I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95

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▶MUSIC
00:16 - Mega Man 8 - Stage Select
01:13 - DDRKirby(ISQ) - Lost My Way
02:41 - Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King (recorded by Kevin MacLeod)
04:56 - Sonic X-treme - Pharoah Den
06:39 - Jake Chudnow - Moon Men (Instrumental)
07:25 - Mega Man 8 - Frost Man
10:03 - DDRKirby(ISQ) - Celestial Journey
16:20 - Francesco Biondi - Shopping Frenzy
19:14 - Susan Boyle - I Dreamed a Dream
19:36 - Sonic X-treme - Space Queens
21:27 - Mega Man 8 - Opening Stage
23:23 - Monsters Inc Scream Team Training - Install Music
24:36 - Kalachnikov - Mental delivrance
25:24 - DDRKirby(ISQ) - The Ecstasy of Life
27:23 - Kevin MacLeod - SCP-x5x
29:16 - Graff - rain eater
31:05 - Kevin MacLeod - SCP-x6x
31:59 - LHS - BRD Keygen #4
34:16 - Falcon - spineless
35:01 - Kevin MacLeod - SCP-x2x
35:18 - Kevin MacLeod - Quinn's Song: A New Man
36:20 - Maktone - class cracktro#15
38:58 - Kevin MacLeod - Cool Vibes
40:17 - Kevin MacLeod - Mystery Sax
42:38 - BetaMaster - QuickTime Pro 7.0kg
44:39 - CORE - mr spock's cryo-bed
46:12 - BLiZZARD - Contraduct Design
47:41 - Kevin MacLeod - Promising Relationship
50:53 - xyce - jet stream
▶SPECIAL THANKS
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana
Matt and Montana
Dad
▶CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
9:26 Act 1 - Famous Last Words
16:11 Intermission - Windows Unicode
19:14 Act 2 - Les MSI-érables
27:23 Act 3 - An Unhandled Exception Occurred
48:03 Finale - Resolution

[@Hattyketchup]

Windows 95❌ A fucking movie:✅

[@jackintoshgamer]

LETS GO

[@RipVanFish09]

Oh jeez, I just noticed it’s an hour long! Today is a good day.

[@chanceForNotBeingRapper]

australian scott the woz with no glasses in computer diy hannel

[@BrokenCircus]

This sort of video is why we should stop saying "content", and instead call it a film

[@brinleyhamer729]

@@BrokenCircus a film is technectly content just alot of it

[@cs188]

This is a phenomenal piece of cinematography you've produced here. It doesn't even look low-budget! (well, except for my 2 second cameo)

[@MattKC]

Aw c'mon the video would be nothing without that red hot 𝕾𝖎𝖝𝖙𝖞 𝕹𝖎𝖓𝖊

[@alexp15-]

i honestly didn't even realize you were in the video, but just knowing you were in it makes it even cooler

[@qoombert]

holy shit cs is heh sis

[@qoombert]

oh, was CS the guy that said 69 was the number of registry keys added by the .net 2.0 installer?

[@CarlTheSkunk]

YOO THE GOD OF YTPS IS HERE

[@tanzytechgem490]

i’m a game developer, and the workaround for printing the unhandled exception to the gui made me CRY laughing. genius.

[@XiC]

Neighbor Discovery Protocol Helper and 0x40 means "NDP_NEIGHBOUR_SOLICITED" A network mode to connect 2 computers without a router. And this step announces the computer on this network.

[@speeder3235]

Thanks, ancient wizard!

[@noahcrosby9876]

No way. Someone always knows!

[@riaz8783]

A wise man once said DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

[@Desperate.edits.]

Heck yeah!

[@harveysattic3918]

Didn't expect a Steve Ballmer reference.

[@NickBouwhuis]

He also said "AAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WOO! COME ON!" A wise man indeed

[@bsbsbspl]

😂😂😂😂

[@NolieRavioli]

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

[@informitas0117]

Program: *eldritch screeching* Matt: "40" Program: *purring*

[@HNedel]

That would be 0x40, thank you very much 😉

[@OttomanDrifter91]

Program: YOU SHALL NOT PASS Matt: no u Program: ... you know what, that's a valid point. Here's some more obscure clues for you to follow.

[@robonator2945]

the fact that this is not even remotely an uncommon thing to deal with when it comes to computers hurts my soul. You have no fucking idea how many hours I spent before I finally realized that, *_unlike every single other thing in the entire god damn language,_* C Macros are white-space sensitive. I literally lost like 5 straight hours of my life because there was a fucking space before a parenthesis. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was inventing computers, because I refuse to believe anything else in human history has caused more suffering than computers and their BS antics.

[@KookoCraft]

@@robonator2945 autism

[@GamemodePC]

0x40*

[@slurp50s]

I write NET 2.0 projects all the time. You'd be shocked the private companies, cities, government, and other projects that all still run on dinosaur technology. Though, the depressing part is so little people utilize NET 2.0 and they continue making their ever expanding code/framework in the old framework that will never translate to the new one. It's such a pain to force clients to move to NET 2.0 because I've got to tell them, "Your code won't last forever. Use Net 2.0 because then you can continue coding but the library will translate to newer projects". Because in the NET world, there was an apocalyptic event that split the NET environment. Anyone who was on the 4.7 (or now 4.8) NET framework got completely dropped by Microsoft for the newer NET core framework. The newer one is millions of times better, but it screwed everyone on the old framework. So I've basically been employed for a long time simply helping project after project after project get off of 4.7 and onto the newer core. That's my developer rant. Your welcome. You're weird if you read this. But if you did. Remember. USE NET 2.0 IF YOU ARE STUCK ON THE OLD FRAMEWORK! Please!

