Give a guy an iPhone, a jailbreak, and an open-source, cross-platform x86 emulator, and it's just a matter of time before hilarity ensues. In this case, said hilarity involves getting Windows 95 to boot on an
iPhone 3G, a process that takes 5-10 minutes worth of pure boot time only to yield an environment useless for... well, actual use. In the video, we see the hack demonstrated both on an actual iPhone and within the Mac-based emulator, which we reckon is just about the most terrifying Parallels / VMware replacement we've ever encountered. Apparently, XP emulation and
3GS tests are up next -- the 3GS should perform marginally better on account of its faster core and more capacious RAM -- but that still won't cure the sting of being
handily beaten to the milestone by the N95, will it? Follow the break for video of the mind-twisting Microsoft-on-Apple-on-Apple emulation in action.
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posted Jul 13th 2009 7:12PM
lol idle minds
Is that a colorware'd macbook?
@mike
It does serve as an interesting illustration of how far things have progressed in 14 years, where an entire OS from 1995 that used to run on big beige boxes and came on half a dozen floppy disks, can run on a pocket phone in 2009 and was likely downloaded from Bit Torrent in about 10 minutes.
@Paul
wouldn't this unite the haters. The Win haters can gnash their teeth at their beloved being sullied and the Mac haters can gnash their teeth at their beloved running on the most heinous product from the den of evil.
Actually I think this is the beginning of a new dawn! Where the haters unite against their common foe, interoperability.
to the people it's a "blackbook," but the official name by apple is "macbook ultimate."
actually "look_around_you", I know. It is only a small chuckle to these guy's idle-ness and their results. I've used windows since 3.1 running a 486 compaq all in one.
@AK66
I thought it was a regular blackbook too except I noticed it that has the new chiclet style keyboard....
ok.everyone. stop replying through my post. kthxbye
Ok. Roger that.
I can't imagine any "Mac haters" being pissed at interoperability. That's like half of the pro-Windows argument in a nutshell; you can run Windows on a Mac, but not the other way around. It looks like it's a very nice OS with a lot to offer, but I'm not willing to go through all the effort of hackintoshing just to still be ultimately breaking the law.
@John ... the only reason why you can't run OS X on a PC is 'cos Apple has issues with it.
@timberspine: You're a stupid schmuck to read half the comment, understand half of the half of the comment you read and then post a half assed comment.
@John: neva mind :)
how ironic. windows 95 actually could multitask while the iphone still cant.
P.S.
I don't always like the press........
Replying for the lulz.
*shudder*
"What can they say? It's too painful for them to even fathom such a thing." - Paul A. (douche) Chapel
I was thinking thats how you fanbois would be feeling.
Finally there is a use for the iphone. Toss TCPMP on there and you have a great little media player.
Why on Earth would this clown thing anyone "hates" this? It doesnt affect a hair on anyone's head. And from what I can tell, it seems like the they are the ones that are acting like this a real problem.
@Paul A. Chapel
Run something more useable, faster, and cooler than Win 95, -on a real iPhone-.
This is either the most awesome thing in the world or i'm bored
Not being a fan of iPhones, Windows 95, people, and many other things. What is this abomination why would they do it. Stupid iPhone, its not a computer. Stupid Windows 95, its...old and creepy. Its kind of like an old creepy man sitting in a park leering at the young girls. Its just creepy and it shouldn't be. Continuing my odd and creepy analogy, the young girls (iPhones) shouldn't be wearing such clothing around creepy old men. They should just stay away from each other. Not join forces and mate to form an abomination like this. Wow this analogy got horribly out of hand...
I'm not even sure what I was going for, I think all I accomplished was appearing creepy.
I agree.
I desipise Apple, and the iPhone, and I am quite fond of Windows.
But NOTHING deserves Windows 95. Nothing.
@Josh Best comment ever. I was wondering where you were going with that analogy, just like you were. You accomplishment was well and truly achieved.
@Paul Ass Chapel Have you actually ever had a girlfriend or are you too busy fingering the refresh key on any article remotely/can be tenuously related to Apple/Microsoft in your Safari Web browser, inciting hatred amongst the people actually trying to contribute to these forums? Don't worry about posting a come back as I won't be refreshing constantly.
sounds more useful than when that guy got XP working on the PS3. Didn't it take like 10 minutes just to load notepad?
Invalid Parameters.
Master Chief did.
I completely forgot about that fugly default desktop color. Just seeing it makes me cringe a little.
as a kid raised around computers with that wallpaper I have to say I have grown to love it. :D
Ok, so....... why was Paul low marked on this comment? I use Microsoft every day. The only Apple product I own is an iPhone and I have to agree with him completely. Until Windows 7 (which I'm still undecided about) I kind of feel like Microsoft pays a monkey to pick out their desktop pictures based on which which pictures accumulate the most flung poo. Seriously, doesn't ANYONE else feel that way?
2000/XP might run faster, depending on the emulator... but this isn't running on an x86 processor so it'll still be slow.
Still an interesting concept.
Steve jobs. He said it kills battery life. He said the same thing about 3G, though. Lets be clear here: the iPhone is nothing more than an iPod Touch with phone apps and accompanying radios. Real phones have removable batteries, keyboards, and multitasking. This is because in the real world, people use their devices for more than the occasional fart app or scrabble game.
Please re-read: http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/10/editorial-taking-the-iphone-3gs-off-the-job-market/
And for the record, I use a pre because it meets all of those criteria. It doesn't have the stupendous blackberry keyboard or the thousands of iApps, but it has a keyboard and a forthcoming sdk. And instead of a charger, I carry around a spare battery. It's less bulky, and puts the mobile back into mobile phone.
