Because this video is 3 years old and from a previous version of Virtualbox it is impossible to support. I would recommend watching my newest video for PCEm ruclips.net/video/WDKWHVebaHY/видео.html I will make an updated version for Virtualbox as soon as I can but will be a few weeks at least.
18:33 dont click on "Windows 98 Second Edition.iso" instead click on "Controller IDE" and then click on the blue floppy disk icon on the bottom to add your doctor iso file. LIKE THIS so people can see.
A really comprehensive and concise guide! Windows 98's notoriously finicky to install as a virtual machine compared to other Windows versions, but this lays the process out in a way that shows everything you need to know.
No it doesn't! His instructions are garbage. He doesn't even offer assistance either. Maybe he works for Mircosoft as they don't give assistance either.
@@Ltcolonel97062 wow that's some mad dude right here xD... If it doesn't work, try to understand why, don't insult people actually sharing knowledge.
After fighting and struggling for 10 weeks, I finally solved the file share problem: VirtualBox + Windows XP + Guest Additions DOES WORK in Windows XP.
Thank you so much for this video, it was a complete blessing to watch this. My mum has been asking me about this one cute educational game we played like 20 years ago when I was 4, and she wanted so much to play it again just for the nostalgia. Last month, after over 5 years of scouting the web for it I finally found a copy in my native language, and the only way I was able to make it run on modern hardware was with your tutorial. So again, thank you so much for making such a high quality and easy to understand tutorial on such a complicated subject. You're a hero, sir. Have a great week! :)
@@glitch373 The name was "Pong-pong's Learning Adventure - Animals". Aka the only educational game I've ever been able to have fun with, excluding the Reading Rabbit and Sanctuary Kids' Franklin games. What made it a pain in the ass to find was the brazilian dubbed version lol
@@lolfunimomentbruhmoviedown2701 Idk. What's winworld? (*googles it*) _"An online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software."_ Huh. So kind of an alternative to Internet Archive? That's pretty neat. But it certainly didn't help me find an obscure game made by a russian team released only in Hong Kong and Brazil lol. But thankfully a fellow brazilian preservationist got his hands on a copy and shared it with me :)
Thank you sir. After struggling for, like, 2 or 3 hours straight, I abandoned the idea of a working Windows 98 machine, because my brain couldn't even handle so much information (note that I tried to do what you exactly did in this video, but on my own). I myself do love going retro from time to time, and thanks to you, I can now finally get that thorn I had on my back since I tried to do this almost like a year ago. Thanks to you, I now have a fully working Windows 98 machine, as well as a real way to "insert CDs" on it, which I didn't even know how to do =)
Thank you very much! I knew how to do a full installation of Windows 98 but did not know how to do it with ACPI and had problems getting the SciTech driver to work. This has helped me a lot to replace DOSBox and to be able to better play Windows 98 games and MS-DOS games. Regards from Spain!
This is just amazing. I love being able to run old windows games again on my modern gaming pc! I already got windows XP installed and now doing windows 98 lol!
Nevets this is a really clean and well done video. Relaxing to watch even. I came online praying for a walkthrough like this and was pleasantly surprised. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video, its almost like you read my mind lol I had spent so much time trying to figure this out and then I stumbled upon your new video and it has really made my day. Thanks again :)
I did it! Thank you so much for your video! I played a game I haven't seen in years! I normally hate tutorials because I'm dumb and don't understand everything that's being said. But your walkthrough made this worth it!
Thanks a lot! I had just built a 98 machine using your previous video. I found it is easy to share files if you create a shared folder in the guest machine (Win 98) and copy the files from the host machine there. I was not able to make Win98 see a share in the host machine. Just for the sake of nostalgia, I installed Netscape Navigator...
Awesome, clear, well-paced video. I went from knowing near nothing of virtual machines to being up & running for my purposes half way through the video. Thanks! I wanted to highlight two errors & solutions for everyone. From the comments, many others ran into them too, but I really had to dig to find a comment that solved each, so I am putting the solutions together here. Note that I am using VirtualBox 6.1.28. These two problems appear to be caused if you're using a Ryzen CPU. First, upon a successful install and getting to Windows, you'll get this error: "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL: tFileAttributesA." Explorer will probably also crash and you cannot do anything with the desktop. To solve this, go to your VM settings -> system -> acceleration tab -> uncheck "Enable Nested Paging" under Hardware Virtualization. The error should no longer occur. The second issue is that once you install SciTech Display Doctor, you may get a blue screen. Upon any further boots, you will encounter this error: "Windows Protection Error, you need to restart your system." The solution is outlined in this video: ruclips.net/video/dthSP0np8Rw/видео.html But, in case that video ever disappears, here is the solution: in your computer (not the VM), open the command prompt and navigate to where VirtualBox is installed (probably C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox). Input one of the following commands. Remember to replace "VM name" with the name of your VM (if you followed this tutorial, it would be "Windows 98"). You may need to try more than one to find a suitable fix. I used the fourth one (Intel Core i5-3570) and that worked: VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz" VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-2635QM" VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-3960X" VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i5-3570" VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-5600U" VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K" Hope this helps someone!
hey if anyone else is as stupid as me when it comes to the command prompt, in order to navigate to the folder, you must put "cd" before the folder name. and then after you press enter, you type the command with "VM name" as "Windows 98" and it should work!
Very good explanations and very well detailed. It's really great to have put all the links. I am really happy to be able to play my old Windows 95 and 98 games with my children during confinement (lockdown). Thank you very much from France
If I could like your video a million times I would! It took me 4 days and like a million videos before I came across yours and it worked right away! Thank you so much!
I've been trying to get this to work for a month on my own to no avail. You have fixed it for me with these very comprehensive instructions. Thank you so much.
Hello, mate. I'm having trouble with internet connection in Windows ME Retail, running inside VMware workstation. I did exactly the same procedure like you, but I still cannot hit google url.... Any tip would be great, thanks
For everyone who has done this successfully kindly make a download for your completed 98 Virtual Machine so that for those of us who are too stupid to do it on our own can have it.
@@chippie4595 When I go to start the vm with the win98se image I get this error "The exception Breakpoint. A breakpoint has been reached.(0x80000003) occurred in the application at location 0x5bd280e6."
