First post, by markoldgamer
Please forgive me if this question has been asked before. I suspect I know the answer, but I'll ask anyway....
I am active on a forum for a piece of virtualisation software and I dared to suggest they provide better compatibility with older operating systems such as DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 98. One reply shot me down in flames claiming it was almost impossible to run Windows 98 in a virtual machine on the most recent hardware with virtualisation enabled (something I will be trying myself later to see if they are right) and they suggested that the route to use was Bochs (which I find impossible to use) or Dosbox. They claimed that there was 'experimental support' for Windows 98 under Dosbox and that would, in the fullness of time, be expanded to give full support. I have checked the official Dosbox lists and see Windows 95 and 98 are both rated as 'runable', which reading between the lines means they do something but don't come anywhere close to being properly usable. So, my question is this. Will Dosbox be expanded to include full and proper Windows 95 and 98 support or is this guy, as I expect, going to be waiting in vain to run Windows 9x and its associated applications inside Dosbox.