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I was looking for a Windows 98 boot disk so i could setup a Windows 98 virtual machine on VmWare Esxi, i was surprised to find Digiex was the first result. End result is i got my VM working perfectly, nice post Rick. Microsoft’s Windows 95 was a huge leap from Windows 3.1. It was the first release of Windows with the Start menu, taskbar, and typical Windows desktop interface we still use today. Windows 95 won’t work on modern PC hardware, but you can still install it in a virtual machine and relive those glory days. Windows Host Shut down Windows 98 and power off the virtual machine. From the VMware Workstation window, on the Settings menu, choose Configuration Editor and click Add. Follow the instructions in the Add Hardware Wizard to add a virtual Ethernet adapter. To install Windows 98 into a virtual machine: Insert the Windows 98 CD in the CD-ROM drive on your VMware GSX Server host. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows 98. Choose to boot from CD-ROM, then select the Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM option. The setup program runs FDISK and reboots.
I am having some problems with my recently purchased version of VMware Workstation 7.1.1. I am running a Windows 98 Virtual Machine that was original installed in VMware Workstation 4.0. I upgraded the *.vmx file by going to VM -> Upgrade or Change Version and choosing the Hardware Compatibility to be 'Windows 6.5-7.x.' I then chose 'power on this virtual machine.'
After that, it started up. However, it says that it is searching for PCI-to-PCI Bridge. After hitting cancel 32 times, it asks for PCI System Peripheral, then PCI Universal Serial Bus, then PCI Ethernet Controller, then PCI Multimedia Audio Device, then PCI Universal Serial Bus again. After hitting cancel for all of these, the Windows 98 Virtual Machine starts and runs smoothly. I am able to work and do everything that I need to do within the Virtual Machine.
The major problem comes when I shut down the virtual machine. By going to Start -> Shutdown, I close the Windows 98 Virtual Machine. At this point, if I try to power the Virtual Machine back on it comes up with an error message that says 'snapshots are not available for this virtual machine.' If I look inside the contents of my *.vmx file, it is wiped completely empty and all the settings are lost. Luckily I have a backup of my *.vmx file. But going through all of this is a huge hassle every time I need to use VMware.
Please help,
Faraday
There a many reasons to be grateful for the progress been made since Microsoft Windows 98, but sometimes we just want to peek back in a history of nostalgia. Recently I have found back a number of CD’s that I got once as a bonus with a PC I bought in 1995. One of this CD’s was 500 Nations from the series Microsoft Home. It is a multi-media CD about the native North American Indians, hosted by Kevin Costner.
Unfortunately this CD doesn’t play in a Windows 8 system and therefor I decided to install Windows 98 SE in a VMWare Player. Well that wasn’t so hard. Since I had not any copy of a Windows 98 CD anymore I found one with this link. It is still not legal to copy ISO’s from licensed programs, but for this single purpose I took my chances.
Installing the ISO is like installing an old PC
After downloading the ISO you just create a new virtual machine in your VMWare Player called Windows 98 SE. You create 2 CD players. One for the (virtual) Windows 98 ISO and one for playing the 500 nations CD (or any other physical CD’s). It is helpful to have the Windows 98 (virtual) CD available after you have installed the operating system, for the installation of additional drivers you don’t have to swap constantly the CD image in your CD player. The Windows 98 period was a period of Megabytes rather than Gigabytes so you don’t have to reserve too much space for this.
Winzip and Flash
Please be aware that appropriate additional software like Flash Player and Winzip have to be found on the internet. The best way is to find the proper releases with the browser of the host (your PC) and drag and drop the downloaded files to your VMWare Windows 98 and then install them.
Special attention for the default soundcard
To have sound within Windows 98 it is important that you keep the setting to “Use default host sound card”, for this will emulate a Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCI https://keenchoice277.weebly.com/outlook-import-wizard-download.html. Adobe rgb vs srgb monitor. soundcard. Don’t set the sound to your own card, for it is likely that there are no drivers available for it.
It was a bit of a puzzle to have the right drivers for Windows 98 and the VMWare player, but here you have a link to the ZIP file with the drivers that I used. Any other Soundblaster drivers gave me a lot of blue screens in Windows 98.
Windows 98 Virtual Machine For Vmware 7Installation of Windows 98
Now you can start your virtual machine and the process is the same as installing Windows 98 on a PC. And very surprising, it took almost as long as it did in the old days (about 40 minutes). During the installation you can also download the VMWare Tools for Windows 98.
It is important that you do this, for otherwise you will end up with a standard graphics card, with limited resolution. After the download of the VMWare tools it will tell you that you have to click for installation after you have finished the installation of Windows 98. So have a little patience here.
You can always install the VMWare tools from the VMWare Player menu. The VMWare Tools make it also possible to drag and drop files from your host system (PC) to your VMWare Player. That is easy for many websites are not very friendly for old browsers.
DNS setting for internet connection
After the installation of Windows 98 is done, you have to activate the software. You can simply use the CD key here. If you have followed the link to download the Windows 98 ISO, it will come with a text file containing this key. It worked for me.
If you have problems with the network regarding internet access, I have modified the DNS IP address to 8.8.8.8, which is Google. I have not plans to extend this experiment beyond entertainment level anyway, so the Google DNS is working just fine. To change the network settings you have to right mouse click on the “Network Neighborhood” and choose properties.
Click on Properties
Click on DNS Configuration
Add a DNS (8.8.8.8). You can only do this when you include a host and domain. I just entered some name with no further connection to any other infrastructure.
Install Firefox a second browserWindows 98 Sound Vmware
By default Windows 98 SE is installed with Internet Explorer 4.0. That was a modern browser then, but doesn’t work well with modern websites and comes with a lot of JavaScript error popups. So it is not bad idea to install the latest Firefox that was available for Windows 98. You will find the executable for Firefox version 2 here: link. Assembly microsoft vc80 crt.
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Don’t expect that websites work as smoothly as they do in new versions of your favorite browsers. Old browsers have a slow JavaScript engine and there are a number of runtime errors that simply refer to code that was not supported at the time. And HTML 5 was not even born then, neither was jQuery.
Now let’s have some nostalgia
After you have installed the operating system and the soundcard, you should be able to have your “old” CD’s play again. This is how the amazing 500 nations from Microsoft looked in 1995.
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