For anyone who does the Mouse Command line and gets the "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows 98. HID failed to attach mouse driver (VERR_PDM_NO_ATTACHED_DRIVER)", The fix is to inter the following text: "%ProgramFiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" setextradata "Windows 98" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift It is the same command without the 0 at the end. This will remove the setting from virtual box and everything should be back to normal.
Nice work there! Had troubles with the path for that mouse thing. Just didn't work for me for some reason. And the display doctor part didn't work either (it said that it would require a newer version of windows - i just googled your version, found another file and it worked). Now i can play old games that don't run on modern Win. You are a hero. If you'd install a donate button, you could become a millionaire in a year or less. ;) Thanks again. Feel honored to help so many people.
the same thing happened to me with the display doctor! please tell me you remember the link you found the other file because I cant find one for the life of me
I recommend using PCem for Windows 9x instead of VirtualBox. PCem emulates different sound cards (SB16, GUS, MT32) and graphics cards (S3 ViRGE, Voodoo). Windows 98 in PCem runs perfectly, the same way as it used to run on real hardware. And all games work as well. The only downside with PCem is that it requires more CPU power than VirtualBox (since PCem emulates the hardware).
Zirkoni88, on VMware Player I get so many errors during installation and while using Win98. It's causing me a lot of grief. Do you have any errors like that at all with PCem? Also haven't watched this video in a while, so I don't recall if this virtual box set-up has any problems like that.
People say the same about DosEmu but I could never find easy tutorials for installation. Would you mind uploading your PCem virtual machine for us? I feel like there's no guide to learn how to do this stuff, it's insanely complicated process. And Dosbox is still too slow for certain SVGA 3D games.
Thank you. I will have a play with this and see what I can do with it. It might be worth doing a comparison video. The hardware emulation looks really interesting.
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this fantastic video. I wanted Windows 98 so I could run an old game of Combat Flight Simulator. With your video I was eventually able to get Windows 98 working on my Lubuntu Linux PC as a virtual machine using VirtualBox. The mouse works great too. I did have a few hiccups on the way and here are the steps that worked for me in the end. 1) I found it best to run the "VBoxManage" command (that modified my virtual machine for better mouse performance) before my first attempt to start the Virtual Machine using the Windows 98 ISO file. a) On my Linux machine I didn't need to specify the path of the VBoxManage command. I also didn't need the .exe extension for VBoxManage. My command was as follows: VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name Here" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0 If I waited till later to run this command (at the point you had in your video) I had serious mouse issues when setting the time and date and also my VM crashed with a HID mouse driver fail error when I tried to start the VM again. 2) The Link you provided to download the SciTech Version 7 Beta Doctor utility downloaded a file that was flagged by a Windows 10 PC I had as being potentially problematic by Windows Defender. The file had a non descriptive name and my Windows Defender definitely didn't like it. I was able to find elsewhere on the internet the utility with a more appropriate name. It also came bundled with the sdd.iso file already made for me. I did download it on my Linux machine though. 3) On my Linux VirtualBox setup, after I attached the ssd.iso file and configured my display for 1024x768 I got a "Windows Protecion" error when I restared. Researching online I found out that this error was due to my SciTech driver not liking what ever CPU I had (I had an Amd Athlon II). I was able to solve the problem with the following command which spoofed the Virtual Machine into reporting a different cpu type to the SciTech driver. I ran this command before attaching the "ssd.iso" file and encountered no more issues. VBoxManage modifyvm "Your Vm Name Here" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i5-3570"
So I'm revisiting a project I've been doing wanting to do and while installing the graphics for Windows 98, it seems to not like SDD after rebooting. It blue screen and locks up after rebooting itself again with a message: "Windows Protection Error, you need to restart your system." With this, I've followed to the T with your instructions. I also tried re-burning the sdd.exe again, no luck. The Blue Screen says: Windows A fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0028:C008 F38C in VXD sddhelp(01) + 00013024. The current application will be terminated. • Press any key to terminate the current application. • Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. You will lose any unsaved information in all applications. Press any key to continue _
Please show 2 issues: 1 - Show is it possible or not to play CD-Audio in Virtual box+Win98Se 2. How to manage problem with too much high rate of processor speed. It makes sound and video play choppy in a lot of games. Desperately need to decrease CPU cycles.
www.old-games.ru/game/download/5118.html Here is an example. 1997 FMV adventure game with audio-cd in it. You can successfully install and run the game, but you will experience absence of ambient music themes from CD
Great tutorial!!! I can say hands down, the best on the net. I searched everywhere and none were as detailed or thorough as this... Thanks for this! Now, I can play all the old awesome games from the 90s!!! Thanks again
Thank you!! It worked for me! I was receiving an error after instalation and all I had to do was to disable the nested pagination. Then it worked pretty well.
Can you help, have followed this tutorial but on start up I am getting The SHELL32.dll file is linked to the missing export SHLWAPI.dll:tFileAttributesA. I never get to a desktop!
@@lolzlmaorofl yes Ryzen CPU. I found some people asking this same question on other forums, I found that if I turn off Hardware Virtualisation it does run. Not very well but it does finish the install and run
Love the tutorial! I cept having errors and I ended up leaving the PS/2mouse, and had to disable (Nested paging) in System/Ecceleration. Booted up great!
when getting the better graphics around 17:00 the link to download the scitech display doctor v7.0 beta is differnt than the one in the video, along with downloading it i get a different .exe file, no idea what to do next
thank you so much :) i had to go hunting a little for the right file to scitech display doctor (since the link in the description leads to a version that does not work properly), but other than that everything went perfectly.
I got an error message... it says "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shit down" after following everything exactly how it was explained including the iso download...
I think something happened to your scitech display doctor link the download does not contain the file for the program, but something my windows defender and anti-virus picked up. You might want to update it
HELP. It gives me an error saying “The hardware virtualization is enabled in the acceleration section of the system page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the system” I TURNED IT OFF AND IT STILL ISNT WORKINGGGG
Hey Nevets, whenever I launch up Win 98 SE, it tells me "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA." Help me please.
