I guess is a better try with PCem, at least for me, I’m not so familiar with VMWare i used to use this long ago it but never worked for me they way I wanted to (pure gaming 😄) , I guess that the problem with VMware is more likely for me due to drivers running in a completely virtual machine, although It’s been a long way now for this great program because I have seen that you can put drivers to work in the virtual system while running some windows is like win 7, win 8 for example but it will never be the same. VMware will virtualized everything, ram, display, core threads, so it will create a virtual environment so you can runa an operating system on it. PCEm by other hand will emulate real hardware were you can just install real drivers for that real hardware. Sorry if this was not helpful at all but for me I believe that you will have better luck with PCEm, specifically running windows 98SE.

Any way wish you good luck with that my friend 👍🏻