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Need Help making a Win98 boot disk

JerikTelorianJerikTelorian Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
So, today I finally started toying with Windows Virtual PC, and am enjoying it. XP Mode installed fine and works fairly well. While playing with it, I decided I could go grab my old copy of Windows 98 to install and play some old games. Unfortunately, I appear to need a Windows 98 Boot Disk to install Win98, and I don't have one.

I've tried installers for the Win98 Boot Disk that I've found on the internet to no avail. The Virtual Machine complains and won't boot off it. Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know how to make a bootable floppy? Is there an alternative way of installing Win98 that won't require me to fdisk my Virtual HD?

Many thanks!

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  • exoplasmexoplasm Gainfully Employed Near Blizzard HQRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    You could try using a floppy disk image in the virtual machine, although it should boot the CD anyway. I'm pretty sure the boot disk was only needed if your BIOS didn't support booting off of a CD. In fact I have installed Win98 on a virtual machine in recent years with only a CD.

    http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html

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  • mrbernzmrbernz Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    How many games that run on 98 wont run on XP?

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  • DHS OdiumDHS Odium Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I've yet to find a single game that I can't get to work either in compatibility mode (on XP or Vista) or dosbox, and I had a shit ton of old games. There's zero use on this planet anymore for Windows 98.

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  • exoplasmexoplasm Gainfully Employed Near Blizzard HQRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Don't forget that you can't even run 3D games in a virtual machine, unless they don't use Direct3D or OpenGL (software rendering only).

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  • RBachRBach Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    exoplasm wrote: »
    Don't forget that you can't even run 3D games in a virtual machine, unless they don't use Direct3D or OpenGL (software rendering only).

    VMware, Parallels, and Virtualbox all have either Direct3D or OpenGL 3D acceleration (although I don't think any of them has both). Virtual PC doesn't, but Virtual PC is garbage, anyway. :)

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  • ZellZell Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    How many games that run on 98 wont run on XP?
    Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
    Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

    I've found some other games that won't run properly in XP regardless of what you do, but most people won't run into them, ever.

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  • exoplasmexoplasm Gainfully Employed Near Blizzard HQRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    RBach wrote: »
    exoplasm wrote: »
    Don't forget that you can't even run 3D games in a virtual machine, unless they don't use Direct3D or OpenGL (software rendering only).

    VMware, Parallels, and Virtualbox all have either Direct3D or OpenGL 3D acceleration (although I don't think any of them has both). Virtual PC doesn't, but Virtual PC is garbage, anyway. :)

    This only works with Windows XP and possibly Vista. No hope for Win98 3D acceleration in a VM.

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  • logic7logic7 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Hardwar doesn't work in XP either. I rather like that game.

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