When I am nearing completion on the Windows 98 install, I keep getting "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA." error message. I have tried to install multiple times following the directions but I keep running into this same problem. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? EDIT: From what I can tell, it is because of my AMD Ryzen processor
Yes, I only have Intel processor computers and as a result have never been able to test this. You are probably right, nearly everyone that has a problem are running AMD processors. Unfortunately, I do not know the solution, however, there are some setting in the VM that might help with some eperimentation.
@@steve24822 the solution I've found for Ryzen is to goto system, acceleration, and disable nested paging. It might give a alight performance hit though for some people.
OMG, for an old bike teck this Dell optiplex hardware build has been fun. Now to get this installed is going to be a hair puller... Thank you , wish me luck. Bob.
Like you said, Scitech Display Doctor v7.0 resolves the display resolution issue. However there is a side-effect where it always locks up Windows 98 during shut down. I might have to uninstall this utility and find a more stable alternative.
When I try to run the sdd.iso after attaching it to the D drive of Windows 98 machine, it says "The D:\75661_VMDIJ.EXE file expects a newer version of Windows. Upgrade your Windows version." Since the Display Doctor file name is so much different now, I'm assuming this is a different file that is incompatible?
Same thing happened to me and one other guy i found in the comments. He said he found another file online that worked but I still haven't been able to find one
@@official_gd_sadd_2024_yt Yeah, I know. What I meant is that trying to run Win98 in PCEM, VMWare or QEMU is even more of a pain compared to running it in VB. PCEM is highly resource intensive, for one. So if you don't have a high spec "host PC", you're fucked.
@Zark Hussain There's plenty of people selling Windows 98 machines. www.ebay.com/b/Windows-98-PC-Desktops-All-In-One-Computers/179/bn_2781373 And if that fails, just do a google search like I did, in google search bar "windows 98 computer for sale" you'll get results. Not sure how ebay is a sketchy site. I've purchased multiple items from there and haven't run into a problem. There are people out there who aren't genuine, but you're going to have that no matter what. So the decision becomes yours. Do you do the research, talk to people, find a person who is legit and make a purchase, or do you let your fears control you? I have a friend who won't even dare use his debit card online because of "hackers". Been using my debit cards online for 20 years now, the only time I had a problem, is when I used my debit card to pay for a meal at an airport. Someone on the staff skimmed my card, because later that night, it showed a $101 bill in the same state where I flew out of. If I became scared of my card being skimmed or whatever, I'd only ever use the card for cash withdraws. But I don't let fear control me and what I want to do in my life. And honestly, I've been looking for a while now to make a purchase on one of those Windows 98 computers from ebay.
Ok, to be honest, I thought I would need to sacrifice one of my old laptops just to install Windows 98 on it, and get rid of Windows 10. WELL, I saw this video, and I did everything and it worked! Now, I am so happy that I don't have to actually buy the Windows 98 disc! All I've needed to do all along was use a virtual machine to emulate Windows 98. Thanks, Nevets!
Very useful video, thank you. The step where you get Scitech Display Doctor has changed a little since recording, you now download an installer exe which then downloads the SDD exe file for you. Seems a bit dodgy but hey ho the 90's internet was like that 😂
Thank you for the great guide. I thought once you used j to install Windows, that might have solved the problem I was having, however I'm still running into problems. Once I get to 13:50 in the video, when windows is booting up, I get errors. When the password screen opens the first error I see is "The shell32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL : tFileAttributesA. That error appears twice. Then Explorer performs an illegal operation and will be shut down. I tried slowing the CPU down in settings, but then on boot something called Runonce starting giving me errors. Any ideas? Thanks
@@mintydog06 - can't quite see felicity's suggestions. Any further attempts to solve the SHELL32.DLL and SHLWAPI.DLL errors and crashes? And something about a Power dll too. Almost a day at this so far, but no progress ..except for one success when I lowered the CPU to 40%, but the trouble's back. Ever solve it?
@@mintydog06 UPDATE I had progress late yesterday. Buried down in a 2021 comment it looks at though detran09 solved it! SELECT PARAVIRTUALISATION TO LEGACY, In Settings, System, Acceleration. Probably disable Hardware Virtualisation too: leave 'Enable nested paging' unticked. And do the other things, too. This is in Sept, 2023 using VB7.0.10 r158379 (Qt5.15.2) on Windows 10 22H2. Now to solve what's happening with 'Error loading powerprof.dll'. One of the library files missing 8-| - but nothing much seems affected. No LAN, of course, and I haven't tried the 'net. Everything gets in via virtual floppies or CDs, apparently. Someone made a comment implying that ImgBurn could be bypassed via a CD icon in the Vbox menu that did the conversion of an exe to an iso itself. Not tried yet. Good luck.
hey man i get a error after i boot to windows saying that a shell32.dll file is linked to missing export shlwapi.dll:tFileAttributrsA. What should i do to fix it??
Super video. I tried to install Win98 before some times, but I did not get it running; until now.. I have some of my 30 - 25 y.o. games already running. I needed some tweaking after I installed Win98 according to the video. What I do is I make clones of the VM all the time. I use the clone for tweaking settings or installing software. If it doesn't work, I delete the clone and make another one. If it works I install the software on my "master" VM.
Thank you Nevets. I have a VM of WinME on my Zorin OS but had difficulty with the Guest Additions addon. Since Win 98 & WinME are very similar this same process should work. BTW do you know how to enable joypads / usb controllers in VirtualBox? If not that's alright, very helpful vid 👍 -EDIT never mind, I see the vid after this you put gamepad in. Thank you soo much, subbed 🙂
Hit ISO IMAGE to download it). Attach ISO, Control panel -> System -> Video Adapter -> Properties -> Update Driver. Navigate to CD. Folder 032 worked at default video RAM. You may have to change it...
Hey, could anyone help? I get an arrow when im about to boot up windows 98 saying, Insufficient memory to initialize windows. :( Edit: I fixed it I realized I put too many megabytes so I went from 7500mb to 512mb, and it fixed the problem.
Thanks for a great video. My host is a Mac, so I'd be grateful if you could tell me what exactly should I type in the Terminal to sort out the mouse, if you have time.
