VirtualBox 6.1 with Windows 95c

I decided to set myself up a goal of running some old, old games in Windows 95. I happened to have an old Windows 98se bootable media and a Windows 95c ISO.

In creating this VM I let the Create Wizard do the needful, and made the following additional modifications:

  • 256MB RAM
  • 2GB Hard Drive
  • Removing Floppy Controller

…and kept the VBoxVGA, PIIX4, SoundBlaster 16, PCnet-Fast II (Am79C973), and USB 2.0.

First off I boot up into my Windows 98se, partition, reboot, and then format the hard drive. Then I mount the Windows 95c disk and copy over the files to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS like the good old days. From that I run setup from the C: and go through the installation.

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