[@CrapperCopter]

8 years ago I got a recruiter offer for compiler engineer job at a Texas bank who wanted a COBOL frontend written for LLVM and a backend for their System/360 mainframe which they no longer had a supported COBOL compiler for. A bank still using System/360 in ~2016 wasn't too surprising, and I briefly debated sending them a gigantic estimate for the labor (and then even though it would have been a doable project, fleeing to a remote Island with the money) but the scare words aside from COBOL which could no longer instill fear in me at that point and the ancient mainframe were "no longer supported compiler"... this implied a terrible lifetime spent supporting this machine until I drove to texas in a fit of rage, grabbed a 6 shooter out of the free 6-shooter basket at the entrance of the bank (I assume they have those, we nearly do in the midwest in [redacted] and we're not even known as a gun happy state) and plugging that machine full of hollow points until someone physically pried that gun from my warm live hands and forced me to start supporting the damn COBOL compiler again. I made the right decision in completely ignoring the recruiter, I think.

[@tomwhit1982]

I worked at a tape manufacturer not long ago that has all the lab testing equipment still on 95. Youll be making some very happy people out there.

[@vjcodec]

Would be a great follow up video.

[@notenoughmonkeys]

Fun fact, the installer has more registry keys than there are seconds in this video. Can't believe the amount of effort that went into this whole thing! Utterly incredible.

[@dogewasfound]

so it has more than 3,113 registry keys? damn. edit: shit i didn't watch the whole dvideo before responding it does yes

[@jlewwis1995]

​@@dogewasfoundyeah it apparently bas 5409... and thats just for version 2, i can only imagine tbe amount .net 8 has if microsoft didnt eventually get their shit together since then...

[@monad_tcp]

That's because there's this thing called DCOM, or COM+ that basically takes a C++ class and turns it into 10 registry keys at minimum in the registry, so that C++ class can be used by any other DLL or software. Its all done because C++ never had binary compatibility between compilers and systems. DotNet uses it heavily internally because you know, it is made in C++, but C# must be able to call C++ objects and there's this JITtted code that must be able to use it via the marshall interop laywer, and the rest of the other software on the system, like Office and the rest of Windows also communicates like that. Really, that's an ingenuous solution to a very hard problem, how do you do Inter-process communication at scale ! It seems a lot of registry keys, but they are automatically generated, I remember using ATL for that in C++. So instead of just loading a DLL and calling C prototypes, you have to put them in the registry, for each "function", its literally just a more complex database of symbols, like the symbol table any EXE has.

[@tomaszsikora6723]

Why so many registry keys though? Does someone know?

[@dafaislami3107]

​@@tomaszsikora6723(ignore this lol) Around 5.000, Matt said it in act 2

[@snake9206]

Imagine if every time you put a project on GitHub, you had to spend six months making a parody film explaining your process.

[@stylis666]

I wish! I'm only learning how to program. It would take me a decade to learn all this stuff. But I would totally make a parody film out of the journey to getting Pro Pinball games to work on modern machines. You can't even make an image of the discs that work without using some niche format only some programs, like Alcohol120% or DAEMON tools can make or use. And on modern machines there are security issues with the original discs and even disc images you can buy from the company. I have a cracked version of Big Race USA someone gave to me a couple of decades ago that still works on all machines and operating systems from Win98 to WIndows 11. So it's definitely possible. Maybe it even runs on Win95. I'm pretty sure I've only gotten and played the game after I got Win98. And I bought a disc copy and later all the other games as well and the digital versions in one pack and ended up sticking with playing the crack because it just works, unlike the disc and digital versions. But they did some really cool stuff.The physics, including spin and bounce against the glass worked very well. And they used audio tracks of live played music in the games, which was pretty rare back when The Web came out (didn't have bounce on glass yet) for MsDos. But it also makes it impossible for most disc burning software to copy both the files and the audio so they both work without a CD-rom. I found an old msi file I made with Alcohol120% way back when and I got that one to work by copying the game files and ignoring the installer, and it will play the audio and the game on Windows 10. So that's pretty cool. I would love to get all 4 games fixed and working properly on all systems. Two of them never worked without sound glitches on any system I've tried them on and some didn't work at all. And they've got great music and they're still great pinball games with a lot of cool and fun options to play with.

[@jaycarlisle5770]

That's a LOT of armature porn They'd probably have to rebrand as Get Only Fans Hub or something... and that only covers half the primary functions the intranets were purposed for What about the cute kitty pics?

[@KaizarNike]

by this metric im already 50 years old

[@FarmYardGaming]

Should be a necessity

[@frodzie]

I used to work in IT in the meat industry, we had multiple machines in factories across the world that still ran on 95 or 98 and had zero upgrade paths. When one went down if the spare didn't work (or just didn't exist) we would frantically scramble to bring up a VM backup of the machine and fight for ages to get it to talk with the old hardware. I can think of many situations where having this solution would have been useful. You sir, are a genius!

