Emulating Windows 98 (or 9x in general) on VMWare is a nightmare!

 

Hello there! I'm going to show you why Emulating Windows 98 or 9x in general is a nightmare. Alright alright, VMWare is a hypervisor, not a emulator unlike PCem or 86BOX, but I like it as "emulator". As you know, 9x is pretty hard to emulate on VMWare! You can't really just go install it, when you go into the graphical stage of Setup (when it actually boots into the system, not just some modified Windows 3.11), it's going to give you an Windows Protection Error. How do I fix it then? You have to get software called "Patcher9x" to fix it, which applies to Windows 95 to Windows ME. ADDTIONALLY, Windows 95's VMWare Tools don't work on versions lower than OSR 2.0. Also, for some reason in Windows 95 the character limit for CD is just shortened of one letter, making VMWare Tools to VMWare Tool, making the display driver not able to install. You'll have to install a 3rd part installer called "SciTech Display Doctor". I recommend the Version 7 Beta. I won't be talking about ME much, since I've never used it before. Windows 98... has a lotta glitches. For some reason, in my Windows 98 EN VM, the control panel's icons are... broken? It's just all black! That's all I gotta say, since it's 11:58 PM.

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