29 Jan
2016
29 Jan
'16
1:23 p.m.
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Subject: Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?
On 1/28/2016 8:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
MAME,
On faster, more modern systems, I use VirtualBox. Just not worth the
extra trouble finding drivers--but I suspect 98SE will run on P4
systems as well.
The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned
in re VirtualBox is that what if you
have a legacy Win 98SE system with
hardware in it, like a GPIB card or
sound card? Or if you have software
that talks to hardware via serial or
parallel ports eg. eprom burners, Zector ZVG vector graphic driver for etc.
VMWare Player, which is free will re-map modern PCI-Express parallel and
serial ports which have odd IRQ's back to the ones legacy drivers expect. I
keep a copy of XP in a VMware Player VM for my old Parallel Port JTAG
programmer for some old Spartan 3 boards I have.
The other hassle is having to
essentially rebuild an Win98 (or any
other) machine from scratch in order to try to replicate an existing
setup. I
haven't seen any way to "capture" an
existing machine and all its disk
partitions -- especially when there's multiple partitions of different
types
-- and import it into the virtual
world. That'd be great.
- J.