Windows 95
Software theme
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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
WIN 1995
WIN 1997
WIN 2000-09-22
WIN 2001
WIN 1998-07-31
WIN 1997
WIN 2000-12-14
WIN 1996
WIN 1997-07-01
WIN 1997-09-30
WIN 1998
WIN 1997-09
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).
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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* DOS: almost full
DirectX:
* Shipped with DirectX 1.0
* DirectX 8.0a last to support
- 4 replies
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Games by year
A | 1990 - Win3.0 released |
B | 1992 - Win3.1 released |
C | 1995 - Win95 released 1995 - DirectX 1.0 released |
D | 1996 - DirectX 2.0 released 1996 - DirectX 3 released |
E | 1997 - DirectX 5 released |
F | 1998 - Windows 98 released 1998 - DirectX 6 released |
G | 1999 - DirectX 7 released |
H | 2000 - Windows 2000 released 2000 - DirectX 8 released |
I | 2001 - 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.