If we could get tabworks I would love that

if you're interested in golden era UI computing, check out Trinity Desktop which is a fork of KDE3.5

It needs the BSOD screensaver from XScreensaver, for sure. And, maybe, DOSBox-X or DOSEmu2.

Also:

- Pan

- Sylpheed

- Audacious with the WinAMP theme

- Hexchat kinda has a MIRC vibe

- Parole looks like WMP from < v9 releases

- You can't simulate a dialer, but with trickle you can mimic a 56k/ISDN connection pretty well

- SyncTERM for BBS's

- ScummVM, with just a bilinear filter, because I played tons of adventures

- There's an SDL2 reimplementation of Space Cadet Pinball at github.

- Trigger Rally would look like a great shareware game

- Pidgin, hands down. Either you were an AOL user in America, or a MSN user in Europe. It has emoticons, not emojis. Add that annoying notification theme with a sound and that would be the very late 90's/early 00's (my early teen years)

Sounds good

Why are recreations of old UIs always differently wrong? Is pixel-perfection too much to ask for?

I'm trying to forget that horror show and you want to put it under a spotlight! If I never see a bsod or windows registry again it'll be too soon.