Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw...
by megaman22 on Sunday April 15, 2018 @06:52PM
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The place where DOSBox isn't sufficient is for games in that Win 95/98/2000 era. Most of those don't run very well, if at all on modern Windows, unless somebody still has the source and bothers to rerelease a modern "HD edition" or somesuch. I still have to keep a Win 98 VM so I can play Sierra's Civil War Generals 2 from time to time.
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Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw...
by orionblastar on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:03AM
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I heard that DOSBox can run Windows 3.1 to run 16 but Windows games. I also heard someone hacked Win95 and Win98 to run under DOSbox. You could just use QEMU emulate a Pentium box and install 95 or 98 under that as an alternative.
Re:ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 softw...
by efreak on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:15AM
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Dosbox runs windows 3.1 perfectly, with resolutions up to at least 1280x1024 (what I use for tetris) _or_ true color mode (unfortunately not both). You can supposedly install 95/98 in it, but I've had trouble actually using them in it.