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[roioros]

Yes, for DOS I use DOSBox, my question was more related to old Windows games (Windows 9x)

QEMU works quite well, I have it with Windows 95, I also have a VirtualBox with Windows XP (the tests I did went very well), but you say that VMware is better so I will try it.

Will VirtualBox/VMware work well if I install Windows 95/98 on them?

To install Windows 95 in DOSBox, which of all the existing versions of the emulator is the best?

[hfric]

Yes, for DOS I use DOSBox, my question was more related to old Windows games (Windows 9x)

QEMU works quite well, I have it with Windows 95, I also have a VirtualBox with Windows XP (the tests I did went very well), but you say that VMware is better so I will try it.

Visual Aid WinXp gaming on WMware : "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XOuqBGhuzE" ...or this "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzY5oDnuLoM" (yes its was played under WMware) or how about GTAV under WMware "www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFcCaX1rI8" ... even that Pirate Hunter was played under WMware "www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti04jNssWLE"

Will VirtualBox/VMware work well if I install Windows 95/98 on them?

Win98 game on Wmware : "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EjlcakgCUo"
Yes

To install Windows 95 in DOSBox, which of all the existing versions of the emulator is the best?

DOSBox ECE for speed ... in other words if your lazy asf just get a game from collectionchamber.blogspot.com , a random windows game like this one "https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/beyond-time.html" and retrofit it to be your Win95 Emulator ... take this and retrofit it to be your Win3.11 emu for games "https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/weird-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction.html" ... and then just replace the Dosbox-X with Dosbox ECE

[hfric]

or be even lazier asf and just get EXOWin3x ...

[roioros]

Thank you!

Fantastic videos, I didn't know WMware was working so well, I'm going to try it.

DOSBox ECE is the DOSBox that I use, I didn't know that Windows 95 could be installed on it, I would like to do it from scratch, do you have a guide or steps to follow to be able to do it?

[hfric]

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtUdX_R6yE" step by step ... how to install Win98 (the same you do on Win95) with a show off at the end how it runs "Myth II" in Dosbox ... like native fast lulz... but get a game from Biff , it will save you 7h to 15h you will waste on installing it since installing a OS is one thing ... but then you have to install Sound Drivers\DX\Graphic Drivers\Video Drivers and so on

But in my Win95\Win98 version i do not use the imgmount command , but real HDD Folder and DT for mounting CD\Floppy images ...
With :

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mount C "C:\DOS\" -freesize 1024
mount D X:\ -t cdrom -USECD 1 -ioctl

But They use it to have a one clean Virtual HDD image ... for sanity sake

[roioros]

Thank you very much for your help!, I was able to install Windows 95 on the DOSBox ECE, it is not very stable but overall it seems to work well.