Everything went fine for the first half, but when I got to 13:30, in front of the login screen it gave me an error saying "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA.". Then after that it just gives me an error on Explorer.exe saying "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor"
you probably won't see this reply, but I had the same issue, after a bit of research it's because we're using Ryzen CPUs, because Ryzen has some trouble running 32 bit applications this is what causes that problem. In order to fix it you need to boot Windows 98 into safe mode, which will skip all processes that aren't required, such as SHLWAPI.DLL. To go into safe mode, the second your you selct boot from hard disk, press left control, this will put you in a prompt asking you how you want to boot windows. Select safe mode. From there you should boot into windows. Right click on the computer icon it File System, then Troubleshooting, then click on the tick next to where it says Disable all 32-bit protected mode disk drivers. This will disable the incompatible drivers. It will ask you to restart your computer, go ahead and restart it. You should be able to boot into windows normally now. Hope this helps :)
@@arskamusicman7444 using windows without any of the drivers prevents basically anything from working. Unfortunately this isn’t fixable without using something that emulates a CPU. What I’m currently doing is using the 64 bit version of Windows XP, because it can run most Windows 95 stuff, and run on Ryzen. The only problem is, it’s harder to find online. A good place to look would be archive.org, in their software section
I had a hell of a time trying to instal W98 in Virtualbox on my Ryzen 5 system. Did it on my i5-3570K with zero problems went flawlessly. Now I'm going to copy the 98 virtual hard drive over to the Ryzen system, see if it'll run.
@@LanceMcGrew boilerplate reply: Have you run this command from a Cmd box from the same account (don't change to an admin if you're not one) - from the Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ directory?: VBoxManage.exe" setextradata "Windows 98SE" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0 Elsewhere someone has said try removing the 0 at the end of the command. Ever have any luck?
I can NOT get windows 98 to power because I’ve been trying to find the windows 98 disc image file to put in the optical slot but the image file doesn’t show up, somebody help me please.
Give me a legal operation in the middle of the setup it says this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down if the problem persists contact the program vendor in the middle of the setup and then I gives me clothes and details it says all this random s*** if I type in details and then it says on the show 32.dll is linked to the missing export shall wapda Dlow filox your boots
I was watching your video because I'm trying to get this going, I need to run microsoft return of arcade. So I saw you do "mkdir win98". I got confused for a minute and then remembered, you don't need mkdir, just md. M for Make and d for directory, C:\>md win98 = Make Directory win98, same as mkdir win98, you're just shortening the mkdir part. Am a fluent DOS 6.22 user lol.
it keeps saying this error message: "The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the System page although it is not supported by the host system. it should be disabled in order to start the virtual system." i cant click OK, even though i disabled it, please help!
Because this video is 3 years old and from a previous version of Virtualbox it is impossible to support. I would recommend watching my newest video for PCEm ruclips.net/video/WDKWHVebaHY/видео.html
I will make an updated version for Virtualbox as soon as I can but will be a few weeks at least.
thank you so much for both this and the update
@@nonewmsgs Happy to help! I will do a version 7 video at some point which deals with AMD processor problems. Takes a while though.
i updated version of this would indeed be usefull
@@nakkipate1953 I will get to it but time is a bit tricky at the moment. Definitely needs to be done.
That would be amazing! I tried using this tutorial on VirtualBox 7, and I always get an error halfway through.
18:33 dont click on "Windows 98 Second Edition.iso" instead click on "Controller IDE" and then click on the blue floppy disk icon on the bottom to add your doctor iso file.
LIKE THIS so people can see.
I browsed, clicked the "Windows 98 Second Edition.iso" from my desktop where I left it, and it worked. Not sure what you mean here.
why not?
I had to start over because I forgot about this comment, wow
@@freshuniversegaming But why? I didn't have to do that, I did what nevets showed and it works.
Floppy does not support .iso
A really comprehensive and concise guide! Windows 98's notoriously finicky to install as a virtual machine compared to other Windows versions, but this lays the process out in a way that shows everything you need to know.
No it doesn't! His instructions are garbage. He doesn't even offer assistance either. Maybe he works for Mircosoft as they don't give assistance either.
@@Ltcolonel97062 wow that's some mad dude right here xD... If it doesn't work, try to understand why, don't insult people actually sharing knowledge.
After fighting and struggling for 10 weeks, I finally solved the file share problem: VirtualBox + Windows XP + Guest Additions DOES WORK in Windows XP.
Thank you so much for this video, it was a complete blessing to watch this. My mum has been asking me about this one cute educational game we played like 20 years ago when I was 4, and she wanted so much to play it again just for the nostalgia. Last month, after over 5 years of scouting the web for it I finally found a copy in my native language, and the only way I was able to make it run on modern hardware was with your tutorial. So again, thank you so much for making such a high quality and easy to understand tutorial on such a complicated subject. You're a hero, sir. Have a great week! :)
What was the game out of curiosity? I have fond memories of some of those 90s educational games too!
@@glitch373 Duke Nukem 3D
christ, five years? did winworld not exist back then?
@@glitch373 The name was "Pong-pong's Learning Adventure - Animals". Aka the only educational game I've ever been able to have fun with, excluding the Reading Rabbit and Sanctuary Kids' Franklin games. What made it a pain in the ass to find was the brazilian dubbed version lol
@@lolfunimomentbruhmoviedown2701 Idk. What's winworld? (*googles it*)
_"An online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software."_ Huh. So kind of an alternative to Internet Archive? That's pretty neat. But it certainly didn't help me find an obscure game made by a russian team released only in Hong Kong and Brazil lol. But thankfully a fellow brazilian preservationist got his hands on a copy and shared it with me :)
Thank you sir. After struggling for, like, 2 or 3 hours straight, I abandoned the idea of a working Windows 98 machine, because my brain couldn't even handle so much information (note that I tried to do what you exactly did in this video, but on my own).
I myself do love going retro from time to time, and thanks to you, I can now finally get that thorn I had on my back since I tried to do this almost like a year ago. Thanks to you, I now have a fully working Windows 98 machine, as well as a real way to "insert CDs" on it, which I didn't even know how to do =)
Thank you very much!
I knew how to do a full installation of Windows 98 but did not know how to do it with ACPI and had problems getting the SciTech driver to work.
This has helped me a lot to replace DOSBox and to be able to better play Windows 98 games and MS-DOS games.
