"Windows Update Restored" Site

[voidp]

This project aims at restoring the legacy Windows Update websites, and allows older operating systems (Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP) to obtain updates like they used to.

http://windowsupdaterestored.com/

[Mogician]

Nice work! Good to see the legacy Windows Update coming back.
However, in my Windows NT 4.0, this website will throw an error, which says "Line: 41, Character: 221, Error: Invalid Character, Code: 0".
Perhaps this is related to the language settings, and the website is not fully compatible with Chinese yet?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/1rf64Xu

[WULover]

Thank you for your feedback ! The error you're seeing is not important at all, and we'll add Chinese soon

[Random_User]

I wonder how they managed to recreate the backend (especially the algorithm for determining which updates should be available, and which are recommended).

The leaked source code for four versions of Windows NT, might contain some of the relevant information, but that still wouldn't explain Windows 9x.

[WULover]

It was pretty easy: we got the website from the Wayback Machine and modified it a bit to redirect to our servers. Also, the Windows leaked source code is unuseful for this, the only thing we need is the inventories.