I installed Windows 98 on Virtualbox to play old games but it has problems with graphics driver.
Is these an iso or drivers made for VM that make play old games on Windows 98 running smoothly?
There is another: PCem. It can apparently emulate a Voodoo graphics accelerator and up to ‘maybe’ a Pentium 2 CPU speed.
The problem I find with it though is that you need a ridiculously overbuilt machine to run it at those speeds and it only supports ‘plain’ graphics or Voodoo Glide. No DirectX. So very limited unless you only care about Glide games and nothing more modern.
There’s a ton of videos out there of it running smoothly and playing 3D games which is reassuring
Yes I stumbled upon PCEM with voodoo. It’s great and works just fine.
It’s has 2 issues though:
- Sound is stuttering sometimes.
- Some dos games runs slow. I don’t know if it’s the cpu or gpu. The game I tested was TFX. But I managed to run it on dosbox with no isssues.
Do you know if I find ROMs for faster CPU? The fastest I have is Pentium 2 450mhz
Playing anything via virtualbox is… rough. If it’s a DOS game, try dosbox or something similar. If you really need DX… whatever win98 used… then setting up a very specific Wine instance is the way to go.
I want to download all games I played in the late 80s and early 90s.
Dosbox is great with dos games. But I prefer win98 for the nostalgia.
If you’re serious about the nostalgia, then your best bet is to find a 32-bit processor and build a dedicated win98 system. ISOs are available everywhere, most with updates and a disabled registration system. You might even try a 2k or XP system. Win2K was my gaming system of choice for many years, thanks to its backward-compatibility.
I prefer to run it on a virtual machine or emulator as I don’t have a space for dedicated machine.
Hmm… well, VMWare used to make a virtual desktop app that was far superior in the way it handled DirectX apps, but I don’t know if they still have/support that.
