This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM.
A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM are bundled, and one-click launch scripts are provided for Windows and Linux; these use an existing VirtualBox or QEMU install if one is found, or run the bundled one if no existing install is present.
Currently over 1700 installations are included, representing over 250 different platforms and nearly 600 distinct OSes, spanning the entire history of stored-program computing from the Manchester Baby of 1948 (the first stored-program computer) to the present day, and new VMs are always being added to the collection. Nearly every well-known OS is represented here in some form (along with a lot of very obscure ones as well).
Both a “full” and a “lite” version are available; the full version includes everything pre-downloaded and can be used fully offline, whereas the lite version doesn’t include any disk/tape/etc. images for installations, downloading them the first time an installation is run. Automatic and manual updates are supported, so you can always have access to new OS installations as they are added without having to re-download the entire VM.
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