Regards from Spain!
This is just amazing. I love being able to run old windows games again on my modern gaming pc! I already got windows XP installed and now doing windows 98 lol!
you could use backward compatibly mode that windows 10 has on retro game that doesnt work on modren computer but you can use it on virtual machine
@@Timcup448 yeah except its really unreliable and often doesn't work at all
@@k.c.hatter5198 I have NEVER had ANY luck with Windows Compatibility Mode. I think MS just put the link there to make it look like it works.
Nevets this is a really clean and well done video. Relaxing to watch even. I came online praying for a walkthrough like this and was pleasantly surprised. Thanks!
Thank you. I don't have time to make many videos but when I do , I try to please!
@@steve24822 You have failed in my book. Your video is confusing and doesn't make sense to me personally.
@@Ltcolonel97062 bruh
@@steve24822hello can you change your link like google drive
Thank you so much for this video, its almost like you read my mind lol I had spent so much time trying to figure this out and then I stumbled upon your new video and it has really made my day. Thanks again :)
No problem, there is more to come.
one thing if your mouse works DO NOT RUN THAT COMMAND you will no longer be able to boot to win98 and you have to restart.
I did it! Thank you so much for your video! I played a game I haven't seen in years! I normally hate tutorials because I'm dumb and don't understand everything that's being said. But your walkthrough made this worth it!
Thanks a lot! I had just built a 98 machine using your previous video. I found it is easy to share files if you create a shared folder in the guest machine (Win 98) and copy the files from the host machine there. I was not able to make Win98 see a share in the host machine. Just for the sake of nostalgia, I installed Netscape Navigator...
Hi there TrustNo1: - If you have any pointers on file sharing (Windows Additions just returns DLL link errors), PLEEEEZE reply to this comment asap. X
Awesome, clear, well-paced video. I went from knowing near nothing of virtual machines to being up & running for my purposes half way through the video.
Thanks!
I wanted to highlight two errors & solutions for everyone. From the comments, many others ran into them too, but I really had to dig to find a comment that solved each, so I am putting the solutions together here. Note that I am using VirtualBox 6.1.28.
These two problems appear to be caused if you're using a Ryzen CPU.
First, upon a successful install and getting to Windows, you'll get this error:
"The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL: tFileAttributesA." Explorer will probably also crash and you cannot do anything with the desktop.
To solve this, go to your VM settings -> system -> acceleration tab -> uncheck "Enable Nested Paging" under Hardware Virtualization. The error should no longer occur.
The second issue is that once you install SciTech Display Doctor, you may get a blue screen. Upon any further boots, you will encounter this error: "Windows Protection Error, you need to restart your system."
The solution is outlined in this video:
ruclips.net/video/dthSP0np8Rw/видео.html
But, in case that video ever disappears, here is the solution: in your computer (not the VM), open the command prompt and navigate to where VirtualBox is installed (probably C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox).
Input one of the following commands. Remember to replace "VM name" with the name of your VM (if you followed this tutorial, it would be "Windows 98"). You may need to try more than one to find a suitable fix. I used the fourth one (Intel Core i5-3570) and that worked:
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz"
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-2635QM"
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-3960X"
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i5-3570"
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-5600U"
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K"
Hope this helps someone!
tysm!, I had a ryzen cpu and you helped me a lot. Thanks again
Thank you! I was looking all over and wondering why nothing worked. Ended up with a working Win95 install.
THIS needs to be pinned. Thank YOU
hey if anyone else is as stupid as me when it comes to the command prompt, in order to navigate to the folder, you must put "cd" before the folder name. and then after you press enter, you type the command with "VM name" as "Windows 98" and it should work!
Very good explanations and very well detailed. It's really great to have put all the links. I am really happy to be able to play my old Windows 95 and 98 games with my children during confinement (lockdown). Thank you very much from France
If I could like your video a million times I would! It took me 4 days and like a million videos before I came across yours and it worked right away! Thank you so much!
I've been trying to get this to work for a month on my own to no avail. You have fixed it for me with these very comprehensive instructions. Thank you so much.
This video has been re-uploaded due to an error that an observant subscriber pointed out to me. Thanks for the help!
Hello, mate. I'm having trouble with internet connection in Windows ME Retail, running inside VMware workstation. I did exactly the same procedure like you, but I still cannot hit google url.... Any tip would be great, thanks
Nevets warning the mouse set up is currently useless and will actually break it as in the current version it’s not needed.
@@subjectdelta7210 Thanks for the information. I will pin a comment which will hopefully help.
@@subjectdelta7210 How do i get the mouse to work =/
Erika CH mine just worked without the command
For everyone who has done this successfully kindly make a download for your completed 98 Virtual Machine so that for those of us who are too stupid to do it on our own can have it.
sorry im stupid but how do i make my finished 98 vm a download
I wish I knew. All this is doing is making me more and more frustrated.
@@chippie4595 When I go to start the vm with the win98se image I get this error "The exception Breakpoint. A breakpoint has been reached.(0x80000003) occurred in the application at location 0x5bd280e6."
@@chippie4595scroll the RUclips for what you need
For anyone who does the Mouse Command line and gets the "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows 98. HID failed to attach mouse driver (VERR_PDM_NO_ATTACHED_DRIVER)", The fix is to inter the following text:
"%ProgramFiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" setextradata "Windows 98" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift
It is the same command without the 0 at the end. This will remove the setting from virtual box and everything should be back to normal.
thanks!
cheers!
Nice work there! Had troubles with the path for that mouse thing. Just didn't work for me for some reason. And the display doctor part didn't work either (it said that it would require a newer version of windows - i just googled your version, found another file and it worked).
Now i can play old games that don't run on modern Win. You are a hero. If you'd install a donate button, you could become a millionaire in a year or less. ;)
Thanks again. Feel honored to help so many people.
the same thing happened to me with the display doctor! please tell me you remember the link you found the other file because I cant find one for the life of me
Command line for mouse on Macbook:
VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0
I recommend using PCem for Windows 9x instead of VirtualBox.
