Windows 98 Virtualbox setup (Part 1)

Part one of three videos which illustrates setting up Windows 98 in Oracle Virtualbox for use as a retro gaming platform.

The win98tools.iso file is downloadable at http://www.orbiterradio.com/win98tools.iso - it should have everything you need but a Windows 98 disc.

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• gaming
• virtualbox
• windows 98

[2345geno]

is that windows vista or 7 (not the vitural box the one u are using)

[minetogiveaway]

@2345geno Windows 7.

[minetogiveaway]

@adliikhwan280 The idea is that VirtualBox provides an abstraction layer between the hardware you have and the hardware the guest OS sees. You shouldn't need the driver for your actual modem - but you might need to find a Windows 98 backport of the virtualbox net device driver, since Win98 isn't officially supported as a guest any more they don't offer a version for it.

[adliikhwan280]

@minetogiveaway I know, I already used VirtualBox to emulate lots of programs. But I can't set up the internet since my modem doesn't have a CD and its made years after Windows 98.

[minetogiveaway]

@robloxlover55 If you're paying for VirtualBox, you're getting ripped off. It's an Oracle product which is available for free from their website.

[minetogiveaway]

@adliikhwan280 Well, Windows 98 wasn't the most internet-aware version of Windows ever, but virtualbox will allow you to connect the VM directly to the internet using a bridge to your host's network adapter. Or, if you're (rightly) concerned for the guest OS' wellbeing online, you can patch it through the host-only adapter to create a private network which you can share files through, or proxy out to the web and filter malicious incoming traffic.

It's roundabout, but it is possible.

[adliikhwan280]

How dafuq are you supposed to use the internet with that thing D:<

[reiss1100]

@2345geno its windows 7 see the desktop thing in the bottom right corner of the screen vista doesnt have it but 7 does

[MacHelper44]

i'm doing this for i could play fucking road rash

[robloxlover55]

@basicxml Ha Ha! 100+ $ Just to run A Windows Virtual Machine? I Think Not