windows 98 games download iso installation in Virtual Box. Windows 98 is needed for some games that are not running through or with modern Windows machines (Win7,8, Vista, . ). Between such games we can name: Civilization 2, Road Rash, Outlaws, Grand Prix Manager, Adventures of Lomax and many more. If you download such games and try to run them, you will have following error: "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an (32-bit) or X64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher" The easiest way to make those games work is to install a Windows 98 emulation with Virtual Box. It must be said that once you'll have the machine, you will be able to use for DOS games as well, since Win98 is based on DOS system. So, if you find problem with Dosbox, this can be a good alternative. Step 2 - Software you'll need. Step 3 - preparation. Assign a name and a (windows platform, windows 98 - or 95 or Me) resource (128 MB or 256 MB to run all games) Disk space (2GB should be fine) Step 4 - Virtual ISO setting. Now you have the machine ready. You need to "insert the installation CD" by creating a virtual drive with Virtual Box. Go in settings select the drive and create a new CD/DVD drive assigning the ISO file related to the Win 98 installation CD. Once you've done so, you can run the virtual machine. Make sure you boot from CD the first time. Step 5 - Windows 98 setup. The process can last several minutes since it will format the hard drive and configure. Once it's finished you'll need to reboot. From now on you can always boot from Hard Disk since the OS has been installed. Keep the CD mounted since it will be useful later. Step 6 - Basic Windows 98 settings. At first boot, the system will ask you various information, included the license key. After it completes it will restart. It may takes a couple of restarts before finishing. If the system stuck during a restart, no worry, just shutdown the machine and start it again (normal boot if it prompts a boot choice). Step 7 - Scitech driver installation. Turn off Windows 98 Select virtual machine settings and then select "storage" Create a new drive (don't replace the installation CD, just create a new one) and assign scitech driver ISO Turn Windows 98 on Go in control panel and select the new CD mounted (Scitech). Run Scitech setup. System will ask for a restart, go ahead (if stuck, turn it off and start up from Virtual Box). Turn Windows 98 on, the Scitech should appear. Select properties and change driver to Scitech Nucleus. Apply and restart. At restart, go in screen settings (right click on desktop) and change to 16bit and screen resolution (800x600 or higher). Again, restart. Once it's been restarted you should have a bigger screen and a smoother experience. The driver expires within 21 days, you cannot buy since the software house no longer exists but you should be able to find registration keys around. Step 8 - How to finally play Win 98 games. Turn off Windows 98 Select virtual machine settings and then select "network" Select tab "Adapter 2" and there enable with the property "bridge adapter" Turn Windows 98 on A plug and play procedure will start and you will be asked to select driver: just select all reccomended and finalize. Now your Windows 98 is a node of the network Before you can share a folder, go in Computer>Control Panel>Network and there enable "File and Printer Sharing": just enable files. You will need to restart At restart, you can share your folder. Create one directory on desktop (or wherever you prefer) Then right click on the directory and select file sharing. Assign a sharing name and the priviledges (full control since you will write from your host) In order to know which is the machine address you can open a prompt and type "ipconfig" The "bridge" adapter will give you the address (tipically 192.168.0.x) Go in your host machine (your ) and run the following command \\192.168.0.x (or any value coming from win 98) - Don't turn Win98 off, just keep it running background You should be able to see the shared directory and copy your games there Once you've finished to copy, go in Win98, enter the shared directory and you'll be able to run your game! Annex 1 - Audio configuration. from your host OS (like you're doing for any game) Accept the disclaimer and choose the " for Driver only" codec. Download the Win 95 only, altough there is a driver for Win98 to your local machine. You'll get a file named "VXD_A406". Don't run it on your host, use an extractor to extract the content of the installer (with Winrar for instance, right click and "extract to") to a directory While Windows 98 is on, this directory to the shared folder (as done in step 8) Make sure the directory has been copied to Win 98 and turn it off From Virtual Box manager, select virtual machine settings and then select "audio" Switch the audio controller to "ICH AC97" Turn Windows 98 on A plug and play procedure will start and you will be asked to select driver: you need to browse on the directory where the "VXD_A406" installer is and select the "Win 95" subdirectory. The guest OS will install the new drivers and you should be able to run all kind of sounds ( included) If still the sounds is not working, try to restart If after restart it's not yet working, check the device manager (My Computer >> Control Panel >> System >> Device Manager) under the "Sound, Audio Controllers". Select the "Realtek AC97", Properties >> Driver >> Update driver. Again it will be asked the installation path, so again go to the "VXD_A406" directory and try reinstalling. Still need ? If you are stuck somewhere in the process or you need further explaination you can use our community in facebook, twitter or youtube. Write us there we'll be glad to help! How to play Windows 3.1/95/98/XP games. As the years goes by, more and more Windows games are added on the website. Some of them still work quite easily, others are lucky enough to have an active community developing patches and fixes to make them run on the most recent versions of Windows. Almost all Windows games are available as ISO version , meaning a verbatim copy of the game disks. If you don't know how to use these files, read our tutorial. You may also get these usual problems: ISO is not a .iso file : an ISO image is a of a CD or DVD file. Several file formats have been created to make ISO files and you will need to install another mounting software. In our archives, you'll come across BIN/CUE, MDF/MDS, CCD/IMG, NRG. You may want to convert these to ISO using WinBin2Iso, but you will lose audio tracks (usually music) if there are any. Corrupted ISO : many ISO files can't be mounted with the legacy ISO utility in . You need to install another mounting software, see this page. Game is asking for CD : games have a copy protection program to avoid piracy. You will need to replace the original .exe program with another one. Sometimes, we provide this replacement on the game page, labeled as "NoCD". Otherwise, look for a "crack" directory in the content of the ISO file. PCGamingWiki. Late 90s and 2000s titles may have a game page on PCGamingWiki, a wiki dedicated to fixes and workarounds for PC Games. We try to add a link to the right wiki URL on every game page, so you should check out the game links below the game description. You can also make a search on the wiki, or through Google by searching the name of the game + "site:PCGamingWiki.com" (without quotes). PCem . PCem is versatile IBM PC emulator, which allows you to properly emulate a whole computer, including late 99 computer. You also get a Voodoo2 3dfx card and many other drivers. This emulator can be very effective for Windows games until early 2000s generation. You can read this tutorial. Additional information and resources can be found on Emugen. Alternatively, you can use 86Box, a forked project from PCem which supports Pentium up to MMX 300 MHz. You can watch this video tutorial. + . Running Windows games under Linux can work surprisingly well, we have a dedicated tutorial here. Mac + Porting Kit. Mac user should definitly use VMWare Fusion to run install Win 95/98/XP, choose free / personnal edition. You can also run Windows games on your Mac using Porting Kit (free), or Crossover (14-day trial). Windows 3.1 Games. Some games were made for Windows 3.1 instead of DOS, you will need to install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. You will find a copy of Windows 3.x on WinWorld. Follow these tutorials to get it running: VirtualBox forum, Vogons, Sierra Help or this blog post. Windows 95 Games. Many of the Win95 games won't run on recent Windows versions, but you can install Win95 in DOSBox. The procedure is a bit complicated, hopefully dada_ and some folks over Vogons and #dosbox@freenode set up a guide to do this, check it out in the Google doc. You can also install Windows 95 in VirtualBox, follow this tutorial to do it. Mac users should definitly use VMWare Fusion instead of VirtualBox. Another promising solution would be windows95 Portable made by Felix Rieseberg, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Windows 98 Games. Some of the recent games were made for Windows 98. You can still get Win 98 working on your computer using VirtualBox. You will find a guide to the installation here, then a second guide to setup properly Windows. You should read BOTH of them before installing Windows 98. You can also use pre-configured Win98 VMWare images, available at WinWorld. Mac users should definitly use VMWare Fusion to run install Win 98, choose free / personnal edition. Windows XP Games. Some will work perfectly, some won't. We rarely have all the resources necessary to get these games to install and then be played. You may have to look over the web for a x64 setup file or fixed exe file. If you find a good tutorial, please post the URL in the comment or drop us a message. 3dfx Games. The second half of the 90s was very exciting as video games would start to benefit from 3D acceleration hardware. The 3dfx company released the Voodoo Graphics cards in 1996, which provided 3D acceleration for games that supported the technology. Performances and graphics were way ahead of the competition (Riva, Matrox, S3, ATI. ) but came at a price. 