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Mount the disk… sudo mkdir /media/floppy1/

If you’re using Linux, you can make a blank floppy disk image with this command mkfs.msdos -C /path/imagefile.img 1440 I found it easiest to make a floppy image.

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You need to download the NDIS.VXD file (there’s a link in the article above) and copy it onto your virtual machine. This is due to the fact that modern machines are much much faster than those that Windows 98 used to run on. However, on booting up the VM, the following error occurred The Windows image formatted the C: drive for me, I didn’t have to insert a boot disk or fdisk the hard drive.

Windows 98 virtualbox how to#

The following pages how to install Windows 98 on VirtualBoxīe aware, however, that most of the initial steps outlined were unnecessary: I simply chose install from CD. As I already had the CDs, I created the ISOs using Brasero on Ubuntu.

You’ll need ISOs for Windows 98 and the games you want to use.

If you’re not familiar with it, there are lots of tutorials on the web. Given the number of posts online by other people attempting to run Obsidian, I thought I’d share the process I followed. It should be no problem on a more modern machine. I did the following on an old laptop (> 10 years) with Ubuntu installed. The games won’t install on Windows 10, but there was an old Windows 98 installation disk amongst the CDs and so a solution presented itself. She was a big fan of adventure games, in particular MYST and Obsidian, and she wanted to play them again.

GitHub Action npm i fails when package.My mother unearthed a load of old CD ROMs in her attic over Christmas.

GitHub Action running npm build fails on warnings.

The difference between developer and architect view of a system.

Editing files in your GitHub repo online with Codespaces.

Next Post Next Apple’s product design and attention to detail (the 1st gen Mac Pro) Search for: Search Meta However for nostalgia’s sake, if there’s something you want to play around with to re-live just how awesome Windows 98 was (?), then it’s definitely doable in VirtualBox, but not a great experience. Given that VirtualBox does not have any supported/provided Guest Additions for WIndows 98 (or 95 for that matter), running under VirtualBox is incredibly slow and sluggish. An interesting IE feature that was discontinued from Vista onwards.

I remember using this ‘active desktop’ feature in 98, where you could have web content pinned to your desktop. “Windows 98 supports new, cutting edge technologies” … I’m glad 98 made my computer “more entertaining”.

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Welcome to Windows 98 Setup: “the software that makes your computer more powerful, reliable, manageable, and entertaining”. I booted the VM from a floppy disk image (the same I downloaded for my 95 installation attempt, from here), partitioned and formatted the virtual disk, and then ran ‘setup’ from the CD: There’s a great post here that describes VM specific settings compatible for installing 98 – I went with 1GB RAM and a virtual 10GB disk and followed the other suggested settings. Moving on then, next up, installing Windows 98.

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More likely the issue is related to VT-x virtualization (I can’t find the option to turn off VT-x support on my VirtualBox install), or other posts suggest this is most likely to do with host CPUs faster than 2.1GHz, and my Mac Pro has dual 2.8 Xeons. What on earth Windows 98 was doing back then initializing iOS devices is interesting, but beside the point 🙂 This error is described in this KB article but I’m not sure updating the BIOS in my Quantum hard disk is really applicable in this case. My attempt to install Windows 95 on Virtualbox on my Mac Pro didn’t turn out too well as by the time the installation completed it refused to boot with the error: "While initializing device IOS.