Windows 98 questions

[Infraction Jack]

I originally wanted to put windows 98 on my net book but I am unable to find drivers for anything. I want to play some old windows and dos games. I tried installing to a VM first but I have a problem. Is there any way to get 3d acceleration working for a windows 98 VM?

Would I be better off installing Ubuntu and wine?

 

[Nothinman]

VMware Workstation and VirtualBox let guests have 3D acceleration, however I have no idea if you'll be able to find Win9X drivers for it. You can probably play the DOS games in DOSBox, but getting Win9X stuff working on a modern OS can be a chore because there were a lot of hack games that accessed hardware directly which isn't possible any longer.

WINE is a good option, but you should check out the app DB to see how well the games work before diving into that.

 

[debian0001]

You're better off with DosBox for any does related games.

 

[Infraction Jack]

Thanks for the reply. I know that virtual box does not have 3d acceleration for anything older than XP. I will check out the wine app DB since a new version of wine was just released.

 

[xgsound]

If Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Fate of Atlantis) or Sierra games are among those games you want to play, check out http://www.scummvm.org/ . It is a virtual machine to play many old dos games on new operating systems that has continuously expanded by it's user base.


Jim

 

[Infraction Jack]

That ScummVM program is awesome, thanks for letting me know about it.

 

[6string]

Can't you find most dos games online now days? Like others have said you will have a hard time getting win98 running on new systems, more trouble than its worth.

 

[RU482]

you could always author new drivers

 

[bico]

seriously, games that require 9x or older systems would happily run in pure software rendering, just run them in virtual machine and don't worry

 

[msparrow88]

best OS ever.

 

[bico]

i disagree, xp is superior, much more bsod resilient

 

[Infraction Jack]

I will try software rendering for some games, others give a direct 3d error though.