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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

Jamming Windows 95 onto a PS2, goes about as well as you might expect, but the Sisyphean struggle is still compelling viewing

We've all seen countless attempts by people trying to run older console games on a PC, either through reverse engineering the code or the use of emulators, but one plucky hardware modder has decided that the time was ripe to do the reverse: Get an old games console to become a PC by running Windows.

Okay, so the operating system in question just happens to be Windows 95, so it's not exactly what you'd call recent, but when you consider that the hardware chosen for the attempt was a PlayStation 2, the choice of software is perhaps more understandable. Anyway, the foolhardy brave modder who undertook the task was modding YouTube channel MetraByte (via Hackaday).

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