virtualization

[Submeg]

Wow that is cool. Let me know how it goes...running games on DosBox sure is a pain

[Harrison]

If you want to try it out, Microsoft Virtual PC is completely free. Mad I know but Microsoft actually purchased this product and then made it freeware!

So you can download it for free officially and then try it out. Virtual PC is very easy to use. Just install it, then you can setup a new virtual machine. During the setup you setup a virtual harddrive. Think of this like the HDF files in WinUAE. They are one big file on you HD that acts as a virtual HD for the virtual machine. And a great thing about these is that they expand as needed, you could tell Virtual PC to make a 10GB virtual HD file, but it won't actually use 10GB on your HD, but expand as needed. So if you installed Windows 98 on to it and it only needed 300MB then that is all the size of the virtual HD file would be.

Once you have the virtual machine setup with the virtual HD file in place you then just start it. Then everything else is just like a real PC. Insert the OS install CD and install your chosen OS to the virtual HD. I use Virtual PC with Windows 98 and it works perfectly. Give it a try.

You can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 from here.

[Demon Cleaner]

I never tried that out, but as I'm still having a copy of Win98 lurking around somewhere, I might test it and install it on my barebone PC.

[Demon Cleaner]

I just installed Virtual PC and installed Win98 to it, works like a charm. I don't know why I didn't install it earlier. Great that you mentioned it here

[Harrison]

It is great for Windows 98. As I said above, it's better than DOSBox because it is more compatible with older games as you are installing them on a real version of the OS.

One thing I haven't tried is setting up an install of just DOS. This could be good for much older PC games that run in DOS as I remember some games still wouldn't run in 98 from DOS mode. Anyone remember what the last official version of DOS was before Windows 95?

[v85rawdeal]

I beleive it was 6.0, because I know that Win95 came with version 7.0.

I may be wrong, but I hope not. Hope that helps in some way Harrison!

[Harrison]

Thanks. Just wondered as I was going to see if I could find it online to download and install.