Fyi, a machine like this would be able to run Fusion 3.64 perfectly fine under Win98.

Of course but I'm trying to get my favorite emu genecyst working. its simply classic. I remember using genecyst and the games seemed a lot funner to play on it than modern emulators!

You should open a MS-DOS console, and then launch Genecyst from there. Maybe reading that text can give you hints.

Already tried that. I also tried to launch on windows xp (dual boot). I don't understand what the text means. There was a page fault and exception amongst other 'random looking' things iirc.. tried to print screen but doesn't work. I am wondering if the video card is the problem its a Geforce Go 7300 using the tweaked drivers. I can only use basic hardware acceleration but on windows xp i can use full acceleration and it still won't work. I suppose I could try the emulator on my athlon64 3400 2gb ram and sapphire agp hd 3850 and see what happens if anything.

I have fond memories of Genecyst (late 90s, early 00s). That and Nesticle, Znes, UltraHLE...those were the days of emulation...

If you happen to have another lower end (slower single CPU, lower ram) system around, I would try that same Genecyst executable and see what happens.

I do have an athlon 800mhz but my lcd tv in my bedroom is sitting on top of it. Its not plugged into anything. Not sure it would be worth it or not. I wish I could get the emu working on something I have plugged in and ready to use.

Not sure why it would crash under Win 98. Maybe try to edit the GEN.INI file and set a different screen mode like 320x200?

Or you could run it inside dosbox. (emulator inside an emulator...)

its boot into dos to play eh?
got yourself config. sys and autoexec.bat set up for it?
hihmem.sys and emm386.exe?

edit ; IT WORKS GREAT ON DOSBOX! 😀