Windows 98
No I haven’t heard of it. Seems like it’s what I’m looking for. I’ll definitely give it a shot.
I don’t have a specific game to run, I’d like to install all games I played as a kid and I prefer to start with an install that supports games the most.
Yeah VirtualBox is my goto solution for this. I have Win95, WinXP, Win2000, Win8.1, Win10, Linux Ubuntu, Android86x, OSX Leopard
I basically used the original disks/licenses I had from older machines or grabbed isos following online tutorials using developer testing licenses
I actually use virtual box as my work pc. So my work and personal is separated.
I can easily backup/snapshot my work machine or move my work VM to another physical machine. Same using a VM to run any archived games you might find online that may have hidden malware that kills your main machine.
Connecting to work VPN within a VM and free to listen to music streams or Netflix in my main desktop without receiving any angry IT emails from work.
Because my main laptop(win8) is now overdue for replacement I am thinking to install Linux and VirtualBox and just run it as a VM server.
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Yes I stumbled upon PCEM with voodoo. It’s great and works just fine.
It’s has 2 issues though:
- Sound is stuttering sometimes.
- Some dos games runs slow. I don’t know if it’s the cpu or gpu. The game I tested was TFX. But I managed to run it on dosbox with no isssues.
Do you know if I find ROMs for faster CPU? The fastest I have is Pentium 2 450mhz
Playing anything via virtualbox is... rough. If it's a DOS game, try dosbox or something similar. If you really need DX... whatever win98 used... then setting up a very specific Wine instance is the way to go.
I agreed it is a bit of overhead to install and update the OS in the VM, but once setup its easy to snapshot or copy the VM. So if I install a game that doesn't work out I just roll back. I have tried Wine over the years and although it's getting better I am a dos and windows native. Linux on the side with the manual or Google open. 🤪
I want to download all games I played in the late 80s and early 90s.
Dosbox is great with dos games. But I prefer win98 for the nostalgia.
If you're serious about the nostalgia, then your best bet is to find a 32-bit processor and build a dedicated win98 system. ISOs are available everywhere, most with updates and a disabled registration system. You might even try a 2k or XP system. Win2K was my gaming system of choice for many years, thanks to its backward-compatibility.
I prefer to run it on a virtual machine or emulator as I don’t have a space for dedicated machine.
Hmm... well, VMWare used to make a virtual desktop app that was far superior in the way it handled DirectX apps, but I don't know if they still have/support that.
I have the hardware in boxes but some of its now failing with age 😭 Yes Win2000 was mine, same with XP
I didn’t know Dosbox can run Windows.
Definitely will give it a shot. Thanks