I got IE3 under Windows 95 to display my site. But I didn’t stop there.
After a quick trip around the web to find a copy of IE 5.5 SP2 (the last IE for Windows 95), I manage to grab it and get it installed on Windows 95. Not only does this modernise the browser a touch, but it also installs various DLLs we’ll need to run a much better browser. 🙂
Thumbnails are clickable to enlarge, by the way.
Now we have IE 5.5, albeit at a rather bad 16 colours (not 16-bit colour, 16 different colours).
After an install of VMware Tools, we have the drivers to ramp up the colour depth to a respectable 65,536 different colours (that’s 16-bit colour).
A quick run of Windows Update to apply some security updates from, hmmm, looks like 1999. 😀
And finally, we install Firefox 1.5.0.9 (it crashes on first run, but a reboot and relaunch and it works perfectly). Finally, a decent browser.
Unfortunately, Firefox 2.0.x apparently doesn’t want to work with Windows 95 anymore.
Great fun – and I couldn’t have done it without this guide.
You ought to run a series showing how big websites look in IE3. I imagine it’d be interesting comparing Microsoft.com and Apple.com renders!
Hmmm… interesting idea.
Unfortunately, I just upgraded(?) it to IE5.5, so I’ll have to make a new VM and re-install, but then that’s not too hard at all.
In fact, you just boot off a floppy image and do D:setup. Oh, and you have to explicitly tell Windows 95 to install TCP/IP. How times have changed. 🙂
I like chris’ idea, though i think it would be more interesting if you were to try it with IE1.
I am currently running windows 95-C just fine. I got PLUS and the desktop update and SP1 – makes it have the same interface as 98 does. Office 97 and Visual Studio 5 work perfectly.
and by the way, ie 1 is totally useless.
Its essential to get the windows 95 SP1, windows installer, winsock2 and the dial up networking fix.
install IE4 BEFORE IE5 and you will get the updated desktop.