Would emulating windows 98....

[imported_goku]

be a very good idea instead of me setting up my system to multiboot into windows 98? Is it possible to play games when "emulating 98"? I was considering making a multiboot with windows 98/XP but because I already have XP installed, this task would be significantly harder so I've been told that I should just emulate it instead...

 

[topdoubledigit]

WHY DO YOU WANT 98 IN THE FIRST PLACE?

 

[imported_goku]

BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY WINDOWS 98 GAMES THAT REFUSE TO PLAY ON WINDOWS XP NO MATTER WHAT I DO. DO YOU HAVE TO YELL!?

 

[Mickey Eye]

I too would like to be able to run Mechwarrior 3. What other games don't run?

 

[xtknight]

Which games? There may be solutions.

 

[PhreakyMike]

did you try running in compatability mode? I had NES emulators and that would work only on windows 98, so I made them win 98 compatable (Rightclick icon, properties, run as: windows 98

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Which games? There may be solutions.

One game that comes to mind is NFS4 which under any circumstance no matter what you do, will NOT run on XP, PERIOD.

 

[jazzboy]

For NFS4 have you patched the game? Cos when I installed the original version it worked fine upder WinXP (incl. SP1 & 2). I remember trying one of the no-cd hacks before (before anyone flames me this was so that I could do multiplayer back in those days) and it didn't work, but that may also be the case for patches.

 

[sigs3gv]

If you really want to emulate Win98, download QEMU and VMPlayer.

Use QEMU-IMG to create a vmware harddisk image, edit some settings for the vmware virtual machine and then load the settings file in VMPlayer.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: jazzboy
For NFS4 have you patched the game? Cos when I installed the original version it worked fine upder WinXP (incl. SP1 & 2). I remember trying one of the no-cd hacks before (before anyone flames me this was so that I could do multiplayer back in those days) and it didn't work, but that may also be the case for patches.

You don't think I patched the game? Telling you, I did EVERYTHING except this which should obviously should work, though I'm not sure HOW well because it's emulating it and not ACTUALLY running it.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
If you really want to emulate Win98, download QEMU and VMPlayer.

Use QEMU-IMG to create a vmware harddisk image, edit some settings for the vmware virtual machine and then load the settings file in VMPlayer.

What? I'm confused, why would you create a VMware hdd image and then load it back into vmware? wouldn't I run it from QEMU?

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Mickey Eye
I too would like to be able to run Mechwarrior 3. What other games don't run?

My friend got Mechwarrior 3 to run by using the compatibility mode.

 

[xtknight]

 

[sigs3gv]

Originally posted by: goku

Originally posted by: sigs3gv
If you really want to emulate Win98, download QEMU and VMPlayer.

Use QEMU-IMG to create a vmware harddisk image, edit some settings for the vmware virtual machine and then load the settings file in VMPlayer.

What? I'm confused, why would you create a VMware hdd image and then load it back into vmware? wouldn't I run it from QEMU?

You can't create virtual machiens using VMPlayer. You can only run them. However, you can create VMWare harddisk images (vmdk) using QEMU. I can't find the instructions right now, but you can find instructions on how to create a vmware configuration file. After the config creation, you can open VMPlayer and load the virtual machine. Then you can install Windows 98 and play your games.

 

[Evander]

Maybe you could try microsoft virtual pc
System Requirements
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Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Professional Edition ; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2

free 45^day trial is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...-4c64-9ca7-a30f225859f6&DisplayLang=en

 

[PingSpike]

Well they've got dos machine emulators out there now, I don't see why they couldn't make a full blown 98se one. Pretty much anything that only runs on 98 should still run fantastic on a modern machine emulated.