PCem emulates different sound cards (SB16, GUS, MT32) and graphics cards (S3 ViRGE, Voodoo). Windows 98 in PCem runs perfectly, the same way as it used to run on real hardware. And all games work as well. The only downside with PCem is that it requires more CPU power than VirtualBox (since PCem emulates the hardware).
Zirkoni88, on VMware Player I get so many errors during installation and while using Win98. It's causing me a lot of grief. Do you have any errors like that at all with PCem?
Also haven't watched this video in a while, so I don't recall if this virtual box set-up has any problems like that.
People say the same about DosEmu but I could never find easy tutorials for installation. Would you mind uploading your PCem virtual machine for us? I feel like there's no guide to learn how to do this stuff, it's insanely complicated process. And Dosbox is still too slow for certain SVGA 3D games.
@@Ne1s0n64 You can also use Virtual PC 2007.
Thank you. I will have a play with this and see what I can do with it. It might be worth doing a comparison video. The hardware emulation looks really interesting.
@Pavol Potočňák It's works fine on Windows 10 32-bit.
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this fantastic video. I wanted Windows 98 so I could run an old game of Combat Flight Simulator.
With your video I was eventually able to get Windows 98 working on my Lubuntu Linux PC as a virtual machine using VirtualBox. The mouse works great too.
I did have a few hiccups on the way and here are the steps that worked for me in the end.
1) I found it best to run the "VBoxManage" command (that modified my virtual machine for better mouse performance) before my first attempt to start the Virtual Machine using the Windows 98 ISO file.
a) On my Linux machine I didn't need to specify the path of the VBoxManage command. I also didn't need the .exe extension for VBoxManage. My command was as follows:
VBoxManage setextradata "Your VM Name Here" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0
If I waited till later to run this command (at the point you had in your video) I had serious mouse issues when setting the time and date and also my VM crashed with a HID mouse driver fail error when I tried to start the VM again.
2) The Link you provided to download the SciTech Version 7 Beta Doctor utility downloaded a file that was flagged by a Windows 10 PC I had as being potentially problematic by Windows Defender. The file had a non descriptive name and my Windows Defender definitely didn't like it. I was able to find elsewhere on the internet the utility with a more appropriate name. It also came bundled with the sdd.iso file already made for me. I did download it on my Linux machine though.
3) On my Linux VirtualBox setup, after I attached the ssd.iso file and configured my display for 1024x768 I got a "Windows Protecion" error when I restared.
Researching online I found out that this error was due to my SciTech driver not liking what ever CPU I had (I had an Amd Athlon II).
I was able to solve the problem with the following command which spoofed the Virtual Machine into reporting a different cpu type to the SciTech driver. I ran this command before attaching the "ssd.iso" file and encountered no more issues.
VBoxManage modifyvm "Your Vm Name Here" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i5-3570"
I looked into setting up a VM specifically to play Catz/Dogz 2 from '97. This is the only tutorial that worked for me. Thank you SO MUCH!
So I'm revisiting a project I've been doing wanting to do and while installing the graphics for Windows 98, it seems to not like SDD after rebooting. It blue screen and locks up after rebooting itself again with a message: "Windows Protection Error, you need to restart your system." With this, I've followed to the T with your instructions. I also tried re-burning the sdd.exe again, no luck.
The Blue Screen says:
Windows
A fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0028:C008
F38C in VXD sddhelp(01) + 00013024. The current application will be terminated.
• Press any key to terminate the current application.
• Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. You will lose any unsaved information in all applications.
Press any key to continue _
I am working on part 2. If you have any topics that you would like included, please let me know.
Please show 2 issues: 1 - Show is it possible or not to play CD-Audio in Virtual box+Win98Se 2. How to manage problem with too much high rate of processor speed. It makes sound and video play choppy in a lot of games. Desperately need to decrease CPU cycles.
www.old-games.ru/game/download/5118.html Here is an example. 1997 FMV adventure game with audio-cd in it. You can successfully install and run the game, but you will experience absence of ambient music themes from CD
@@fredsakay994 RAIN maybe the solution you need for the high CPU cycles. CDAudio, I am not sure about but will look into it.
@@fredsakay994 OK, will have a look.
@@steve24822 yeah, I used Rain as you adviced in 2017 video. Can you please include rain in part 2?
Great tutorial!!! I can say hands down, the best on the net. I searched everywhere and none were as detailed or thorough as this... Thanks for this!
Now, I can play all the old awesome games from the 90s!!! Thanks again
Thank you!! It worked for me! I was receiving an error after instalation and all I had to do was to disable the nested pagination. Then it worked pretty well.
Can you help, have followed this tutorial but on start up I am getting The SHELL32.dll file is linked to the missing export SHLWAPI.dll:tFileAttributesA. I never get to a desktop!
do you have an amd cpu?
@@lolzlmaorofl yes Ryzen CPU. I found some people asking this same question on other forums, I found that if I turn off Hardware Virtualisation it does run. Not very well but it does finish the install and run
@@VisualEscapes469 Turning off 'Enable nested paging' worked for me on both my intel and amd cpus
I had to also switch paravirtualization interface to "Legacy" to get it to work properly
@@r8ndomtyp no problem!
Thanks, I've spent hours trying to install and it keeps giving me errors until I found this tutorial... 😁
Love the tutorial! I cept having errors and I ended up leaving the PS/2mouse, and had to disable (Nested paging) in System/Ecceleration. Booted up great!
thank you i tryd this with three diferent iso and canhing these setings worked
Wow this was an amazing tutorial! Thank you
when getting the better graphics around 17:00 the link to download the scitech display doctor v7.0 beta is differnt than the one in the video, along with downloading it i get a different .exe file, no idea what to do next
me too. It says it's for a newer windows version
Anyone resolved this yet??
@@ShotgunMistress nope, and people are saying their anti-virus stuff flagged the download.....sigh
Thank you soooo much for these amazing videos, they were perfect for a total beginner like me!
thank you so much :) i had to go hunting a little for the right file to scitech display doctor (since the link in the description leads to a version that does not work properly), but other than that everything went perfectly.
Lovely lovely video. Here's for the good ol' days, thank you!
I got an error message... it says "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shit down" after following everything exactly how it was explained including the iso download...
I've joined the club. AMD Ryzen 7. Ever solve it (and if so, how)?
