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V9 Retro Controller: monitor and control a fleet of Windows 9x and 2000 machines - Velocity Drivers

Tool · Windows and macOS desktop app · BSD 2-Clause

V9 Retro Controller

A fast desktop app for watching and driving Windows 95, 98 and 2000 (and DOS) machines that run the V9x Remote Agent, a whole fleet at once: status, screenshots, inventory, a command console, files, processes, registry, input, power, agent updates and a built-in VNC viewer. It finds agents on your network by itself.

Download for Windows · 75.0 MBSource on GitHub

Release 0.1.0, 24 Oct 2026. One self-contained exe: no installer and no .NET to install. It keeps itself up to date.

The dashboard: agent counts, a card per machine with its latest screenshot (Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000), and recent activity
The dashboard, with three machines running the agent.
The built-in VNC viewer showing a retro Windows desktop
The built-in VNC viewer.

What it does

Features

  • Fleet dashboard

    Online, offline and rebooting counts, a card per machine with its latest screenshot, recent activity, and a sortable, filterable table with bulk poll, screenshot and pause. Polling carries on with the window closed to the tray.

  • Finds machines itself

    mDNS discovery of agents on the LAN (agent 0.8.0+). Machines are tracked by their install ID, so a changed DHCP address is followed and a different machine at a saved address is flagged.

  • Everything per machine

    Live screenshots and history, inventory (CPU, memory, drives, display, network, Windows, BIOS, devices with problem codes), a command console with streamed output, a drag-and-drop file browser, processes, a read-only registry browser and the window list.

  • Built-in VNC viewer

    For the agent’s V9XVNC.EXE, with scaling, special keys and Ctrl+Alt+Del, clipboard both ways and a pop-out window. VNC can be started, stopped, enabled and disabled from the app.

  • Power and input

    Reboot, shut down and hard reset, with reboot proof by boot counter and token; click and type through the agent when VNC is off.

  • Agent updates

    Update agents directly from the release server (0.13.1+ stage their own update and hot-swap it in), through this PC (any agent from 0.6.0), or from a package folder.

  • Quick connect and Ctrl+K

    Type an address to control a machine without saving it, or search for any agent or action.

  • Remote access

    One Windows PC can host the agents, history and polling for other copies of the app, such as a Mac, over HTTPS with a pinned certificate and a revocable token per client.

Platforms

Download and build

Windows: download V9RetroController-<version>-win-x64.exe from the release and run it.

macOS: the app runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, built from source with scripts/build-mac.sh. Release downloads are Windows-only for now; the Mac app will be added to a later release.

Built with .NET 10 and Avalonia. Free software under the BSD 2-Clause licence.

Build from source (.NET 10 SDK)
dotnet build V9Retro.sln
dotnet test V9Retro.sln
dotnet run --project src/V9Retro.App