Installing Windows 95 In Dosbox
Copy over setup files and start Windows 95 installation At this point you should have your Windows 95 disc ready. I run windows 95B under dosbox 0.74. But I have got a few ultralonghaul flights coming up and I fancy playing some Windows 95 games I have got in a box too! So I have two questions: * Am I correct in assuming that I can just install Windows 95 through DOSBox and run it correctly? * Any ideas where I can find a copy of Windows 95/98? This Pin was discovered by lennart lindberg. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest.
Last night saw the 3rd Oxford Raspberry Jam meetup, and I was able to demonstrate my Pi running Windows 95. This was at the same time a joke and a serious demonstration of the Pi's capability. My apologies to the mods if this is not entirely on-topic for this particular forum, I ran Windows 95 in a Bochs virtual x86 machine over Debian rather than as a Pi operating system in its own right. It was just about usable, despite no effort having gone in to tuning the Bochs setup. I can think of no practical application for Windows 95 on a Pi, but it is not impossible that perhaps someone might have to run a piece of legacy DOS software somewhere and might find Bochs a useful means to do it. Anyway, a few tech details. Bochs is in the Debian repository, so a simple apt-get installed it.
I installed Windows 95 from the CD that came with a laptop in the '90s to a 100Mb Bochs hard disk image on my desktop PC and transferred it to the Pi on a USB disk. The Pi has no CD-ROM drive and I didn't fancy trying to extract the ISO file to do the task.
I used the X-windows Bochs display library, so the Debian desktop was always present in the background of the Windows 95 session. A much faster result could probably have been achieved had I compiled the SVGAlib package and run it without X, but this was more a demonstration for the laughs than practicality. As I said, 'You've seen an open OS on your Pi, now here's a wide-open one!' A tempting idea, but this is something of a curiosity and a joke, and will always remain so. Firstly, you need to own a Windows 95 licence to do it. This is not a redistributable piece of software. Secondly, it's in a 1990s PC emulated on a Pi.
That means it's never going to be quick in any sense of the word. And thirdly, Windows 95 is now not far off twenty years old. Would you buy your relatives a 486DX2-66 with 16Mb of memory now, in 2012? Of course not. So you probably wouldn't give them the OS it came with.
It's slow, buggy, insecure and incapable of running many things we now take for granted. Forget it, Windows 95 barely supports it. If you have a relative who would benefit from a Pi but is used to the Windows interface then I would suggest finding a Windows-like skin for the Linux desktop, the result will be far more useful. The PI isn't just an educational tool for kids it's also a cheap 1337 machine for adults, hackers and coders alike. Many people have turned their PI into cheap media centres which couldn't be any more than educational, but who cares the PI is what you make it (the PI can, therefore I will).
However I have always been fascinated by emulators and it's especially interesting seeing Microsoft Windows running on an ARM based machine when it's executing Intel code. Running Windows on the PI can have it's uses too i.e. Old software, or software that isn’t available on the Linux ARM platform. Here's my Windows 3.11 emulation on Raspbian.
Minesweeper is playable. There's also Solitaire, but no Spider Solitaire as that came with later versions of Windows. I also got Clickteam's original Klik 'n' Play from 1994 running on the Raspberry Pi, albeit slowly: Performance is something along the lines of a 386. In modern terms, extremely slow. I'm not sure if QEMU is any faster than DOSBox. I've stuck to 640x480x16 colours, although higher resolutions are available with drivers. I'm not sure if they'll be much slower though.
Bloodline wrote: Did you compile E-UAE yourself? I've been thinking about getting FS-UAE working, but it needs OpenGL and fails to compile with OpenGL ES Yes, E-UAE is fairly easy to build from source. There are several other versions of UAE which would work on the Raspberry Pi. Most likely FS-UAE and PUAE will be too slow, and variants of UAE4ALL will provide the best performance (but less compatibility).
E-UAE runs AmigaOS 3.1 reasonably well. There'a also the AROS project which provides an ARM-native rewrite of AmigaOS on the Raspberry Pi, currently on top of Linux, but eventually as a stand-alone OS. Display posts from previous: Sort.
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. (And sound = atmosphere of the game, the experience) I couldn't enjoy the game without sound. So i thought about installing windows through iDos.
I googled and found out that i can install windows 3, windows 95, windows 98 or windows me. I don't know why, but i downloaded an.img file of windows 98. It took me a good 5 hours to get it to work. After doing that i tried to connect a 'fake disk' to windows 98. But I failed. So i used an app called WinImage to open up the files in.img file.
Then i added the fallout setup files. After that I used iDos to boot windows. Installed fallout on the img using iDos. Then when i tried booting the game i got a message that the game can only run in windows 95.
I downloaded windows 95 and deleted 98. I was faster this time, got it to work in under 10 minutes! Nice, isn't it? I installed fallout again. It told me to download directx 3.0 or higher. So i downloaded directx 6.1 and installed.
The install also asked me if i wanted to install a driver. I said 'yes'. But then the whole windows crashed.
I reinstalled everything and said 'no' this time. Everything is going well. I tried to boot the game now. It came up with a warning: This app needs to be run with 256 color or higher.
Or something like that. Anyway i then looked up at the control panel, to display. I only had 16 color or monochrome.
And the display was only 640x480. I googled a lot to find a working win95a graphic driver. Free download wallpaper gerak untuk pc. I installed it. It got installed well. Then i chose new graphics card adaptor.
The new driver of course! (Still going well) Checked the control panel, display. The 256 color, truecolor(32) and 16 bit color options were unlocked. I chose 256 of course. After chosing 256 color the display option popped. Now I could slide from 480 to 1024. Great, right?
Installing Windows 95 In Dosbox
Though I kept it at 480 and just chose 256 color. I clicked apply. But windows warned me that i need to restart in order to apply changes. Which closes the iDos application. I reopened the iDos and booted windows 95 again. I didn't notice anything different. I checked display settings again.
Install Windows 95 In Dosbox
And it was still 16 color with 256 color and such unlucked. But whenever I choose them it tells me to restart and closes the app. I googled more and found that dosbox doesn't support 256 color. But I also found that some people got it to work. Just the files were old and deleted.
So I couldn't download. But I am so close. I can't stop yet. If anyone can help me get past this problem, thanks. Problem: Can't set 256 color without restarting.
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And when i restart it is back to 16 color. Is there a way to boot it always 256 color maybe?