> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > j...@cimmeri.com > Sent: 29 January 2016 16:04 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives? > > > > On 1/28/2016 8:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > > > 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 MAME, > 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.