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simply right click and use 7zip to extract it to a directory.

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Download my Win 95 AC97 driver from but do *NOT* run it.

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Warning: lots of these drivers don’t work, so use mine. You can use the Windows Midi Synth, but I’ve seen some issues with games. The default VM setting is SoundBlaster 16 compatible.

Don’t hide file extensions for known file types.

In Explorer/Folder window -> View -> Folder Options -> View.

Probably a good idea to snapshot here – “Pre-IE6”.

Not a strict necessity, but it’s better than having IE5.

Just browse to the directory that it was decompressed in, and select the catalog file.

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Right click the inf file then install it will ask you for a disk.Install some Essential Applications and Tools Download and run Belkin PS2 Mouse Driver 1.0 from.Not strictly necessary, but I find that the mouse works better with this driver/software installed.Don’t worry, it’ll still work and we’ll come back to fix this later.

It will complain that Msimg32.dll is missing or too old.

Just rename this to opera.exe and it *will* run.

It will download it as a IFHDIH.PHP file that’s about 5MB – don’t worry.

I recommend that you download Opera 9.64 (Opera 10 and above doesn’t support Windows 9x) –

Accept everything except for setting up a mail account.

I connect through a local area network (LAN).

I want to set up my Internet connection manually … or local area network (LAN).

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections -> Setup.

This will allow you to access the Internet, albeit in a basic and broken way.

Take another VM snapshot and call it something like “Display Driver Installed”Ĭonfigure for basic Internet access (NAT).

Right click Desktop -> Properties -> Settings now you can select 1600×1200 32bit True Color no problem.

I’ve also had issues when the restart didn’t work – if so, restart the VM yourself – no need to go into safe mode, it should boot the second time OK.

I’ve had issues trying to change resolution at the same time.

Once you return, go back into the settings, and you’ll now see 1600×1200 32bit) (Strangely, I wasn’t able to pick anything higher than 1024×768, so select that, it’ll make you reboot.

Click the monitor model, and select Super VGA 1600×1200.

Here you should see Default Monitor on SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.

Once back into Windows after the reboot right click Desktop then Properties then Settings.

Once the SciTech window returns click the ‘Monitor not selected!’ link and choose SuperVGA 1600×1200, then reboot Windows.

SciTech reloads and you’ll see that VESA VBE 2.0 Oracle VM VirtualBox VBE Adapter is now selected.

OS will reboot again (remember how annoying this used to be?).

Click ‘Disabled’ next to SciTech Display Driver then select SciTech Nucleus Driver and apply.

On the HOME page, underneath Current Configuration, there is a section called Active Features.

Either register it or start the 21 day trial.

OS will restart, when it returns, SciTech Display Doctor will load.

You should see a CD drive with Sdd7 – double click that then run the scitech-display-doctor-win-7.0 installer – Express installation is fine.

Edit Settings of the VM -> Storage -> Add another device to the IDE controller (click the CD with the green plus) and mount the scitech-display-doctor-7.iso file you downloaded earlier.

I recommend that you take a snapshot of the VM and call it “BASE INSTALL”.

If everything went well, you should see Windows 98 desktop and hear some tragic music.

Enter your name and the CD key for Win98SE (DMWRC-T9XP4-GJ2P8-26G66-V9WBB) install will continue.

Run through the Windows installer with all the defaults.

/ie Disables create a boot disk (causes crashing on VBox and 98SE installer).

Format the virtual drive using format on the Windows CD.

Run fdisk and accept all the defaults to create an 8GB partition on your virtual drive.

Boot with option 2 – Start computer with CD-ROM support.

Boot with your 98SE ISO mounted (you’ll have to find this yourself).

Create new fixed size HDD – 2GB (VDI is fine).

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Unofficial Windows 98 SE update roll up pack ( ).

SCITech Display Doctor (this will be the video driver) –.

Windows 98SE ISO ( link here, and key – HQ23F-WXWFF-7V3HJ-KCVXT-4FRRM).

I’ve also added some new content and will continue to do so. Update March 2019: Due to popularity of this post, I’ve run through this again on OSX with Virtualbox 6. Once it’s all done, you too can see how pointless it all is.

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If you feel nostalgic for a bit of Windows 9x action, or you just want to play some old games that are between DOS and Windows XP, you can either build a retro PC gaming rig, or you can test the water with VirtualBox.