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is it normal to question the funny lore on this channel

a bit sly slipping in that Neon Genesis Evangelion reference in the intro, lol

How do I get the games like Solitaire and Minesweeper? They are seemingly not included in my installation.

Support for FAT32, MMX, P6 and USB support was already introduced in OSR2 and OSR2.1. FAT32 support does not mean that large disks would not be supported without it, it is just more complicated (need to have more partitions). The main thing about OSR2.5 was that it saved the work of updating clients (if you used them) and also IE4. All these things could have been added to older versions, but it was extra work.

didn't expect to end up on a 86box video lol

You really do a great job of taking subject matter that could be very, very dry, and making it entertaining instead. Kudos!

Is Windows 95 based on DOS? Yes and No. It is DOS in the sense that it implements all the same interfaces and behaviors, can host the same 16-bit drivers, and so-on. That was necessary for backward compatibility, but in 95+ the role of that "DOS" is just that and a bootloader. No one would say that Windows 2000 is NTLDR-based (I'd hope.) It's a completely different implementation, though, with a ton of hacks to establish that compatibility. Want proof? Open msdos.sys in a text editor on DOS 6.22 and then do the same on Windows 95. You'll see they're very different . You'll also see one of the huge number of kludges in 95 needed to fool DOS programs into thinking they're still running on the DOS they expect.

IIRC, the CD detection issue for Win95 won't happen if your CD drive is your primary controller slave. When 95 was being made, most machines still only had a single IDE controller.

I remember in the late 1980s using a PC XT with a 8088 CPU to run a dBase 3 innovatory program that I had written for work. Man was it slow compared to running it on a "speedy" 286 🙂

Thanx for the video. I have forgotten all the setup quirks of networking on Win 95. My fist experience of Win 95 was buying a box of floppies with it on and installing it disk by disk. I didn't have a CD ROM in those days. I installed it on a PC with a Cyrix 486 DLC CPU that worked fine on DOS but a slow pig on Win 95. I still had a PC with Win 95 in a duel boot partition for video editing until about 2012. The main OS I used up to then was Win 2000.

You might like the RetroZilla browser as a useful IE or Firefox alternative as it supports TLS 1.2 to browse HTTPS sites

To windows 95 you could install realplayer 6 and 7 as i remember and realplayer 8 jukeboxbeta ( you can rip in minidiskformat)

if you killed your amd xp cpu and thought you cant use it when you added your clloer and used to much force -The cpu might be salveble -the thing that breaks are the cache on top of the cpu so use a another cpu" disable cache" and then your Duron 1200 are like a pentium1 but at 1200mgz

86Box, thanks for the network setup stuff, i couldnt get internet to work on NT 4 and 95, thanks mate. (17:08 - 19:24) if you wanna know

i think i used a win98se on a motherboard with a socket 1? pentium 2 max speed. 1gig ram. can anyone tell me if gaming in 98se on x86box still works? i did hl and rayman but only crashed. but was using a voodoo3 maxed...

Does anyone remember RealPlayer? How could anyone who grew up in dial-up internet days _not_ remember? RealPlayer was everywhere, and the RAM video format, too. It was actually quite good at buffering web-based video in an era when doing so was mostly infeasible.

Wow! That’s cool! I grew up with windows 95

Great video

Timestamps for WINDOWS 95 OSR 2.5 - INSTALLATION AND OVERVIEW: 0:00 Intro 1:16 Overview of Windows 95 3:18 Machine Setup 6:14 BIOS Setup 7:16 Hard Drive Setup 8:26 Windows Setup (Part 1) 11:23 Windows Setup (Part 2) 13:13 Skip to Desktop 13:18 Display Settings 14:20 Sound Blaster AWE32 PnP Drivers 15:05 Microsoft Plus for Windows 95 17:08 Getting Online 19:25 Upgrading IE 3.0 to IE 4.0 to IE 5.50 21:39 Bonus Software (Mozilla Firefox, Office 2000, mIRC, etc.) 23:44 Outro

i love how this premieres the same day as my birthday

Could you also make a video of installing Windows ME on 86Box?

First of all, great video! I was able to install Win 98 using your tutorial on that. For some reason, my version of 86box gets stuck after saving the settings in the bios. I have the proper boot disk mounted, as well as the RTM iso file for Win 95. But it just sits there (over an hour now) with the cursor blinking. Not sure what step I missed.

Is it safe to connect windows 98 to a domain in 86box?

lol the voice of this guy's wants me to punch him in the face, twice...

Protected Mode was a good idea.

How did you get the music to work?

86Box and PCem both require very high single-thread performance to emulate Pentium II 450 MHz. Are these emulators really ment to be low-level, or maybe it can be possible to make high-level emulation to use multi-threaded performance?

I completely forgot what the commands are. Thanks laddie.

What about the tandy OEM version? This is the creative OEM version (even if my favorite sound from the creative disc is ohoh.wav).

Thanks for the tutorial @86Box, now I can install Visual Basic 6 on there.

1:34 Oh 😌 Oh 😱

12:20 I cannot get past this point. Resolution set to 1024x768, 60Hz, true color. The screen is duplicated 4 times with distorted colors that sometimes change out of nowhere, there is no visible cursor (but clicking works) and it is pretty much unusable. Also happens if I don't change any setting, leaving it in standard VGA mode. Running under Linux, so maybe that causes the issue.

#DONKEYKONGFORMSDOSISCREEPY

Also doesn't the same apply to virtually all 32-bit only software that millions of companies still rely on for some reason?

Duh, i chose EGA for Windows 3.0, and the other Windows 3.x's. I am running it on an emulator Limbo x86 PC Emulator 6.0.0-QEmu 2.9.1, it's the 386 Enhanced Mode.

If I may ask, can this also work on actual PC hardware as well such as a desktop running Windows 98?

86Box is slow as fuck though. My modern hardware is too new for classic computing and the legacy hardware I can emulate on it is too old for any of the software I want to run.

Great tutorial but I recommend against setting up memset, as it'll ask you to put one of the 5.25" disks into the 3.5" A: drive which, basically softlocks you out of finishing your installation.

I wish I could emulate just a decent GPU attached to a virtual machine. I shouldn't have to choose between full speed and compatibility in 2024.

My Teac CD thing failed to install, and i was booted to an ms dos terminal saying there was an error, ive been trying for an hour but it does not boot. VirtualBox does not accept the boot floppy, and im stuck.

Could you make a video about the Modem emulation?

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86box linux flatpak version has a issue that you can't hard reset. So for me installing the graphics drivers is not possible

Use FE or SE?

it says: A Sound Blaster Pro audio card was not found at the specified settings. Please check your hardware configuration to determine the correct settings., what should i do 86Box??

"Aborting Instalation no drives found" after trying install Win 95.

Hyped for version 4.2!!