[@crtx3]

What is your justification for murdering animals?

[@LumemDH]

@@crtx3they taste good.

[@crtx3]

@@LumemDH So you value your taste over the lives of sentient non-human animals. Does that make murdering them okay? Would it be okay to kill humans for the same purpose?

[@876r2rfs]

@@crtx3 Their screams sound good to the ears.

[@nibblrrr7124]

"you don't wanna know how the sausage is made", in more than one way...

[@HammeredHunter]

I hope Dave from Dave's Garage sees this. Reckon he'd love to see it being one of the devs of Windows' OS back in the 90s. Great effort mate. Was a pleasure to watch your journey and inspiring as a neat project for software devs to try it for fun that isn't just another 'portfolio piece'.

[@evanbarnes9984]

Dude the fact that you did this project is insane on its own, but you also just MADE A FILM NOIR IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VIDEO? So nuts dude, amazing work

[@EthanBlesch]

First 30 seconds I thought it was supposed to be parodying Mr. Robot tbh

[@nicl83]

@@EthanBlesch I was thinking that, he almost sounds like Elliot lol

[@caliellimadacosta]

I'm curious about what role more time: make it or produce a film about it

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Still completely useless.

[@evanbarnes9984]

@@suprememasteroftheuniverse yeah man, art is definitionally useless. And?

[@bootie]

As a .net dev I really, really enjoyed seeing you get it working on an operating system it was never meant to run on! I haven't enjoyed a video as much as I did this one in a long time - well done Matt!!!

[@Welvrt]

That’s great

[@WilliamMelton617]

how was developing dotnet? smooth or frustrating??

[@4rumani]

choo choo

[@unicodefox]

@@WilliamMelton617i think they mean they make programs with .net, not an actual ms employee

[@davidark9054]

I have to say, I am very surprised to not only see such a technical feat of backporting, but a good noir parody film. I've made movies with people, it's a lot of work. But you're also debugging. You are an inspiration!

[@MrOrgeston]

"The dump bin? What is this, my house?" got me so hard.

[@jagjyot4828]

program: "what the FUCK. the driver did not send me the number i need. i will now refuse to work whatsoever until this issue is resolved" "0x40" program: "oh ok ☺"

[@Talking__Ben]

why is this a cinematic masterpiece? i expected a documentary on how some guy ported some modern windows apps to windows 95

[@rubaitahamed7611]

ifkr!! i didn't even realise this was a hour long

[@lunakoala5053]

I wonder what took longer do to. Figuring out this kinda insane endeavor. Or turning it all into a freaking arthouse movie.

[@rebekahthebanana8052]

The cinematography in this is amazing. Not only did you produce a genuinely informative and entertaining retro-tech video but you also made a FILM out of it. The sheer quality of it absolutely knocked my socks off and I loved the take on noir you added in the mix. Big W's all around man, this was a masterpiece.

[@KAMI_24]

I had the pleasure of working with orca a few months ago. The second i sat MSI on the screen i shouted "ORCA" and had a good laugh as you encountered every issue i had too with the installation process.

[@Chiberia]

Okay, hear me out. 10:44 - I own that chair. I bought it for my daughter when she was 1 thinking it was a cheap plushy chair. It is easily the best-upholstered, nicest piece of furniture in my entire house. It is stupidly-nice for a elmo-faced piece of child furniture. Seeing it pop up in this video killed me.

[@Space_US]

lol

[@superzin086]

lol

[@cardude8996]

Lol

[@OldManBOMBIN]

lol

[@TreeeLeeeaf]

lol

[@amoliski]

This is one of the most impressive programming videos on the Internet - both from the actual achievement perspective, but also from the filming/editing/pacing/skit perspective. Bravo.

[@cosmnik472]

Minor spelling mistake

[@JacobP81]

YEP

indeed, I don't like to think about perfection in life but this video changed my mind

[@sorayaimperial]

Sometimes it actually might matter more than we think. When I was doing my thesis in chemistry less than 10 years ago, we had this chromatograph that needed to be connected to a computer with win 95. Mostly because of the port used to connect the machine to the PC, but also the software wouldn't properly run on more modern versions. While a bit older than two other models we owned, the fact was that this was the best chromatograph we owned - not as versatile or flexible, but it was the one less prone to weird malfunctions and was very reliable (while the more modern one, I spent more time "debugging" - ergo, moving screws and valves around - than actually working) and cheap to run thousands of analysis. This meant that my working process was: - Run stuff on 95 and save to a floppy disk. I could only save 2 or 3 runs (my thesis involved thousands) per floppy due to file size. - Get the floppy on another computer with XP, because it had both floppy disk and support USB. This PC does not support either the modern software I needed to run analysis on, neither the old software from the other PC. It also didn't have internet, presumably, because the USB was connected to a PCI port instead of network card. Realise that most modern usbs aren't recognised by the PC for some odd reason, needed to find a 1Gb drive to be able to make it work. Save to usb. - Take the USB across the hall to a modern computer running (at the time) Win 8.1 and finally shove the files into my analysis software and upload them to the cloud. - Repeat this 10x a day. Everyday. For two years. While I'm not sure backporting would've solved anything here (but probably we would've been able to transfer that port into a more modern computer if we had been able to run the software), this just goes to show that there is still a lot of specialised equipment still to this day running on win95 and good will (because I very much doubt they bought a 20k equipment - 20k is considered economical by this equipment standards - to replace a fully functioning old one).

