Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by anthk on Thursday December 31, 2020 @10:58AM
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Ahem, it emulates then fine, is not VirtualBox, it's Bochs and Qemu with no virtualisation by setting the TCG interpreter, something good enough with a Cirrus card.
Bochs is unlike VMs, with Bochs for sure you will set up W95 and W98 without BSODing, fore sure. Bochs emulates even an i7, at glacial speeds, but it's a beast for debugging.
It emulates even the virtualisation instructions themselves, FFS, in order to debug the inners of a guest OS while "virtualising".
And it did VooDoo and VooDoo2 before PCEM several years before even it existed.
The issue is those early games for W95 don't even launch properly on real machines under Windows 98!
Bochs is unlike VMs, with Bochs for sure you will set up W95 and W98 without BSODing, fore sure. Bochs emulates even an i7, at glacial speeds, but it's a beast for debugging. It emulates even the virtualisation instructions themselves, FFS, in order to debug the inners of a guest OS while "virtualising". And it did VooDoo and VooDoo2 before PCEM several years before even it existed.
The issue is those early games for W95 don't even launch properly on real machines under Windows 98!