Rather than emulating the specific hardware features of the IBM PC XT, it seems that PCjs is mainly interested in emulating all of the features in IBM PC BIOS that Windows 1.01 makes calls to. The desktop looks messy as expected, but you should not have any troubles identifying most of the apps and game shortcuts the team placed on it. The hardware of the emulated machine is highly configurable via XML - in the case of the Windows 1.01 machine, PCjs emulates the Intel 8088 CPU at 4.77MHz, 256KB of RAM, and CGA graphics. When you first open the EmuOS website in your browser (there are multiple mirrors), you get the choice between running an emulated Windows 95, 98 or ME interface, all emulated in JavaScript. Core features at a glance: Fully working online DOS emulator based on DOSbox Application upload support (up to 1 MB in. PCjs essentially emulates in software the entirety of the IBM PC ROM BIOS and MDA font ROM. Believe it or not we have an online DOS emulator available for uploading and running DOS games, applications inside your browser. All major browsers support the emulator, including Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android. The browser-based version of Windows 1.01 is powered by PCjs, an IBM PC XT (Model 5160) emulator written in JavaScript.
Yes, despite missing the boat by some 28 years, you can now draw stunning monochrome art in the first version of MS Paint, take some notes in the original Notepad, or have your ass handed to you by Microsoft’s shockingly good Reversi AI.
Thanks to the surprising power and flexibility of JavaScript, you can now run Windows 1.01 in your web browser.
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