[@DinoNuggies4665]

ngl, my mans not only pulled the craziest card on us by putting in hours upon hours to contribute to software preservation, but produced a film on top of it. In all seriousness, I was not prepared to watch an hour long video, but the in-between bits were genius and made me watch the whole thing without stopping. Another W upload.

[@billkeithchannel]

I just finally stopped at the crime scene white board to give the 4 F's for respect. This is phenomenal so far. Damn I must be a total nerd.

[@clownstep]

"Preservation"

[@DinoNuggies4665]

@@clownstep in retrospect it's probably not the right term

[@clownstep]

He basically tortured himself for our entertainment ☺️

[@foxonboard1]

It is only 30 min for me 😂😏

[@VNLX]

I checked ndphlpr.vxd file with a disassembler and it's really just a simple wrapper to get and set the thread context. Presumably on Windows 9x they could not use GetThreadContext and SetThreadContext because of some quirk. On newer versions they do not load that driver (obviously) and use GetThreadContext and SetThreadContext directly. Judging by paths in the .NET dlls (such as "f: tm dp\clr\src\debug\ee\debugger.cpp") ndp is just an internal codename or abbreviation for .NET. EDIT: I looked at the Win9x kernel and I think I understand why this is needed. In Win9x SetThreadContext changes the context immediately regardless of whether it's the current thread or another thread, while on newer versions an APC is used when changing the context of another thread. Presumably .NET needs the latter and it implements it through ndphlpr.vxd, also using an APC.

[@evanmcgurrin]

This could be helpful

[@ZiggyTheHamster]

Given future projects at Microsoft have the pattern NxP (.NET Compiler Platform = Roslyn), I would guess that NDP means .NET Developer(?) Platform.

[@DouglasWalrath]

@@ZiggyTheHamster oh so it means .NET Developer Platform Helper

[@naota3k]

I'm so glad people understand this stuff so I don't have to.

[@ShadowSlayer1441]

How were you able to look at the kernel? Did it leak at some point?

[@PeBoVision]

Play it, Matt. Play 'As 95 Goes Bye' A 1 hour video on backporting is a risky proposition, but you pulled it off. I understood just enough to follow along in fascination while being entertained by your rather corny & bizarre sense of humour (which I understood fully), and film-noire schtick. Your passion shone through for the full 51 minutes. Thank you so much for sharing. We'll always have Unhandled Exceptions. Here's looking at you kid.

[@RichRetroRepairs-AMPC]

I’ve got to say that this video is the best I’ve ever watched on YT, very in depth, entertaining & let me just wanting more afterwards… you should go into short films if you don’t already, some real talent there. All the best, Rich

[@ExceedinglyAvg]

Not only does this scratch my nerd itch, but it is so well written and the sketches are fantastic. You’ve found a way to keep getting better over time.

[@ObscEst]

I was interested in technological side of this video, would've sat, watched, and enjoyed it if it was just a dry explanation of what was done. But the creativity shown here had me hooked on a whole new level. Their was genuine suspense, I was sucked in. Honestly most modern studio produced films don't have the immersion and I'm glued to screen factor that this video does. MattKC you're incredible. Keep doing great things.

[@blazen123]

i just wish the sketches felt more intertwined, as by the end they felt like interruptions instead of being part of the entire point of the video.

[@randomazzy11]

i rlly like mattkc, and expected nothing more than a video where he does this, like his previous videos. This is now my fav youtube video EVER. I hope we will see more.

[@oz_jones]

​@@blazen123that's what all sketches are

[@blazen123]

@@oz_jones no sketches should not interrupt the flow of the video if they are a major part of it, these do however

[@Phroggster]

The technical hurdles needed to do this are both significant and numerous, but the fact that you created an entire Oscar-worthy feature-length movie documenting some of the struggles involved is absolutely bonkers. Bravo good sir, bravo indeed!

[@alexandredelevaux6865]

I was more involved in the plot than most of the movie released last year.

[@skodafanBOSNIA]

Man this was so cool to watch. The whole film like thing is so well done that the hour i spent watching it flew by so quick. Good luck with your future videos.

[@claytonbennett7797]

I watched this while debugging my own software. Your resilience really motivated me to keep pushing through some hard problems. Compared to all the hoops you had to jump through, my issue wasn't so bad. Thank you.

[@zik2000]

I am 3/4th of the way into the video. I had to stop and write this. This is literally insane. I have never seen someone so unfazed by such a ginormous task. And with a SMILE on his face. It blows my mind that on top of that you made an entire top notch movie production and editing. Honestly I would have given up so so long ago or gone mad. I feel so small, as if this mission of yours is like asking me to carve down the Everest, with a spoon. A plastic spoon. Great job, this video now lives in my head for the next few years. Thanks. P.s: for my sanity, i must know, how? How did you manage to muster the willpower to follow through even when you faced brick walls?????

