Free95: An open-source Windows-compatible operating system
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·March 10, 2025asveikau
mdaniel
I really despise people that commit .dll and .exe files to git, and https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... isn't doing themselves any favors. However, https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/... makes me wonder if this whole repo is some kind of elaborate joke or something
genewitch
Dang might need to manually review this post, because those files were wiped 8 minutes after you mentioned this.
Skunkworks folder is 404, too.
If you want a windows - like os there's reactos, right? You can compile it with itself.
em3rgent0rdr
Free95: "Free" as in "a free laugh".
OsrsNeedsf2P
Seems very WIP. Might be easier to start with something like ReactOS[0] and work backwards.
ninjin-carh
There is a pull request from someone suggesting they are removing malware from this... https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/pull/3
ninjin-carh
although it looks like the "malware" may have been a joke from the diff
https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/pull/3/commits/3f...
grendelt
I used something like this back in the day to run Winamp when CarPCs were a thing (to play MP3s before MP3 player stereos came out).
If I knew what I knew now, I'd have done it so much differently, but it was the late 90s/early 2k and we use what we know.
kittikitti
Can I run Crysis with this?
Sorry this is going to be more impolite than most HN comments, but this person doesn't know what they're doing. WriteFile returns hardcoded TRUE. NtReadFile() returns a char*. NtWriteFile does a string compare if the filename is "CON", and the entire functionality is a strcpy() otherwise. This is not what a replacement Windows kernel looks like.
Source: https://github.com/Versoft-Software/Free95/blob/main/free95/...