Windows 98 emulator program

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If you want to store the Windows 98 operating system on your host disk, leave the Machine Folder location as default. The maximum RAM size of the Windows 98 system on a physical computer is 1. However, you can configure a smaller RAM size for more stable installation in the virtual machine.

To do a clean system install, you need to create a new virtual hard disk. If there is a virtual machine you have installed before, you can add the virtual disk from this window. Do not change the default location to store the virtual HDD to the location where you will install the virtual machine. If you are going to do multiple operations on your virtual computer, you may need a larger disk size, so choose the disk space according to your needs.

After preparing the Windows 98 virtual machine, you need to make some important settings in terms of performance. Therefore, click Settings before starting your virtual PC. If you are going to install the system with the ISO image used in this article in the Storage settings, delete it as you will not need the Floppy device.

Select the Solid-State Drive option to configure the working principle of the Windows Leave the sound, network, or serial port settings of your virtual computer at the default setting. Select the Windows 98 FE First Edition ISO image that you downloaded to your computer or downloaded from the table at the bottom of the article and click the Open button. After adding the Windows 98 ISO image to the guest machine, check the VM settings for the last time and close the window.

After making all the necessary preparations, run your virtual computer to install Windows 98 with VirtualBox.

After booting the virtual computer with the startup disk, you can perform the Windows installation as if you were installing it on a physical computer. In the Microsoft Windows 98 Setup screen, press Enter to start the system setup. You can press F1 if you want more information about the installation or press F3 to exit the installation.

To edit the virtual disk of the virtual machine, you must configure the unallocated space. Press Enter on the Configure unallocated disk space option and continue.

After enabling large disk support, you must restart your virtual system. Follow the above steps again as you will start the installation from scratch. The file structure on the C drive will be checked automatically when the Microsoft ScanDisk tool is opened. You can change the directory where you want to install Windows 98 with the Other Directory option.

In the Windows installation options window, select Typical, which is enabled by default, and click Next. To list news or related content from the Internet specific to your region, select the country you live in and continue. The installation of Windows in the virtual machine may take time depending on the hardware performance of your host computer, so wait for the installation to complete.

In case of restarting your virtual machine, if the ISO file is mounted on the guest machine, this time boot your system from the Hard Disk. When your virtual computer restarts, the setup wizard will open again and configure the plug and play devices.

To close the Windows 98 welcome window at the next system boot, uncheck the relevant option and close the window. The VirtualBox virtualization program does not officially support Guest Additions for 9x versions of Windows.

Therefore, you may not be able to fully install the drivers of the old systems you have installed in the virtual machine. After installing Windows 98, you must configure the display adapter to be able to change the screen resolution.

Then continue by clicking Next in the driver update window. Check the View all drivers list option and click Next. To update the driver manually, open the ISO file location and select the vbemp. Drivers of USB 2. Create a new folder named USB on the desktop and after viewing the CD content, double-click the USB drive and extract the archived file to the folder you created. You can employ the 'CD' command to switch between folders, for example:.

Some classic apps also used to require that the installation CD was inserted during run time to prevent software piracy. DOSBox can cope with this. Although DOSBox attempts to emulate older PC's as faithfully as possible, you may need to fine tune your emulation settings. This is done by editing the configuration file DOSBox. From here you can edit all DOSBox configuration settings.

In Windows 10 the configuration file is found in your 'AppData' folder e. The configuration file can be modified using any simple text editor.