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Thousands of apps ported back to Windows 95 twenty-eight years later — .NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software


Lego Island and a custom Snipping Tool are among the apps tested

The 51-minute video we watched a few times over mostly reveals genuine enthusiasm for that era of hardware and software, as one would imagine if he were willing to make a film about expanding Windows 95 28 years after its release. The original video, embedded below, also has several amusing live-action tangents that set the tone and character, including a few beautifully shot intermissions. After much more debugging for Lego Island, MattKC eventually manually coded a method for the Exception/error message to print to a window instead of happening where he can't see it.

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