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Windows 95

Software theme

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410
games
5
platforms

Runs natively on Win95 and is supported by the developers/publishers on it.

Notable people involved: Jim Norwood, Charles Deenen, Dimitri Joannides, Frank Maddin and Ken Silverman

Alternate names: Win95, Windows 4.00

Win95 supported only single CPU, so you may have to take this into account when running games made for it on modern operating systems and hardware. For example games with threading may lock up or crash if they're not limited to single core/CPU due to lack of thread synchronization.

Due to Win95 being largely DOS based operating system in the background, many games advertized as W95 games are actually DOS games (requiring the use of DOSBox or similar emulators), or use programming practices really only suitable for DOS and thus becoming a nightmare to get working on anything modern (a fact mentioned by, for example, GOG.com team about certain unmentioned but possibly indefinitely delayed re-releases).
Backwards compatibility:
* DOS: almost full

DirectX:
* Shipped with DirectX 1.0
* DirectX 8.0a last to support
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Parent group

Microsoft Windows

Games by year

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A1990 - Win3.0 released
B1992 - Win3.1 released
C1995 - Win95 released
1995 - DirectX 1.0 released
D1996 - DirectX 2.0 released
1996 - DirectX 3 released
E1997 - DirectX 5 released
F1998 - Windows 98 released
1998 - DirectX 6 released
G1999 - DirectX 7 released
H2000 - Windows 2000 released
2000 - DirectX 8 released
I2001 - Win95 support ceased

The first Windows 95 video game was released in 1991.

Activision, Microsoft, Sierra On-Line and Hasbro Interactive published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows383
MS-DOS13
Win3.111
Mac OS Classic2
Linux1

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