You're right! It was my disk. I downloaded a new ISO of the disk, mounted it to my Windows 98 virtual machine, and it worked!

DOSbox wasn't really working out for me, so I installed MS DOS and then Windows 3.1 in my Virtual PC. When I try to run the setup for Zoombinis in Windows 3.1 I just get a black screen with flickering white lines... time to try Windows 95? 😖

I installed it on VPC myself, but from an iso that I downloaded since I don't have a CD for Windows 98. I'm going to try DOSbox now. Thanks for the tip!

Oh, also, I get this error with any executable that I try to open.

I'm in the same situation: runnings Windows 7 and trying to play my old Zoombinis game. I have Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 running with Windows 98 installed. Put in my Zoombinis disk... and got this error message when I tried to open the set-up. Any ideas of what I need to do? http://i143.photobucket. …