Old tooic, new hardware. Dosbox - Windows 9x
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Hi folks, been playing around with the weekly builds on the Pi4 and so far so good. I was wondering if anyone had played with getting Win 9x running in Dosbox for some if the old windows games. Full throttle anyone?
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https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19274/guide-stable-windows-95-on-retropie/24?_=1581355693966
I got it to install but couldn't get much to run.
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I got Windows 3.1 running. You have to install separate graphics and soundblaster drivers for it to work properly. It’s a bit hard to find the right copy that is just the install disks (rather than a pre-installed folder), but it’s doable. I was able to install and run 3.1 games like Sim City 2000, though performance wasn’t great once I switched to 256 colors. Could be some tweaking needed, or perhaps running a game on top of windows is too much dosbox on arm. Not sure.
I would imagine 95 running slow.
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@StigNasty Do you still have that image file? Have you tried to copy it over to a pi 4 and see if performance is better?
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