Install Windows 95 on your smartwatch to make it even more useless

[Shawn Knight]

Android Wear is already available on a handful of smartwatches and is shaping up to be the frontrunner among operating systems for wearables. The OS is plenty powerful and after watching this video from 16-year-old web developer Corbin Davenport, we come to realize that it’s extremely versatile as well.

Using an emulator called aDosBox, Davenport was able to load Windows 95 onto his Samsung Gear Live. It’s not the fastest “app” you’ll see running on a smartwatch (the emulator software is partially to blame) and it’s completely impractical but I will admit that it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen ported to a watch thus far. I mean, how can you not love that tiny start menu?

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[VitalyT]

What does a 16-year old know about Windows 95 anyway?

A Z80 or Atari emulator is much more fun, you can run classic games on your watch.

 

[Guest]

There are 500.000 classic games for Windows 95

 

[Ultraman1966]

Why? Because he can.

 

[Guest]

Does it play Grim Fandango? On second thought the text may be too small. How about Motocross Madness?

 

[Guest]

Nice, now the only thing left is: a mouse.. with a mouse, now we can experience full-pledged-windows on your wrist, although it was so outdated

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

What does a 16-year old know about Windows 95 anyway?

A Z80 or Atari emulator is much more fun, you can run classic games on your watch.

A Z80 was a CPU made by Zilog to compete with Intel's and Motorola's CPU's at the time and is something entirely different to an Atari emulator.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

As the article headline states, he's made an already useless device even more useless.