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The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems right on your desktop

2026-06-07T09:46:20-04:00

Coherent and Flex OS, to Lisa and Mac OS. | Image: Virtual OS Museum

The Virtual OS Museum isn't a physical place, it's a collection of over 1,700 distinct installations of over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms that you can download and run via emulation right on your computer. It's largely the work of one man, Andrew Warkentin, a developer and OS historian who has been slowly building his collection of OS images since 2003.

The library spans nearly the entire history of computing from 1948's Manchester Baby, the first stored computer program, to early builds of Android from 2011. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of obscure OSes in there, including countless DOS variants, MOS for the Acorn BBC Mas …

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82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA 2K

2026-06-06T11:08:43-04:00

Can you go undefeated? | Screenshot: The Verge

82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb luck. The goal is to draft a team of players that could (theoretically) have a perfect 82-0 season.

Obviously, if you just had free rein to pick whoever you wanted from throughout history, there would be little challenge. The twist is that the site randomly selects a team and an era, and then you pick a single player. So, for example, if you pulled the Knicks and 2020s, you might pick Jalen Brunson as your point guard, then you'd get a new team and era to select your center from.

You can reshuffle the team once, and the era once, if you don' …

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