I think something happened to your scitech display doctor link
the download does not contain the file for the program, but something my windows defender and anti-virus picked up.
You might want to update it
Brilliant, I followed your instructions exactly and I was able to get Windows 98 running perfectly on my virtual machine. Thank you very much!
I really want to thank you so much for this tutorial. Everything works great and this would not be possible without your help.
I hope he makes more videos. 😃
HELP. It gives me an error saying “The hardware virtualization is enabled in the acceleration section of the system page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the system”
I TURNED IT OFF AND IT STILL ISNT WORKINGGGG
Right! Just download virtualbox 6.0.16 and the bug won't happen
same problem
It needs to be enabled in your bios menu on your pc. I enabled mine and it works fine.
@@sceyna download virtualbox 6.0.16
Hey Nevets, whenever I launch up Win 98 SE, it tells me "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA." Help me please.
x2
It helped for me to deactivate the nested paging ( system settings --> acceleration) when modifying the V-Machine
@@nniicckkiiii92 I couldn't press the ok button tell me why I can't press it
@@EVJJockey Make sure to turn off the virtual machine.
@@nniicckkiiii92 this helped me, thank u so much
THANK YOU!!!! I spent hours trying to figure out why my mouse was not working. Found your video and it fixed it. Now I can play my old game LOL.
Thank you SO much for this video! Got it working perfecly!
Great news.
Great video, it helped me alot! Thank you.
Any ETA for part 2? Can't wait :)
I was hoping by now but work and family has made it impossible. Hopefully early next week.
When I am nearing completion on the Windows 98 install, I keep getting "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA." error message. I have tried to install multiple times following the directions but I keep running into this same problem. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
EDIT: From what I can tell, it is because of my AMD Ryzen processor
Have you found a solution yet? I'm getting that right now too - also with AMD Ryzen
Yes, I only have Intel processor computers and as a result have never been able to test this. You are probably right, nearly everyone that has a problem are running AMD processors. Unfortunately, I do not know the solution, however, there are some setting in the VM that might help with some eperimentation.
@@steve24822 the solution I've found for Ryzen is to goto system, acceleration, and disable nested paging. It might give a alight performance hit though for some people.
@@steve24822 The same problem is now happening for my i5 11th gen intel CPU ( from my experience )
same problem with i5 12600kf cpu
OMG, for an old bike teck this Dell optiplex hardware build has been fun. Now to get this installed is going to be a hair puller... Thank you , wish me luck. Bob.
THANK YOU! I’ve been trying to get windows 98 running for so long
A whole bunch of .dll files aren't installed and it won't let me do anything. So I give up
When trying to install Display Doctor I'm prompted with a dialog saying it "expects a newer version of Windows". Any Ideas?
Cheers
Like you said, Scitech Display Doctor v7.0 resolves the display resolution issue. However there is a side-effect where it always locks up Windows 98 during shut down. I might have to uninstall this utility and find a more stable alternative.
Amazing video, I finally got encarta running
Sci doc installer not working. Says "blabla.exe expects a newer version of windows."
When I try to run the sdd.iso after attaching it to the D drive of Windows 98 machine, it says "The D:\75661_VMDIJ.EXE file expects a newer version of Windows. Upgrade your Windows version." Since the Display Doctor file name is so much different now, I'm assuming this is a different file that is incompatible?
Same thing happened to me and one other guy i found in the comments. He said he found another file online that worked but I still haven't been able to find one
i found a website. archive.org/details/scitechdoctor try this archive(dot)org
Great guide, super easy and now I can play all my old games =)
Top lad! A great help - much appreciated.
I've noticed that sounds do not always play all the way through or are cut off. Is there a way to fix this?
You have to Install the AC97 Sound Driver to get the Sounds Fixed. For this, you'll have to go to Part 2 of this video.
@@carljiu8601 No! The AC97 Sound Driver only works in VirtualBox! not VMware nor PCem!
@slot4 You'll just have to figure out where to get one yourself.
@@official_gd_sadd_2024_yt Yeah, I know. What I meant is that trying to run Win98 in PCEM, VMWare or QEMU is even more of a pain compared to running it in VB.
PCEM is highly resource intensive, for one. So if you don't have a high spec "host PC", you're fucked.
@Zark Hussain There's plenty of people selling Windows 98 machines. www.ebay.com/b/Windows-98-PC-Desktops-All-In-One-Computers/179/bn_2781373
And if that fails, just do a google search like I did, in google search bar "windows 98 computer for sale" you'll get results. Not sure how ebay is a sketchy site. I've purchased multiple items from there and haven't run into a problem. There are people out there who aren't genuine, but you're going to have that no matter what.
So the decision becomes yours. Do you do the research, talk to people, find a person who is legit and make a purchase, or do you let your fears control you? I have a friend who won't even dare use his debit card online because of "hackers". Been using my debit cards online for 20 years now, the only time I had a problem, is when I used my debit card to pay for a meal at an airport. Someone on the staff skimmed my card, because later that night, it showed a $101 bill in the same state where I flew out of. If I became scared of my card being skimmed or whatever, I'd only ever use the card for cash withdraws. But I don't let fear control me and what I want to do in my life. And honestly, I've been looking for a while now to make a purchase on one of those Windows 98 computers from ebay.
Every time I start it, it tells me that an illegal operation has occurred and then gives me a blue screen. Anything I can do?
illegal wut?
Lemon Boy Yeah it saids illegal operation
@Svein Are Karlsen 512mb
Ok, to be honest, I thought I would need to sacrifice one of my old laptops just to install Windows 98 on it, and get rid of Windows 10. WELL, I saw this video, and I did everything and it worked!
Now, I am so happy that I don't have to actually buy the Windows 98 disc! All I've needed to do all along was use a virtual machine to emulate Windows 98.
Thanks, Nevets!
This is it! This is the video that works that actually mentions SDD. Thanks man.
help shell32 keeps on crashing and its a problem is there a way to fix this?
disable cpu virtualization
@@Zero11s where exactly do you disable this at , i been searching everywhere in the oracle virtual box
right when i get in to the welcome screen windows bombards me saying multiple programs have performed an illegal operation. Any help?
