Launching today
The Virtual OS Museum
Relive vintage operating systems right on your desktop
48 followers
Relive vintage operating systems right on your desktop
48 followers
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
Flowtica Scribe
Hi everyone!
Andrew spent over 20 years collecting and configuring more than 1,700 operating system installations, from 1948’s Manchester Baby to early mobile OSes, and packaged them into one ready-to-run VM.
It’s genuinely impressive how much obscure and historically important software is made runnable here. At a time when a lot of what we interact with is generated and smoothed over, there’s a certain appeal in being able to touch these older, rougher systems directly :)
Are these full emulated environments where you can actually install software and poke around, or more curated snapshots that show the UI without real interactivity?
Anyway that's awesome! Congrats!
Funny timing. I was wanting to put this to actual use. We've got a track coming out called Nostalgi (I make music) and I wanted that degraded VHS look for the Instagram Reels, without it feeling like the same one-click filter everyone's already scrolled past. This models the signal instead of faking it, so it should hold up. Bookmarking the browser version.