[@dagahanfdm]

It's hard to begin but the point comes when something makes 'click' inside you and you just can't stop until you are finished. Maybe you must have at least some preposition for OCD or similar.

[@warmCabin]

Three quarterth

[@atomictransfusion]

what currency is that

[@gizmowizard352]

Yep, I don't know how he bypassed the Windows 3D Maze brick walls.LOL🤣🤣🤣

[@lantsukka]

@@atomictransfusion israeli shekel

[@seritools]

As the author of Rust9x (Rust language/standard lib ported to 9x/NT), glad to see other weirdos do similar things

[@jailsonmendes6120]

wait, do people use rust unironically?

[@Brisolo32]

@@jailsonmendes6120 yeah?

[@mme725]

​@@jailsonmendes6120people use it ironically?

[@seshpenguin]

You did such a great job with Rust9x, it's a lot of fun to use!

[@walleras]

Fuck rust

[@mikey38632]

23:45 I was really hoping one of the "random audience members" was going to be Dave Plummer from the Dave's Garage channel... lol

[@marklagodych5043]

This all is absolutely incredible! Your tremendous work, the fun and optimism you describe it with, and the film you've made! I truly love how deeply you dive into the details! Thank you, this is a video I'll be telling my friends about the next few days.

[@E5rael]

I have to admit, I started the video just listening to it in the background, but as the story progressed, I became more and more invested in your struggle, until I stopped my chores altogether and was completely engrossed, gripping the arm of my couch, bating my breath to see whether you'd break the code or not (even if the title spoiled the end result). But at the end, seeing the programs run flawlessly, your hard work having been paid off, made a rush of endorfins flow through me and I was audibly cheering for your victory. I guess it just tells something about your narrative/editing skills, that even when knowing the ending, you were still able to capture my full attention. Windows 95 was part of my childhood, and whenever I see the chunky UI, I'm filled with nostalgia. I'm happy to see people still caring enough for this obsolete piece of software, to be spending hours and upon hours of their time to make something like this. As a token of my appreciation, here's a little something for your trouble, King! 🏆

[@sarkal5302]

GOLLY!!!

[@Psythik]

Couldn't agree more. This truly was a captivating video. 10/10 production quality all around.

[@MattKC]

Wow thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words, it's the greatest compliment in the world to hear people genuinely enjoying and excited about what I make. Long live 9x!

[@HabibiBlxberg]

100 Dollars vor Euros? Holy banana pie's choco cream

[@TheMiningCrafter]

@@HabibiBlxbergwhat

[@mokiros]

I did not expect this to be such a cinematography masterpiece. An amazing mix of education, entertainment, and raw passion. Thank you.

[@maggie3060]

Its even got proper captions!!!

[@calebchris000]

I wish i could donate to Matt, I'm just broke haha 😢

[@DxsPro]

cinematography masterpiece?

[@g-starthefirst]

what’s a BYN and why did you give MattKC 20 of them?

[@itisliamhfjone22]

real

[@JoshuaSolanes]

I think this is my favorite video of all time. The amount of time making this work through cryptic errors, and fantastic recording/editing make this something else

[@mattbirnie]

I haven't watched your videos before, but this was so unexpected and fun! I sat down to see a curiosity of getting apps working, and what I received was so much more, and such a treat to watch. Fantastic job!

[@DJEevee257]

We can now use way, way later versions of software on Windows 95. This is a huge step in the direction of allowing these older operating systems to fluidly integrate into society!

[@rkan2]

Embrace Operating system fluidity! Osfluidity!

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Ageism is truly one of the most severe issues in tech.

[@privacyvalued4134]

Someone, somewhere has a embedded Windows 95 OS controller in a factory that had no upgrade path options due to the vendor no longer being in business and being unable to afford anything beyond maintenance of the existing machines. You have no idea who is going to come out the woodwork but you almost certainly just saved a few million jobs globally with this project.

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Not just some_one,_ *thousands* of mission-critical computers still run Win9x because redeveloping abandoned proprietary code has been cost prohibitive or not legally possible. If more industry apps were open-source, the situation might be different; closed-source code results in massive lost functionality once the rights-holders stop supporting it or change their business model.

[@orora667]

@@prophetzarquon1922 but if industry apps were open source it could be more easy to hack too.

[@froseph85]

When I worked at VMware, the primary reason that Windows 95 was an officially supported guest operating system was the demand from customers who used VMware to run legacy software on contemporary hardware.

[@DRNEGOLICIS]

Its funny you say that, youd be surprised how many 486 based machines are out in the field still running and useing win9x . the military is one for sure 386 and 486 still out at sea in ships being used to do one specific task and are good at it and continue to do so.

[@mytuberforyou]

YES! Try my CNC Jr. Milling machine that ran Win3.1 on an IBM clone 80286. I bought it from a lock factory in Virginia in 2006 and immediadely built a new controller because there was no documentation on the card and I wasn't even sure of the bus architecture, I think it's pre- ISA bus. I upgraded to a computer running Win98, Win95's evil descendent.

[@Holo_x3]

I love how you improve your format in every video a little bit more. Really great work, keep it up. Im courious how long it takes you for a whole project like this, from the idea to research, recording, editing.

