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jalev
I've been playing freecell on it for the last hour or so
VerifiedReports
"For the best experience, use Chrome."

That's not Windows 3.11. That kind of thing is circa 2000, and a state none of us should want the Web to return to.

hypercube33
You know 3.11 was end of support 2001 and some versions were still supported to 2008 so technically it's in era.
xavortm
Look at how fast Excel loads. Compare to modern high-end PC with it's latest version.
achairapart
Exited to dos, found Bubble Bobble in GAMES directory and started to play. And that's mostly what I used to do as a kid at the times of Windows 3.11!
smusamashah
Can we have icons like these again please.

I started from Windows 98 and always loved the icons. They actually represented the application and purpose. These days they are more focused on looking modern. Lots of times they are not even distinguishable between each other.

canjobear
I was expecting it to boot to DOS and then having to typing "win"
mr_tox
what is this feeling? oh, yes, it's damn nostalgia
absynth
Plenty of people would have used this purely for Cardfile.

em-dosbox is a good project.

dintech
I loved messing around with this for a short time. Very nostalgic.
Aardwolf
My only complaint is the esc button you need in some of the games, make the fullscreen go to the small display again
cyberax
Ah. Every time I look at the UI, I realize just how much the modern UI/UX degraded.

We had clear colorful icons, text labels, scrollbars, clearly distinguishable checkboxes. And now we have UI that actively promotes "rebelliousness" and "being in the know".

oliwary
This is super cool! Ran into an issue though, the first time it boots perfectly, after the first refresh it loads for a bit (downloads the image again instead of from cache) and then a cachebuster URL is added and loading starts over, without ever finishing. Ideally it would just load from cache on refresh.
alexjplant
The long pause after "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." as the disk image downloaded aroused a dormant feeling of dread in me as I panicked and wondered why Windows wasn't loading... back in the day it meant getting yelled at for "breaking" the computer and tasked with spending the day reinstalling Windows and everybody's programs.

Nostalgia tends to make things seem better than they were. Moments like this remind me how much tech has improved over the years.

M95D
I used a doublespace/drivespace volume for Windows. Backup was just booting from a floppy and making a copy of that file. Reinstall was "format c:", "sys a: c:", copy the volume file and dblspace.ini from backup.
t1234s
I forgot how good the old version of excel was
eqvinox
IPv6 seems broken on this website.
stuart78
Very pleased to see Abuse in there, but unfortunately it didn't load for me. I spent way too many hours in that game back in the day.
doublerabbit
Great. Attempting to use this on my 2mb ADSL is exactly like loading it from floopy disk. A true nostalgic expirence.
mvkel
Excited for the inevitable "Windows 3.11 - 98K MRR" in pieter's X bio.
dachris
Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked.

So simple, so easy. Those were the days.

katzenversteher
I was super happy when I found OMF 2097 in the games 2 folder. That game has insanely good music.
pjmlp
Love the experience, and it has been a while that I haven't seen a BIOS system configuration, what a throwback.
Synaesthesia
Altavista search engine is a throwback for me.