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It`s hard to find infos about this theme. And where ever you find something and fix a problem the next two problems come up
Where ever you go, you see no more maintenances.
I want to play old dos/win games. did try a lot of ways but all end in nowhere...
DosBox
It`s nice, works for some games but some don`t.
VirtualBox
Is nice, but does not support Dos and not support Win95. Win98 will run but there are no guest additions available. WinXP with guest additions works fine but right now this is an up to date system.
vmware
The free vmware server graphic is to slow.
Vmware workstation which is not free works better. Guest additions are available for Windows 98. Graphic is working with 1024x768 very nice, Sound is working and you can drag & drop files inside the vm.
I tested to run Star Trek The Next Generation - A Final Unity but Win98 is still to new for this game.
Win98 inside vmware server could be sill nice for older windows games.
Dos 7.x from Win98 is very bad. After long searching I found a dos driver for soundblaster (the virtual sound card). But this one doesn`t install because dos is newer then 6.22.
dos 6.22 inside vmware
dos 6.22 would be maybe the best for old dos games but the way there is hard.
You can install it inside vmware, but then you are kinda finished.
No guest additions are available for dos, so exchanging data with the vm is very hard.
I did try to create a .iso where I included driver for cd, mouse and sound. Dos could not read it because I think the cd was not in dos 6.22 compatible format (fat16?). Is there an iso creator which creates dos compatible iso`s which I can mount with vmware then?
dos 6.22 on real comp
This might be good but currently I have no free harddrive for that and I don`t want to mess up my productive system. Dualboot with dos 6.22 / win xp is no longer supported.
on real comp...
I have intel p4 and I am a bit scared that my real hardware is not compatible with dos anymore and that I won`t get drivers for graphic and so on.
I don´t even have a real disk anymore so it`s hard to use this bootdisks.
dos on usb stick or usb harddrive
This would be really nice but I don`t think dos can be booted from usb and read from usb? Can it?
questions
What is the best solution to be able to run any[/b] old dos / old win application?[/b]
Are there some premade distributions for old dos / win? I did like to have some preconfigured dos with all needed drivers or premade vmware/whatever images.