If you find an application that you like in Mac OS X and want to run in. Given that VirtualBox does not have any supported/provided Guest Additions for Windows 98 (or 95 for that matter), running under VirtualBox is incredibly slow and sluggish. an operating system, an emulator tries to present an environment that looks to. An interesting IE feature that was discontinued from Vista onwards. The zip file is about 135mb and the entire Windows 95 application is about 450mb after it has been unzipped. Launch the resulting ‘windows95.app’ in MacOS to immediately start Windows 95. I remember using this " active desktop" feature in 98, where you could have web content pinned to your desktop. Running Windows 95 on a modern Mac is incredibly simple, here’s how: Go to the Github project page here to download the release for Mac (labeled as windows95-1-macos.zip ) Unzip the windows95.zip file as usual. “Windows 98 supports new, cutting edge technologies” … I’m glad 98 made my computer “more entertaining.” Unix with X11 (Linux i386/x8664/ppc, NetBSD 2.x, FreeBSD 3.x) Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel) Windows NT/2000/XP BeOS R4/R5 (PowerPC) Some of SheepShaver's features. I booted the VM from a floppy disk image (the same I downloaded for my 95 installation attempt, from here), partitioned and formatted the virtual disk, and then ran "setup" from the CD: There’s a great post here that describes VM specific settings compatible for installing 98 – I went with 1GB RAM and a virtual 10GB disk and followed the other suggested settings. Virtual PC 1.
Virtual PC was then retooled into a virtualization tool for x86 systems. Moving on then, next up, installing Windows 98. Virtual PC 1.x (Mac) Originally an x86 emulator for Macintosh used to run Windows, Connectix, the company that made it, was purchased by Microsoft. More likely, the issue is related to VT-x virtualization (I can’t find the option to turn off VT-x support on my VirtualBox install), or other posts suggest this is most likely to do with host CPUs faster than 2.1GHz, and my Mac Pro has dual 2.8 Xeons. What on earth Windows 98 was doing back then initializing iOS devices is interesting, but beside the point. This error is described in this KB article, but I’m not sure updating the BIOS in my Quantum hard disk is really applicable in this case.
My attempt to install Windows 95 on Virtualbox on my Mac Pro didn’t turn out too well, as by the time the installation completed it refused to boot, with this error: "While initializing device IOS.