virtualization

[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.

[Demon Cleaner]

Last DOS version was 6.22, I remember having the original disks. For pure DOS games you could just stick with DOSBox then.

EDIT: Btw you can get bootdisks at bootdisk.com. And here is a direct d/l of DOS6.22 and here some other useful stuff for DOS.

[Harrison]

But not all games are still fully working with DOSBox so it will be useful having a proper full install of DOS just to play around with. I find some games sound gets messed up in DOSBox especially.