3dfx released its last Voodoo card in 2000, marking the end of 3dfx supported games. Hopefully, 3dfx can be emulated nowadays using nGlide, a free 3Dfx Voodoo Glide wrapper made by Zeus Software. Very easy to use, just install and play for most games, but you should visit the compatibility page, as many games require a patch or some tweaking. Another great glide wrapper is dgVoodoo2, which allows you to play not only 3dfx games, but also DirectX (1-7) and games. Both programs are very useful, as one may work better than the other. DirectX Games. As written above, dgVoodoo2 is great for old windows games which often use DirectX. You can also try these alternatives: dxwrapper, an on- going project which may prove difficult to use. WineD3D will convert DirectX to OpenGL, see the readme file in the utility folder. How to get the Windows 98 experience on today's PCs. Many popular Windows programs and games from the late 90's simply don't work out of the box in Windows 10. DOSBox is an emulator designed to mimic x86 PC's. While its primary focus is MS-DOS applications it can also run a number of titles you may remember using in Windows 98 such as Command and Conquer: Red Alert. To begin using DOSBox, select the 'Downloads' tab on the website and click the green download button. Once the download is complete, open your downloads folder and double click to launch the DOSBox installer. Click 'Yes' to allow Windows 10 to begin installation. Click 'Next' to continue, then do the same when DOSBox asks you to choose which components to install. Click the 'Install' button to finalize installation. A short cut to DOSBox will now appear on your desktop. Launch Windows apps. DOSBox contains its own crude version of the MS-DOS command prompt. This may be intimidating to Windows users who are accustomed to a friendly GUI but the commands you need to know are very simple. For security reasons DOSBox cannot access all the files on your hard disk. You must specify a folder for DOSBox to mount as a 'virtual' drive. For instance, to mount the folder 'DOOM2' in your downloads run: Next, switch to your virtual drive using the command: Use the '' command to list files and directories. You can employ the 'CD' command to switch between folders, for example: To run a program simply enter the full file name and extension. Mount ISO files in DOSBox. Certain programs and games can only be installed by CD or DVD. Some classic apps also used to require that the installation CD was inserted during run time to prevent software piracy. DOSBox can cope with this. Provided you have a digital ISO image of your chosen Windows program, DOSBox can mount it as a virtual CD using the 'imgemount' command: If you need to run installers or similar from the CD switch to the virtual CD drive using 'D:' DOSBox configuration. Although DOSBox attempts to emulate older PC's as faithfully as possible, you may need to fine tune your emulation settings. This is done by editing the DOSBox.conf. From here you can edit all DOSBox configuration settings. In Windows 10 the configuration file is found in your 'AppData' folder .g. :\Users\Nate\AppData. The configuration file can be modified using any simple text editor. We recommend dragging and dropping it into Notepad. Overview. If you don’t know which Windows 98 edition to install, we recommend that you install Windows 98SE . External links. DOSBox-X config file. You first need to create a DOSBox-X config file. Copy the above config and save it as win98.conf. General installation Notes. Some parts of the installation can take a considerable amount of time. You can speed this up somewhat by using the DOSBox-X mode. From the drop-down menu select "CPU" followed by "Turbo (Fast Forward)". But if you decide to use this, be sure to disable Turbo mode whenever you need to enter data or make choices, as it can cause spurious keypresses to be registered causing undesirable effects. It can also cause problems with double click with the mouse not working and audio will also not sound properly, so be sure to disable it when using Windows in DOSBox-X. When creating your HDD image with IMGMAKE , instead of specifying a custom size, you can choose a pre-defined template. The pre-defined HDD templates can be seen by running IMGMAKE without arguments. Dynamic vs Normal core. Starting with DOSBox-X 0.83.10 the dynamic_x86 core, which should perform much better, has been sufficiently enhanced that it can now be used for most use-cases with Windows 98. However, for now we still recommend that you do the installation of Windows 98 using core=normal until issue #2215 is resolved. But after the installation is finished you should be able to change to core=dynamic_x86 . Should you run into problems such as application crashes or a Windows 98 blue-screen that cannot be reproduced with core=normal , please report the problem on the DOSBox-X Git issues page. Creating a Harddisk image. Some quick rules about IMGMAKE (for more detail, see: Guide: Managing image files in DOSBox-X): Diskette (floppy) images are always created as FAT12. If your reported DOS version is 7.1 or higher, then harddisk images up to 512MB will use FAT16 by default. Larger size harddisk images will use FAT32 by default (larger than 2GB can only be created as FAT32). Alternatively, you can use the -fat option to instruct IMGMAKE to create a certain FAT type (assuming that is possible for the harddisk size). First you need to start DOSBox-X from the command-line, using your newly created win98.conf. This assumes that dosbox-x is in your path and win98.conf is in your current directory. Then in DOSBox-X you need to create a new harddisk image file with IMGMAKE . This example uses an 8GB hard disk image with a single FAT32 formatted partition. Technically