OH GOD IT BURNS
That would be the iPhones battery.
The entire process is much faster/cooler on the Hello Kitty 3G.
Hey look! They made it useful.
Why'd he glue his iPhone to his monitor?
LOL I dont know if you're joking or not but damn thats funny.
lol someone is too serious in here.
btw, ZuneHD Rulez!!!
Clearly the obvious thing to do is to run a Mac OS emulator in the Windows box, right? (Probably have to be 68k) And then find some more emulators to run in that....
And thus the problem of overheating iPhones was figured out!
If it runs minesweeper, I'm sold.
Paul Chapel u are probably the most pathetic useless human on the planet. You obviously are to stupid to make any kind of valid argument. Go walk in front of a moving car.
@xodus - at least he's contributing something. Humor.
@xodus - at least he's contributing something. Humor.
@TheIcemanCometh There seems to be an echo in the internets today.
Perhaps it's your telling skills that are lacking.
The multitask comment was fairly amusing, but then you had to go getting all smug afterwards.
@ Paul
Whether or not a blue screen would appear in such an endeavor as this has nothing to do with the iPhone's (or ANY Apple) hardware and everything to do with the software. The fact that there was no blue screen here just shows that the person who pulled this off really knew what they were doing.
(Note: I am not a computer expert. This comment is based off of my own experience and research. If I'm wrong, please let know in a simple, nice comment. No flames, please)
I bet my money on Android running on an iPhone soon. It's only a matter of time.
yes please.
Dude, check this then: http://budurl.com/iLinux
Your dream should be realized very soon...
But what about running Vista - i guess you'd need to install another processor & attach a fan to the back first :P
I'd prefer to see Win 3.1 up and running personally.
I miss that OS.
I'm curious how they got the bochs emulator to work on the iPhone.
thats horrible
Ya know, that's really cool... nothing to be worried about. Somebody had a lot of time on their hands.
I just threw up in my mouth...
Now install starcraft :)
"We got two things we all love together, in one device, for one day"
You've got it wrong, Paul.
I don't like iPhone as much as I don't like Windows 95.
I don't know what the problem is. It runs fine on my Nokia N82...
Hahahaha, I now have a Windows 95 product key!
I'm guessing that's the serial number and not the key you're talking about.
let's try and get microsoft tech support to take calls on it
hey Paul A. Chapel, did you get banned again? what happened to your old screename "paul a. chapel?"
So this is how they got it to cut and paste.
I LOL'd
There's An App For That...
Retro!
That would be amusing to see a Blue Screen of Death on an iPhone, wouldn't it?
It could have been worse.. he could have installed windows ME.
My subconscious won't allow me to remember a trauma of that magnitude.
Minesweeper FTW!
Don't be fooled! The guy is running an iPhone app called RDP which provides access to PC. :)
@paul
replying to your verse from above... Well placed LOTR.
Paul......please be respectful. You are putting up posts to the point that people are having a hard time........believing about your opinion about Microsoft. I know you extremely hate Microsoft, but you are putting up posts in a negative way. I am sorry that commenters are offending you, but you should at least try to comment in a way you're sounding........ummmm.....reasonable, not sounding like a hater. Some of them may not take that joke because you making it hard to make jokes about Apple or whatever; you express yourself in an unusual way that uses very powerful words. Try to be a little more respectful and understanding about people's "care" for anything you don't like.
What crappy music/sounds.
Give the guy some credit for trying... He did however, successfully violate and defile an Apple product which in my books counts for a lot!!! Not because I hate Apple, I have a Mac, and an iPhone, but because I love it when someone totally crushes their heavy control over their hardware / software.
Can it play doom?
Doesn't the 3g (definitely 3gS) have a fast enough processor and enough ram to run Windows 98 (decently that is)?
I would be interested in that given 98 was much more stable.
Nevermind, I just watched the video (something I should have done before commenting) and realized that it probably could not handle Win 98 (using the current implementation that is)
hahaha well done Apple (or some iphone fans) but again you "discover" America for second time. That's emulation is way down by the moment, just because it's lame. Take one UIQ phone and you'll see the future features of your beloved iphone. Be interested a little bit more.
UIQ didn't die. It was murdered!
I remember the first time I turn on my computer with win 95 in 1996, the first thing I got was illegal errors (Microsoft's wonderful BS) and a blue screen of death.
Ya know its odd this post put me into thinking about win 95 and how it crashed and f***ed up all the time, and how much better XP and Especially windows 7 are. 7 has not become unstable once since i installed it.
(Really not trying to be a fan boy just pointing something out)
Now it can really multitask and support flash.
COME ON!! put some WebOs on that thing already
+ 1
Hmmm... Can someone explain to me why it's running so slow? The iPhone has specs which are far superior to what computers had in the mid 90s. Heck, the specs of the iPhone 3GS and modern WM devices like the TouchPro are similar to those of mid-range computers of the early 2000s: 256MB RAM, 600MHz CPU, 16GB of storage, fast enough graphics for a basic Windows interface, a sufficient resolution especially with WM devices now which have VGA or WVGA - PCs with those specs were running XP 7-8 years ago, so why is Windows 95 running so slow? I never understood why XP for instance can't be ported for modern PocketPCs or the iPhone (obviously there'd be less use porting Windows for the iPhone but you could port an older MacOS for it couldn't you?)...??
It's emulating Windows, not running it natively.
Ok, I admit it. The iPhone is not useless after all.
I bet windows ce would emulate nicely
The only way to multi-task on the Iphone
I wonder if it could run Windows Vista... Might need to add another processor and a fan or two first :P