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Products that do what The Virtual OS Museum does

Relive vintage operating systems right on your desktop

1. 1VM
   Virtual Machines in the Browser▲281

   2013 · blog.grunseid.com

2. 2
   Sacred OS▲155

   Retro OS in your browser

   2024

3. 3M4
   My 486 Server▲255

   Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.

   2022 · 486servu.dy.fi

4. 4XA
   xOS – a 32-bit OS for the PC▲115

   2016 · github.com

5. 5VB
   Very basic Unix-like operating system built when I was younger▲150

   2013 · github.com

6. 6
   Windows 93▲133

   Clickable OS of a world in-between Windows 3.1 and 95

   2015

7. 7AN
   A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#▲310

   2017 · github.com

8. 8
   Arclight▲72

   An open source server virtualization management solution

   2022

9. 9VV
   Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs▲198

   2021 · github.com

10. 10
    Virtual Windows 98▲158

    Use Windows 98 in your browser

    2016

11. 11SA
    Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration▲171

    2014 · github.com

12. 12
    KnightOS▲136

    An open-source OS for calculators

    2016

13. 13QC
    Qvm-Create-Windows-Qube: The most secure and private way to run Windows▲120

    2021 · github.com

14. 14WM
    Wiser – minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM, written in C▲136

    2021 · github.com

15. 15
    Kingsway▲91

    A retro RPG built into an operating system

    2017

16. 16XV
    Xs-vm – A small virtual machine written in Python▲34

    2015 · gedrap.github.io

17. 17WA
    Wox – an open source launcher for windows inspired by Alfred and Launchy▲54

    2015 · getwox.com

18. 18
    Ulauncher▲119

    An application launcher for Linux 🐧

    2017

19. 19AI
    Atuin, improved shell history with multi-machine sync▲48

    2021 · github.com

20. 20SU
    Swiss – Unix in a Box for Windows and Minoca OS▲13

    2016 · github.com

21. 21PC
    Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub▲46

    2020 · github.com

22. 22NO
    Nix on Windows –- proof-of-concept demo▲9

    How puffnfresh, my coworker, made a single command to download, assemble, and boot the VM image is arguably as cool as the port itself!

    Mar 2026 · github.com

23. 23KA
    Kvmapp – A lightweight VM manager for Linux without libvirt▲8

    2019 · flockport.com

24. 24VI
    Vintageterminals.io – a bootable museum of vintage OSes (13 so far)▲5

    Feb 2026 · vintageterminals.io

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