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Problems with Win95

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First post, by Envisaged0ne

Posted on 2014-09-09, 01:12

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I noticed in the compatibility list, that Win95 is currently supported. I installed Win95 and it boots up just fine. I'm using the svga_s3 graphics driver and it seems to work without any problems. But when I try playing some games, like Win KQ5 & Return of Arcade games, they will play fine for about a minute, then DosBox completely crashes, giving me a message stating DosBox Dos Emulator has stopped working. Is this just a known issue and there are still bugs that need to be worked out? Or does anyone know of a solution that might fix this problem?

Reply 1 of 7, by collector

Posted on 2014-09-09, 02:04

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I'm not sure where you found this, but Win9x is not officially supported. While it can be installed, don't expect any kind of stability.

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Reply 2 of 7, by King_Corduroy

Posted on 2014-09-09, 02:08

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Why in the world would you run DOSbox on a DOS compatible computer?

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Reply 3 of 7, by collector

Posted on 2014-09-09, 02:53

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He is trying to run Win95 in DOSBox, not the other way around. He didn't say what his host system is.

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Reply 4 of 7, by Envisaged0ne

Posted on 2014-09-09, 03:21

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Correct Collector 😀 I'm running Win 7 64 bit and wanted to run Win95 through DosBox for the 16 bit games. Anyway, I actually found the solution to the problem. I googled around and found out I had to install a S3 Trio32/64 PCI graphics driver. Now the games play perfectly fine. I assumed Win95 was supported because I checked the compatibility list from the DosBox website and it shows the status of Windows 95 as Supported for version 0.74, with a green bar indicating it should run fairly well

http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=W