[@heinkeld]

The last section, the resolution, was all I watched here, but what a blast from the past. Messing around with any and every setting to see what else could be customized or done, the magic behind it all, playing solitaire, the screensavers, Lego Island, etc. Awesome. From there to miniclip online games and so much more. Great stuff. What a project for nothing more than the passion of it. Props on the hard work!

[@mylittleparody2277]

Honestly, watch the whole thing, it's awesome!

[@skylar0085]

GUYS MATTKC JUST UPLOADED

[@nodontdoit9007]

AND ITS 51 MINUTES LONG

[@pastasauce8919]

AND ITS ABOUT WINDOWS 95

[@TheGlitchyMario]

YOOOO!!!

[@awsomebot1]

thanks for letting me know

[@thetechsavvy0153]

YAY!

[@pranavkulkarni6921]

DAMN this production quality is GREAT

[@ptrdblmeter]

ONG

[@jonapoka7109]

Eh

[@onlypuppy7]

I thought it was filler and was 3 times longer than it needed to be

[@pranavkulkarni6921]

@@onlypuppy7 I mean you are technically correct, even I found some parts unnecessary but you can't deny that there was a lot of effort

[@onlypuppy7]

@@pranavkulkarni6921 effort yes, but misplaced

[@pdlbackup]

The cinematography and jokes in this are amazing. While I already really enjoy your videos, I did NOT expect your new upload to be THIS good, I'm blown away. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this (and shoving butter in your ear)

[@naturesfunk]

instant follow! Super awesome info, media and editing.

[@luxs3]

This video about Windows 95 has no fucking business being this good.

[@Raykkie]

17:16 As someone who had to battle with encoding to read visual novels in the dark dark times of over a decade ago, this feels very personal

[@HerbySystems]

NEW MATTKC CONTENT!! 🥰🥰🥰

[@dad_hoc]

I only knew about encoding as a 16 year old because of Katawa Shoujo, man

[@izperehoda]

@@dad_hoc based

[@muizzsiddique]

Luckily these days you can just use WinRAR or PeaZip, set the encoding (from a drop-down list) and then extract.

[@cool-person1161]

I still see C:¥Users¥user¥Downloads

[@BrendanWeibrecht]

What an incredible journey! Your persistence is seriously admirable. I'm so glad you didn't only release the code - it's amazing to see the story behind work like this; and so well told ❤

[@paulcosta8297]

As a modern Delphi developer working on cutting-edge realtime hardware 3D GPU graphics for Win32 desktop in modern Object Pascal, I greatly appreciate the Delphi reference.

[@officialbigpp]

Absolutely epic video… can’t imagine how long this must’ve taken to pull together but the effort is hugely appreciated. Amazing!

[@zaid3ssaf1]

I have done exactly this but in reverse. Windows 95 16 bit software on windows 10. We had an old gateway PC for a UV-vis spectrometer that grad students kept alive with parts from ebay. Vendor wanted $10,000 for a the new software that runs on windows 10. So, I grabbed all the dependencies, registry keys, MFC dlls, and started them moving over from the Win 95 machine to the windows 10. Every time it threw an error, fix, patch, solve it, only to get another one. After a week it worked, flawlessly. It was like turning water into wine. We literally had a stack of floppy disks because thats the only way to get the data from the win 95.... But no more, now everyone can sign in with their SSO and get the data directly to their network drive. it was amazing...

[@DonaldDucksRevenge]

I'm such a fan of such hikes

[@VESTI]

"We literally had a stack of floppy disks because thats the only way to get the data from the win 95." Had a similar dilemma trying to rescue 15 years of Lloyd's Tensile machine data from a '95 box, fortunately it had an old optical drive so I could boot from a Puppy Linux CD which does support USB.

[@aharte17]

Oh boy, I hope you made a record of each of those items that were migrated, where they came from and where they go because if that machine ever were to be re-imaged… I’ve done a similar project but with a very “throw shit at the wall until it works” approach, got it working but then the machine went kaput before we could image it. Re-creating each step to get that old software working took longer than the first go-around. That was the day I learned creating step-by-step documentation is a vital task in the service of your future self not going insane.

[@MrSevenEleven]

I'm so confused, why did the vendor want $10,000?

[@jengelenm]

So 10.000 usd diveded by a 40hr/ work week…. This guy was charging 250 usd/hour !

[@SarcSaus]

As a .net dev I felt your pain when you discovered the GAC. So many problems on old framework versions were always just the fucking GAC.

[@PowerfullPC]

This was a fascinating trip of a video. I'm used to the context of DLL wrappers used for getting old defunct APIs (mainly for graphics cards) working on modern systems, so seeing the technique being used for backporting was a really interesting reversal of the idea.

[@Window873]

Love the vids. Keep it up! PS: Also congrats on making it to the news here in Britain theres a full on article about this vid!

[@SubwayToSchiff]

Oh wow, the lego island guy promised a technical deep dive, and delivered not only that, but a metric ton of editing AND an intriguing murder mystery on top of that. Great video!

[@blootiger27]

Matt: 48:56 “the kind of patience you only have as a kid” Also Matt: steps through a program for “days on end”

[@frankbucciantini388]

What you managed to pull off was amazing. Very well done! :)

[@Henry00]

Amazing work! I am glad you didn't give up and got it to work.

