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RealPlayer — Windows 98 Simulator

Back in 1998

RealPlayer brought streaming audio and video to the dial-up web: in 1995 RealAudio let you hear a radio station over a 28.8k modem. RealPlayer 8 (2000) played .rm, .ra and .ram links from web pages, had a channel list, a radio tuner and the familiar blue "real" logo — and the long "Buffering..." waits everyone remembers.

What you can do here

RealPlayer 8 Basic in its Normal Mode, the way it looked in 2000: Play, Pause and Stop as round silver buttons, the purple position slider, the Location bar and the green status display.

Open MP3 or WAV files, or a .ram file that lists several clips to play one after another. Real streams (.rm, rtsp://) answer with RealPlayer’s own error messages, since the servers are long gone.