How To Install Windows 98 On Dosbox Turbo

So I installed today new windows 95 CZ. It was pain, but I will write here my experiences.

First snapshot was done with the Limbo PC emulator like in video in previous post. It was pain because this app crashes often. Unlike this video I booted from floppy using windows 95 boot disk. CD-ROM was disabled. At beginning I copied installation files to the root of win95.img file which I mounted as Drive c:.

DosBox Turbo 2.1.x Changes. Experimental Windows 9x Support (DosBox Turbo 2.1.7+). Windows 98 is now stable using the following settings. QuickMenu to quickly access settings and make changes while DosBox Turbo is running.

I used WinImage app. Then I booted from floppy win95 boot disk. I started on floppy drive A:, I switched to C:. Then to directory with installation files.

“c:” “cd setup” “setup” During installation Limbo PC emulator crashed so often that I though that it will never finish. But finally I was able boot. I quit limbo and mounted this image in Magic Dosbox.

But I was not able run normal boot. Safe mode worked and I installed S3 + sound blaster drivers from previous post. Monitor was set to super vga 1024×768.

Unfortunately it won’t boot normally. In safe mode I deleted lpt and com port drivers in device manager.

In monitor settings I unckecked “automatic monitor detection” (or something like that). After that windows95 started normally. Okay so, I’m currently having fun with Civ2 on my Nexus 10 tablet. Magic Dosbox is working well so I just want to share my experience with you guys.

I probably have installed Windows 95 on my tablet more than 50 times in past one month. I tried all different sorts of settings to test out what Win95 on M-Dosbox can do. In fact, my main goal was to run Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I managed to install the game but it was extremely slow. HOMM3’s benchmarking program gives me 70MHz on my Nexus 10 and it requires 133MHz. Maybe newer phones can achieve the number but I have no idea since mine is old iPhone 4.

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So I just gave up that game and moved on to my all time favorite Civilization 2. The game itself is working alright but the problem is that Virtual Clone CD just doesn’t read audio tracks from disk image. I have tried many other virtual drives including Daemon tools, which was a real pain in the ass to install btw, and all of them failed to run or read audio tracks. The most stable one was Virtual Clone CD and I am using it now. For BGM, I just ripped the CD and playing MP3s from background app. It works for me. Sometimes it gives me a wrong music at a wrong situation though.

For the CPU speed wise, my i5 2500K desktop gives me around 300MHz and i5 laptop gives me around 260MHz and they run HOMM3 really fine. I just checked smartphone benchmarking rates which shows Nexus 10 scored only 8,000 points while newest Galaxy 6S scored 160,000 points. A huge gap isn’t it? 8,000 points can make 70MHz so 160,000 could make I don’t know but much higher I guess.

Maybe it’s time to let my iPhone 4 go and get a new Android phone. That is all for now. ‘IF’ I get a new phone I will share more experience with you guys.

• Additional button mappings for [ ] keys as requested • Better detection of MIDI ROM files on SDCard • misc bug fixes DosBox Turbo 2.1.0 • MIDI Sound Support (see main ) • Working IPX Networking • Windows 9x support (see below) • Increased available memory from 64MB to 512MB Max (you will need at least 768MB RAM on your device to use the full 512MB) • Samsung SPen Right Click Support • Turbo Cycles now defaults to OFF: If you want the speed boost, please re-enable it. • Turbo VGA now defaults to OFF: Better compatibility with it off. • DosBox Turbo will now try to detect the proper mount path for your external SD card and fill in the autoexec by default. • Add INS key to quick keys and mapping • Improved Virtual Keyboard Access (access virtual keyboard from Quick Menu & now toggles with button click). • Numerous other bug fixes and minor features. • High Quality Screen Scaling - Version 2.0.x can now use High Quality Screen Scaling without any performance degradation if you are using the optional GPU rendering mode. • NEON Optimizations - A new custom build system & compiler (with Profile Guided Optimizations & Graphite) were used to automatically generate ARMv5, ARMv7, ARMv7+NEON and MIPS builds.