This Windows 98-inspired launcher on Apple App Store was designed with Claude AI as an experiment
In an era of AI-driven Windows 11 laptops, a developer has created a nostalgic ode to the good old ‘offline days’of the classic Windows 98 using AI. The developer has built a fully functional Windows 98-style desktop environment that runs large language models (LLMs) locally without any internet connection, complete with a classic Minesweeper-style game.
The project, known as AI Desktop 98, was created by a Reddit user named SoftSuccessful1414 after an experiment in which they instructed Anthropic’s Claude AI to role-play as if it were running on a 1998 Windows PC, with strict rules – no cloud access, no Wi-Fi, and only floppy-disk-era limitations.
