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A web based Windows 98 desktop remake.

Includes:

• Notepad (separate README)
• Sound Recorder (separate README)
• Paint (separate repository)
• Calculator (separate README)
• 3D Pipes (separate repository)
• 3D FlowerBox (original repository) byKevin Shannon
• Minesweeper (separate README;original repository) byJon Ziebell
• Solitaire (original repository) byRadovan Janjic
• Pinball (original repository) ported byMuzychenko Andrey andAlula
• Winamp 2.9 (separate README;original repository) byJordan Eldredge
• Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer (separate README)
• Help Viewer
• 📎 Clippy (original repository)

Features:

• Drop files onto the desktop, and they'll be stored in a virtual filesystem
• Load Windows themes! Many are included in the Themes folder on the desktop.
• Easter eggs (try a famous cheat code 😉)
• Meticulous detail in many areas (although there's obviously lots "missing")
• Help > Help Topics in Paint, Sound Recorder, Notepad, and Minesweeper
• You can add the site to your homescreen on mobile

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Not yet licensed.This project is currentlysource-available / shared source, but notopen source.

Apps that it would be nice to integrate:

• Windows Classic theme designer
• Win95 Media Player

Other online operating systems / web desktops:

Name & Link	Vague Description	Repo & License	Chat
Rahul.io	another Windows 98 remake	repo here - MIT license
Windows 93	a "fictional version of Windows"	(not open source currently)	Discord
🏡 ZineOS	emojis everywhere	repo here - MIT license	Discord
EmuOS	emulator-focused Win9X desktop	repo here - shared source	Discord
OS.js	a more serious web desktop	repo here - simplified BSD license	Gitter
Friend	another serious one	repo here - different licenses for differentparts
CloudDesk	another serious one	(explicitly not open source)
AaronOS	interesting aesthetic	repo here - shared source	Discord
Web Desktop	Windows 10 like "startpage"
System	Windows 10 like thing
WinXP	Windows XP	repo here - MIT license
Windows 98 - Packard Belle	Windows 98	repo here - shared source
X-WebDesktop-Vue	Windows 7	repo here - MIT license
vue win3.1	Windows 3.1	repo here - shared source
VirtualDesktop	Screenshot flows, several OSes
GUIdebook	Screenshots, several OSes

Plus many moreweb desktops on Wikipedia,awesome-web-desktops,andawesome-OS.

Libraries:

• OS-GUI, which grew out of this project
• Packard Belle,React95,and another one calledReact95, with similar goals to OS-GUI
• BrowserFS, a filesystem abstraction library powering 98.js

Also:

• Awesome Atwood's Law, a curated list of JavaScript reimplementations, similar to/r/atwoodslaw/

SeeCONTRIBUTING

• InstallGit if you don't already have it.
• InstallNode.js if you don't already have it.
• Clone the repository.
• Open up a terminal / command prompt in the project directory, and runnpm install to install dependencies.
• Install one global dependency:npm i -g browserfs@2.0.0 (this will be simplified in the future; I'm using two different versions of BrowserFS for some reason)
• Runnpm start to start up a live-reloading development web server.

When pulling changes from git, runnpm install again in case there are any new or updated dependencies.(If you knowpackage-lock.json hasn't changed, you shouldn't need to do this.)

Some dependencies are versioned with npm, but pulled into the repo withnpm run pull-libs

Tests are written with Playwright. Spell checking is done with Cspell.

npm testnpm run lint

Debug tests or run them when code changes using the Playwright UI:

npx playwright test --ui

Quickly add tests using the code generator:

# Note: this runs the server, and currently leaves it running when closing the browser.# Could use `start-server-and-test` to fix this, or see if there's an option in `npm-run-all`'s `run-p` command.# (There's no option in `playwright codegen --help` to run the server, even though it's configured in `playwright.config.js`)npm run test-codegen

There are also VS Code extensions for Playwright and Cspell (Code Spell Checker).

To update subrepos, or push changes to them, installgit-subrepo. You don't need this tool to clone the project and get up and running, as subrepos are just normal subdirectories with a.gitrepo metadata file.

Note that the metadata file references specific commit hashes, including between repositories, so it's best to avoid rebasing when subrepo updates are involved, i.e. once you do a subrepo command, it makes a commit, and you should leave it (and earlier commits) alone, and you should leave commits in the subrepo alone, before and up to any commits referenced by the containing project.

When making changes to a subrepo within the containing project:I'd recommend phrasing commit messages to apply to the subrepo, primarily, rather than the containing project,so that when you push the changes to the subrepo, the commit message will be appropriate.

If you so much as edit the commit message for agit subrepo pushed commit, you'd have to update the.gitrepo metadata file manually in the containing project,OR you could drop the commit you pushed and thegit subrepo push commit (which updates the metadata) and dogit subrepo pull instead (which btw gives you an option to rename the commit; and I think renaming that commit would be safe after the fact anyways as long as it's the last commit and not pushed).

SeeTODO