It was extremely slow even on my superfast system. I got it up and running fairly quickly from the start, but not particularly well. I had to do some extra tweaking/configuration to get Win98 running more smoothly in VirtualBox. Since Windows 98 will automatically detect VirtualBox network interface, this is probably the easiest way. To get the files over to the VM, you have two options – over the network, or by creating an ISO file and mounting on the VM. Now all you need to do is install some games. You should then be able to change number of colours and resolution. Apply changes and restart virtual machine. Also change the monitor to one of the generic Super VGA types. Once SciTech is installed, open the configuration interface, and enable SciTech video driver. Download is an ISO file, so you can mount the ISO in virtual CDROM. After doing a bit of research, I found that SciTech Display Doctor is the best bet for enabling higher resolution in your VM. Once virtual machine is configured, run Windows setup.Īfter setup is completed, you’ll need to install new graphics card drivers, as Windows would be running in 16 colour mode and 640×480 resolution. I’ve set it up with 512MB RAM (Windows 98 can’t handle more), 10GB dynamically allocated hard disk, and 128MB of video memory. Virtual machine that I’m creating will run on VirtualBox, under Mac OS X.įirst step is to configure virtual machine. However, you could also use Window 95 / ME. I’ve chosen Windows 98 SE as the OS, since I already have installation media and it is a bit more modern that Windows 95. The easiest (and cheapest) way is to set up a virtual machine running an old copy Windows. I already use DOSBox for playing old DOS games, but there are a lot of classic that only run under Windows. This weekend’s project is setting up retro gaming system for old Windows games.

Windows 98 virtualbox image