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First post, by Sandi1987

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Should i use DOSBox or Windows 98 in VM?

Reply 1 of 7, by Zup

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Dosbox. VMs usually don't emulate soundcards very well .

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Reply 3 of 7, by kenrouholo

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VMWare also has no video drivers for 9x, so you're looking at 2d only. Not a big deal for most DOS games but you'll have very little luck playing any Win98 games. You can find videos about people supposedly installing some driver with VMWare or Virtualbox, but ignore them, I've tried it and it's just a bunch of crap.

So yeah, Dosbox between the two

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Reply 4 of 7, by notsofossil

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Just get a nice Pentium M laptop if space is really an issue. Emulators and virtualization are a poor replacement for real hardware.

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Reply 6 of 7, by Rekrul

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kenrouholo wrote:

VMWare also has no video drivers for 9x, so you're looking at 2d only. Not a big deal for most DOS games but you'll have very little luck playing any Win98 games. You can find videos about people supposedly installing some driver with VMWare or Virtualbox, but ignore them, I've tried it and it's just a bunch of crap.

I find it strange that one of the most obvious for a VM, running Win98 software, is the one with the least support.

"Run Windows 7, 8 and 10!"

" I can already do that on real machines. I want to run Windows 98, which is no longer practical on current systems."

"Sorry, we don't support that."

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Just write a damn video driver for it. It can't be that hard for them,

Reply 7 of 7, by Jo22

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VMWare is mainly for corporate stuff. Win 9x, on ther other hand, is a consumer's product.
I assume that's why there's little interest in supporting it specifically.
Basic compatibility incl. 2D graphics is provided, after all.

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