several days to be able to carry out this process and when it seemed that he had given up, the console booted up with this operating system that Microsoft launched, to no one’s surprise, in 1995.
They install Windows 95 on a New Nintendo 3DS
To carry out this project, he used a port of DOSBox for Nintendo 3DS that is not available through the official website of this emulator for old games that we can discharge from its creator’s website and through its page on GitHub.
Unlike what you might think at first, the installation process was much shorter than expected, since it only took a few minutes, however, the first time you ran it you had to leave the console running for several hours to to load the operating system.
This port of DOSBox for the 3DS offers mouse and keyboard support, although at first Windows was not able to recognize the hardware simulation, although it eventually did. It was then that he realized that the idea of installing Windows 95 to run the Ableton application was not a good one since it works very slowly.
Although it managed to run the application paintit did not correctly recognize the strokes on the screen and when it did, it represented totally different shapes than the ones I had drawn. What he did manage to do is work the sound by selecting a Sound Blaster card as the sound device, a legendary sound card from the 90s.
Initially this should not be the case since the minimum requirements for RAM memory for Windows 95 it is 4 MB. The New Nintendo 3DS has 256 MB of RAM. However, it uses a large amount of RAM to emulate the ARM architecture so overall performance is greatly affected.
This port of DOSBox for Nintendo 3DS is perfect for running older titles under MS-DOS directly like Test Drive 3, Duke Nuken, Wolf 3D, Prince of Persia, Indy 500 and many others, where it is not necessary to install Windows since, in this way, we can save the large amount of resources that are needed. This same port is also compatible with the Nintendo 2DS XL and the Nintendo 3DS XL.