the FAT32 filesystem is capable of supporting partitions up to 2TB, but the generic IDE driver in Windows 98 cannot handle volumes greater than 128GB. Larger partition sizes may be possible with 3rd party drivers but are not covered here. In later Windows versions, starting with , Microsoft won’t let you format a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32 using its built-in formatting tool, this was presumably to push migrations to NTFS and later exFAT. Or if you want to create a larger disk, you can create a custom type. This is an example of a 16GB (16*1024=16384 MB) disk, which due to its size, will be formatted as FAT32. Installation Method 1: Boot from CD-ROM image. Starting with Windows 98, it is possible to boot directly from the CD-ROM, as long as you have the "OEM Full" edition, in which case no separate bootdisk is needed. This installation method allows both FAT16 (up to 2GB) and FAT32 volumes, which can be up to 128GB for Windows 98. Requirements. DOSBox-X 0.83.10 or later, these instructions will NOT work with other DOSBox forks. Windows 98 OEM Full edition CD-ROM image (named "Win98.iso" in the example below). Getting this image file is outside the scope of this guide. Starting the installation. This assumes you have already started DOSBox-X with the win98.conf config file and created your harddisk image. First mount the harddisk image you created earlier: Now let’s boot from the CD-ROM and start the installation. You will first get a Startup menu, where you need to select "Boot from CD-ROM". At this point it should format the harddisk and the installation process should start. When the Windows installer reboots, and your back at the DOSBox-X Z:\> prompt. Close DOSBox-X and edit your win98.conf config file, and add the following lines in the [autoexec] section at the end of the file: Now start DOSBox-X as follows to continue the installation process: Transfer Windows 98 install files to your HDD image. This is an optional step. It is to prevent Windows from asking for the CD-ROM whenever it needs additional files. Boot Windows 98 with the CD-ROM image mounted. In Windows 98, copy the \WIN98 directory and its contents from the CD-ROM to your C: drive. You can copy it to any directory you want, but we assume here that you copied it to C:\WIN98. Once the files are copied, start REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup and change SourcePath= to the location where you copied the files. e.g., SourcePath=C:\WIN98. In the case of Windows 98SE, copying the entire directory will require roughly 174MB of diskspace. The \WIN98\OLS and \WIN98\TOUR sub-directories can however be skipped which will save roughly 54MB, bringing the total to roughly 120MB. Installation Method 2. Requirements. DOSBox-X 0.83.10 or later, these instructions will NOT work with other DOSBox forks. Windows 98 CD-ROM image (named "Win98.iso" in the example below). Getting this image file is outside the scope of this guide. Starting the installation. This assumes you have already started DOSBox-X with the win98.conf config file and created your harddisk image. First mount the harddisk image you created earlier: You will also need to mount the Windows 98 CD-ROM. There are a few ways of doing so, but this guide assumes you have a ISO image. If you have a copy of the Windows 98 CD-ROM as an ISO (or a cue/bin pair), you can mount it as follows: Copying the contents of the CD-ROM. While not strictly necessary, as it is possible to run SETUP.EXE directly from the CD-ROM (if you have the CD-ROM automatically mounted in your [autoexec] section of the config file). It is recommended to copy the installation files (contents of the WIN98 directory on the CD-ROM) to your HDD image, as it will prevent Windows 98 from asking for the CD-ROM when it needs additional files later. The files in the above example are copied to the C:\WIN98 directory. You may want to use C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS instead, as that is the directory that OEM installs normally use. But if you do, be aware that the installer will attempt to install into C:\WINDOWS.000 as C:\WINDOWS already exists. If you get the above screen during SETUP, select "Other directory" to change it back to C:\WINDOWS. Classic Windows games. At the end of the DOS era, PCs started to mount the latest Operative Systems from Microsoft. Starting from version 3.1, Windows became very popular and more and more software houses began to produce games for Windows. The first games for Windows 3.1 weren't very popular; there were solitaire card games, puzzle games and little else. With the release of Windows 95, 98 and Windows XP, the Microsoft OS became central in the development of mainstream video games like Age of Empires and the Civilization series. Unfortunately, backward compatibility quickly became a problem: it's easier to run DOS games using an emulator. The only safe way to play old Windows games on recent PCs is to install them directly on an older version of Windows or, if you're an expert, use a Virtual Machine. Age of Empires, published by Microsoft and developed by Ensemble Studios, is one of the most popular historical RTS and started a successful series. The player must guide a civilization from prehistory to the iron age, battling other civilizations, building and gathering resources.