Install Windows 95 Using Dosbox

Contents • • • • • Wine [ ] Main article: Wine is for Linux, various BSDs, and OS X and allows Windows applications to run on those systems. Support for Windows 3.x and 9x programs is quite strong, though since it focuses more on modern games, they're the lowest priority. DOSBox [ ] Main article: Windows 3.x, 95, and 98 can be installed in DOSBox. Windows ME can also be installed, but in comparison to the other versions of Windows listed here, it is unstable and runs very poorly in DOSBox. DOSBox was not designed to run Windows. Windows 3.x runs very smoothly, but 95 and 98 require more legwork (for instance, Windows 3.x will run games from a mounted CD drive just fine, while 9x require Daemon Tools to be installed inside the OS) and are much more clunky. They also run slower than unaccelerated QEMU.

Guide: installing Windows 95 on DOSBox. This guide is for those who want to get Windows 95 working on DOSBox but don't want to go through the trouble of looking up all the scattered pieces of information that need to be known.

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Running DOS games from inside Windows caused problems with a real copy. It is much worse inside DOSBox so do not run DOS games from Windows on DOSBox. There is no 3D acceleration available. Some games will not detect Windows properly and refuse to install. All the problems and bugs Windows had by itself will only be made worse using it in an emulator and without a real copy of DOS. Step by step guide to installing Windows on DOSBox.

• • There has been interest in creating a spin off version of DOSBox that incorporates compatibility with Windows 95/98/ME called, but as of now it has not passed the theoretical stage. PCem [ ] Main article: PCem is an emulator for old x86 PCs that can emulate actual old hardware fairly accurately. Configuration is not the easiest, but once it's running, it works quite well. Needs somewhat powerful hardware to run.

Currently, it only emulates up to a Pentium processor on the latest stable release, but if you have the muscle for it, you can also emulate an S3 ViRGE, or even a 3dfx Voodoo. Bochs/Qemu [ ] Both of these emulators are good for general purpose x86 emulation. 3D acceleration isn't that great right now so it's better to use another option until 3D acceleration improves. References [ ].

Thanks for any help. I had that game called 'Fallout'. An awesome game from 1997. It also had a patch 1.1 and a dos version. I could play the game on my computer after working with the config and stuff. But I wanted to show how cool this game actually is to my 'non geek' friends.

I thought about using iDos application (which uses DosBox) to run the dos version of the game. The problem I got was the game freezing a lot, the app crashing. Not loading at all. I got the game to work after 2 days of research. But the graphics were really glitchy and the sound was gone.