[@Chad_Thundernuts]

Dude, the fact that you actually went out into the world to act out scenes for 2 second bits, spliced seamlessly into the flow of the video is the epitome of dedication to the craft. Absolutely top notch stuff, mate! 😸👍

[@awesomeferret]

Many retro tech KZbinrs do this every once in a while, just saying (maybe retro Brite in your driveway doesn't count though).

[@TheSliderW]

Don't wanna mess up your 95 thumbs up but I +1 your comment.

[@awesomeferret]

@@TheSliderW it's 101 now haha

[@TheSliderW]

@@awesomeferret X )

[@f4micom]

IT'S HERE

[@MrCaseyJames]

I've enjoyed seeing you and MattKC pop up in each other's videos!

[@hemadegraduation846]

Smasnug :D

[@gerkim3046]

your comment shows 1 day ago on a video uploaded 1 hour ago. time traveller

[@esseferio]

You're really EVERYWHERE on KZbin !!! (and it's nice :))

[@maciejglinski6564]

old nerdy tech Cinematic Universe

[@iuhere]

The editing, and compilation of shots, the idea of presentation is just outstanding, its of cinema or production house level, apart from non gimbal handheld shots, in short enjoyed it even though i am no genius dev like you. Almost felt like watching a movie. Thanks for this one, good luck for future ones.

[@firehawk128]

This was an amazing project. Thanks for doing it!

[@csolisr]

Fun fact: the way that Microsoft used to make C# available everywhere was to acquire the company that created the unofficial port of C# to Linux and Mac, Mono, and take over the maintenance as an official MS project

[@stevethepocket]

Embrace, extend... then just keep doing that?

[@pave_unpaved]

yeah pretty much lmaoo although i guess by making the official runtime cross-platform it is _kinda_ being extinguished???

[@p4rk5h]

It's now named .NET Core, So, Extinguish as "Return of the .NET Framework"?

[@charliekahn4205]

@@stevethepocket why extinguish what makes money?

[@computerfan1079]

​@@p4rk5hEven better, it's now the only version and just called .Net it's pretty neat

[@marco_23p]

What's funny about this video is that it's basically a KZbinr movie and is better than other, "professional", KZbinr movies. On top of that, it's with a topic that you'd think would never be able to be generally entertaining. Fuckin' hell Matt, good job.

[@danielkeem8341]

incredible video!!! what a unique blend of filming

[@Maurime2]

Phenomenal video. Thanks for helping me sleep an hour later than I wanted. Your movie references hit hard. I thought I had subed to you after your Lego island videos, glad I found you again.

[@BartokandBadIdeas]

The fact that MattKC can revolutionize windows 95 backporting like this, creating something that will make similar projects indescribably easier and still have less than 1 million subscribers is insane to me. This man deserves millions of subscribers.

[@stellviahohenheim]

That's not how the algorithm works, you have to click bait, be the most annoying and pander to little kids to have millions of subscribers

[@cman2270]

6:36 You cheeky for that one

[@TheWagonroast]

yes

[@user-kk4vy7uq5o]

Vsauce reference

[@bungsbodulus]

You know it's real when you hear moon men

[@narfharder]

Dang, it's so -subliminal- familiar I missed it

[@thepiedish903]

Your producing is nuts with your different locations and effort put into this. Really cool.

[@ietsization]

instant top 10 youtube programming videos ever. Informing, hilarious, wholesome, you truly are insanely talented! Thanks you so much

[@ItsJoeyG]

Matt: Makes a fucking movie Also Matt: "Sorry it took so long to come out" Bro don't be so hard on yourself, this was incredible!!!!

[@dant5464]

Oh sweet, a new MattKC video! I'll watch this as a break from my job as a .net developer.

[@dant5464]

Oh

[@toara]

LMAO

[@martinrocket1436]

Have you seen the Reddit post of that truck driver who added a high end gaming PC to their truck so they could play truck simulators after work?

[@burp2019]

**clueless**

[@madgaming6667]

Now you have to use win95

[@nathanryan12]

Amazing video! That is such an interesting project. I am fascinated and nostalgic for the various Windows OSs of the past. It’s very interesting to learn about their inner workings.

[@Enzorojopasion]

Multiple times i found myself trying so hard to give this video more than one like... It was THAT good. Keep up the great work, from Argentina i wish you the best!!!!

[@othello7]

"50 minutes? what could he possibly have?" I didn't know the half of it. You nearly had me in tears by the end that was quite the incredible delivery

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

but if you embrace 30 year old version of windows Microsoft employees cannot spy on you record you on your webcam and master bate to you watching porn on your computer because windows 95 computers even the laptops did not have a built-in webcam so they cannot record from the webcam if you do not have one this is why new laptops have a built in webcam so Microsoft employees can record and watch you play with yourself and make you pay 45 grand so they can make the video disappear

[@calebchris000]

6:39 Vsauce logged in:

[@WastedDad]

To many vsauce comments and im 5 hours late, im deleting mine

[@calebchris000]

@@WastedDad Bro just keep it.

[@AhrkFinTey]

I've grown so accustomed to people using that as a vsauce reference that it didn't even register in my mind as one

[@Corialtavi]

Thanks for all the hard work it must have been to both do the backport and make this entertaining video.

