Program like Virtual PC, but that work on Win 98?

[Chaos Master]

Hello people.

I need to run some old Windows programs. They will no run in Windows 98. Until
recently, I used Win 3.1 running inside Bochs, but I found Bochs is too slow.
I was looking at Virtual PC but it's only for Win 2000 and XP Pro.

I can't upgrade for the following reasons: 1. old hardware 2. my local shop
only has XP Home.

Question: is there any free program, like Virtual PC or VMWare, that will run
on Win 98?

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[Donnie Russell]

Since Bochs is the best free solution that I know of, it looks to me
like you have three options here:

1) You could tinker with the Bochs configuration file for your virtual
machine; I think it may be possible to decrease the video refresh rate
to make the processor go proportionately faster.

2) You could configure the source code of Bochs and recompile it with
only the components that you need (such as a 386 processor, no sound
or network). In theory this could speed up the emulation. Also,
running Bochs under Linux will show better performance, I am told.

3) Off-topic: There are old versions of Virtual PC, before the
acquisition, that run under Windows 98 SE. But these versions are
known to have problems on some systems. I don't know if the new owner
provides or supports them.

 

[Chaos Master]

rm -rf /home/Donnie Russell:

1) You could tinker with the Bochs configuration file for your virtual
machine; I think it may be possible to decrease the video refresh rate
to make the processor go proportionately faster.

I will try this..

2) You could configure the source code of Bochs and recompile it with
only the components that you need (such as a 386 processor, no sound
or network). In theory this could speed up the emulation. Also,
running Bochs under Linux will show better performance, I am told.

I will check this, since I will not need sound, and probably no networking.

3) Off-topic: There are old versions of Virtual PC, before the
acquisition, that run under Windows 98 SE. But these versions are
known to have problems on some systems. I don't know if the new owner
provides or supports them.

Maybe, this can be better than nothing..

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