I've recently been trying to set up Windows 95 in QEMU 0.13.1. So far, it's been an epic failure. The darn thing always freezes about 4% into the hardware detection. I've tried disabling ACPI and HPET emulation. I've even tried disabling network card emulation. None of it works. It always freezes. Is there anybody who's succeeded in getting Win95 installed on a recent version of QEMU or is it just totally borked?
🤣 QEMU has been like that for quite some time. If it isn't one problem it's another and if something gets fixed for 9x it'll be broken again by the next version.
Use a different emulator.
VPC or Vmware Player.
wrote:🤣 QEMU has been like that for quite some time. If it isn't one problem it's another and if something gets fixed for 9x it'll be broken again by the next version.
Use a different emulator.
VPC or Vmware Player.
I would, but VPC doesn't run on Linux and VMware Player needs some extra CPU instructions that my laptop lacks.
Virtualbox? But yah, Win95 support sucks on it.
The last QEMU that worked well for Win95 (for me) is 0.11.1
wrote:Virtualbox? But yah, Win95 support sucks on it.
The last QEMU that worked well for Win95 (for me) is 0.11.1
I'm too lazy to go outside the Fedora repositories to build an old version of QEMU, so I guess that means no retro Windows on my laptop. I guess I'll just have to stick with doing my retro stuff on my desktop Windows gaming/photo editing box, which DOES have VPC installed.
wrote:I'm too lazy to go outside the XXXX repositories to build an old version of YYYY.....
Me too...and you just listed my main pet peeve about Linux.
Until that is "fixed", I don't see Linux ever making it to the desktop mainstream. 😒
/off topic
wrote:Me too...and you just listed my main pet peeve about Linux. Until that is "fixed", I don't see Linux ever making it to the desk […]
wrote:I'm too lazy to go outside the XXXX repositories to build an old version of YYYY.....
Me too...and you just listed my main pet peeve about Linux.
Until that is "fixed", I don't see Linux ever making it to the desktop mainstream. 😒/off topic
Well, in general I like Linux better. It's just that if I wanted to have to search online and manually install programs rather than pick them from a list and have to computer do the rest, I'd use Windows as my main system 😉