[@alexs3216]

Matt I followed you since the beginning and always loved your videos. This feels like you are taking the next step really! I can imagine how much effort went into this and as soon as I get my financial situation sorted out (stupid loans) I will become a Patreon. Really love the enthusiasm and that you really go all into every project.

[@eric.ingram]

Several things. 1. This was awesome - production quality was phenomenal - guest stars were awesome - beard growth was on fire 2. Dude, grow your beard you devilish man you 3. Cannot overhype these long form videos

[@jamesstrummer2695]

Not having had a Qt 3.1.4 seems like such a wasted opportunity @04:06

[@ashleybyrd2015]

They hadn't invented pie back then so they couldnt make this joke :(

[@jaydeep-p]

​@@ashleybyrd2015I'm amazed

[@GerinoMorn]

What is Cute Pi? /j

[@lmost]

@GerinoMorn chibi Pi.

[@yahligit]

This video is truly outstanding - one of the best I've ever seen on this platform. It's entertaining, educational, inspiring and nostalgic all at once. Can't stress enough how incredible it is. Thank you for this masterpiece!

[@billkeithchannel]

Back in the late 80's I tried learning assembly by just using the C128 monitor and not an actual compiler program. You stepping through the program line by line brought nightmare flashbacks.

[@troybelding3816]

Don't feel bad. I keep having to step through bash scripts, HTML, and other server code on a regular basis - and I'm not a programmer. I just run some servers.

[@masteroftheinternetverse1296]

I clicked on this expecting a technological explanation of everything. I was not expecting a whole narrative arc, complete with a full noir detective case.

[@KyleHulton]

When you got to Orca, I had PTSD of forward porting installers for 16-bit apps to Windows XP for a School Network in a previous life!

[@DarkWinst]

As someone who has been working at Microsoft for more than 30 years, and started around Windows 3.1, what you have accomplished has me completely amazed. Impeccable work, dedication, and drive for trying to push the envelope on what is possible. Your approach to troubleshooting was amazing, and your reasons behind it were amazing. It was a mountain in front of you that you felt needed to be climbed. Great job, this is fantastic!

[@vjcodec]

This is amazing. Been listening to it in the car and am sure going to rewatch it tonight.

[@Duckiling]

The amount of effort and skill that went into this video is actually hella amazing, good stuff matt

[@soli-ethd]

The crazy thing is that this would've been incredibly impressive even *without* the excellent cinematic sections but he absolutely blew all expectations out of the water, this is MattKC's magnum opus

[@Duckiling]

@@soli-ethd He really gave us an entire movie

[@techcrafter_jw]

31:52 Just speculating that the VXD file might be called "No Debugger Present HeLPR" and just checks on a kernel level (therefore loaded as a driver) if there's an active debugger.

[@MiaKiesman]

either that or something to do with printing (Line PRinter). I know that's what the device was called in DOS

[@theunknown4834]

@@MiaKiesman I don't know whether to be afraid or amazed you guys know this...

[@Manawyrm]

Maybe something IPv6 related? NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol) Helper?

[@Manawyrm]

Actually, scratch that. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP is where .net lists all the installed .net versions and NDP might be short for ".net Developer Pack" (which is what Microsoft used to call .net's distributable package in development/early on and then of course they couldn't ever change that registry key after that). So ndphlpr.vxd might be some kernel module to help figure out which version of .net is installed?! Not sure why this would need a driver, but it'd fit.

[@YOEL_44]

​@@Manawyrm Have you seen when IPv6 was launched?

[@sharpenednoodles]

This video is absolute gold - thanks for going to hell and back just for the meme

[@bejoscha]

Wow, what have I just stumbled into and watched for an hour? Somebody freely deciding to expose himself to the most horrible torture and frustration I can imagine - and not even only showing it in so nice detail that everybody can feel the pain, but also wrapping it in some really enjoyable presentation that had me laughing at times. I still don't know why I watched this - I just know that I actually enjoyed it and might even have learnt a tiny bit in the process. If only the fact, that other people have a lot more endurance than me when following up their own chosen goals. I applaud you, both for the result, but also for producing this little gem of a video.

[@Ben79k]

First lego island, now the entire operating system. Unstoppable. Bravo

[@odytrice]

You have God level patience and dev skills and your filmmaking skill is on another level. I had a lot of work to do but I simply couldn't stop watching. This was an experience!

[@brendandonegan6788]

This is phenomenal! I'm happy to see you continuing to do bigger and better things!

[@C2DMNFNP]

So satisfying hahah, great skills with the choreography, writing, cinematography, editing too. . Mans knows things.!

[@halotroop2288]

Seeing f4mi and CS188 was the best part. I love this little corner of KZbin. Now I feel like I missing out on something by not knowing the first guesser.

[@dominiknovosel883]

For what it's worth, I only recognized f4mi.

[@melsbacksfriend]

​@@dominiknovosel883For me it's the other way around

[@graemewiebe2815]

Sounded like kenadian to me

[@jamiemoseley8327]

Loving this higher production value

[@Hislodin]

Well done! This is really amazing. Great video. Taking a seemingly boring concept and turning it into an engaging work of art.

[@lefebvrexavier1404]

I didn't expect to be so hooked given the subject. Great video !