Same me. I dont know how to solve that problem
same
same
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1:45 Gotta love the Trailer Park Boys reference
Very useful video, thank you. The step where you get Scitech Display Doctor has changed a little since recording, you now download an installer exe which then downloads the SDD exe file for you. Seems a bit dodgy but hey ho the 90's internet was like that 😂
When I run windows 98 it says that it’s missing some dll file
me too
Try turning up ram
do you have an amd cpu?
I disabled nested paging on system>acceleration and it seemed to work okay.
Thank you for the great guide. I thought once you used j to install Windows, that might have solved the problem I was having, however I'm still running into problems.
Once I get to 13:50 in the video, when windows is booting up, I get errors. When the password screen opens the first error I see is "The shell32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL : tFileAttributesA. That error appears twice. Then Explorer performs an illegal operation and will be shut down. I tried slowing the CPU down in settings, but then on boot something called Runonce starting giving me errors.
Any ideas? Thanks
@@felicitydawson1143 Thanks very much for your suggestions. I gave up on this a while ago, but might re-try it with your ideas. Cheers
@@mintydog06 - can't quite see felicity's suggestions. Any further attempts to solve the SHELL32.DLL and SHLWAPI.DLL errors and crashes? And something about a Power dll too.
Almost a day at this so far, but no progress ..except for one success when I lowered the CPU to 40%, but the trouble's back.
Ever solve it?
@@useraccount8281Sorry I didn't solve it, and I gave up a few days later. I haven't looked at this since.
@@mintydog06
UPDATE
I had progress late yesterday.
Buried down in a 2021 comment it looks at though detran09 solved it!
SELECT PARAVIRTUALISATION TO LEGACY,
In Settings, System, Acceleration.
Probably disable Hardware Virtualisation too: leave 'Enable nested paging' unticked.
And do the other things, too.
This is in Sept, 2023 using VB7.0.10 r158379 (Qt5.15.2) on Windows 10 22H2.
Now to solve what's happening with 'Error loading powerprof.dll'. One of the library files missing 8-| - but nothing much seems affected.
No LAN, of course, and I haven't tried the 'net. Everything gets in via virtual floppies or CDs, apparently. Someone made a comment implying that ImgBurn could be bypassed via a CD icon in the Vbox menu that did the conversion of an exe to an iso itself. Not tried yet.
Good luck.
Standing by...@@useraccount8281
Cheers man from Sweden thanks for everything and the help gonna try and stream some old games now perfect calm guide
pewdiepie
Amazing tutorial, thank you a lot! I'm enjoying your awesome british accent, mate!
Ugh, i'm getting a "windows protection error"..
Everytime I restarted it took quite a long time to load, yet yours seemed to take seconds. Why is that?
Add a little more memory to your vm. If that does not work try adding more space. If that does not work I cant help you and im sorry.
He speed up the footage too, you can tell by the "_" flashing faster.
Almost used your last video glad I watched the updated one
I was able to play Logic Quest 3D today for the first time in over 25 years thanks to you
Ever tried Sail 95? A simulation of the 1995 America's Cup races. Very demanding, but very good.
These link for Doctor dont work .. use this contains all versions and serials :) archive.org/details/scitechdoctor
nice one, put this at the top
Thank you so much for the hint!
can anyone confirm this is legit? i've been burned before . . . .
REALLY GOOD VIDEO :) :) Thank you so much, gonna give this a go over Easter :)
you helped me to play the barbie games from my chilhood!!! thank you so much, i'm complete now
hey man i get a error after i boot to windows saying that a shell32.dll file is linked to missing export shlwapi.dll:tFileAttributrsA. What should i do to fix it??
Super video. I tried to install Win98 before some times, but I did not get it running; until now.. I have some of my 30 - 25 y.o. games already running. I needed some tweaking after I installed Win98 according to the video. What I do is I make clones of the VM all the time. I use the clone for tweaking settings or installing software. If it doesn't work, I delete the clone and make another one. If it works I install the software on my "master" VM.
The best of the best. Keep up the good work!!!
I'm using VirtualBox 6.1.40, and the mouse command is working perfectly fine for me.
Thank you Nevets. I have a VM of WinME on my Zorin OS but had difficulty with the Guest Additions addon. Since Win 98 & WinME are very similar this same process should work. BTW do you know how to enable joypads / usb controllers in VirtualBox? If not that's alright, very helpful vid 👍 -EDIT never mind, I see the vid after this you put gamepad in. Thank you soo much, subbed 🙂
Hit ISO IMAGE to download it). Attach ISO, Control panel -> System -> Video Adapter -> Properties -> Update Driver. Navigate to CD. Folder 032 worked at default video RAM. You may have to change it...
so awesome!! made it super easy for even me haha. Thank you so much, sir!
Would love to see a tutorial from you on how to install 98 on Vmware the right way!
So grateful for your work!
Thank you for the comment!
Hey, could anyone help? I get an arrow when im about to boot up windows 98 saying, Insufficient memory to initialize windows.
:(
Edit: I fixed it I realized I put too many megabytes so I went from 7500mb to 512mb, and it fixed the problem.
Omg thank you!!!
Thanks so much I've been troubleshooting for hours and then I found you thanks so much!!
after i do display doctor restart (drivers) it says protection error. how do i fix this?
Thank you for the comprehensive tutorial video
Thanks for a great video. My host is a Mac, so I'd be grateful if you could tell me what exactly should I type in the Terminal to sort out the mouse, if you have time.
HID failed to attach mouse driver (VERR_PDM_NO_ATTACHED_DRIVER).
@@fentonmsu You can't. It's as simple as that. You just have to start over and not do that command.
Everything went fine for the first half, but when I got to 13:30, in front of the login screen it gave me an error saying "The SHELL32.DLL file is linked to missing export SHLWAPI.DLL:tFileAttributesA.". Then after that it just gives me an error on Explorer.exe saying "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor"
you probably won't see this reply, but I had the same issue, after a bit of research it's because we're using Ryzen CPUs, because Ryzen has some trouble running 32 bit applications this is what causes that problem. In order to fix it you need to boot Windows 98 into safe mode, which will skip all processes that aren't required, such as SHLWAPI.DLL. To go into safe mode, the second your you selct boot from hard disk, press left control, this will put you in a prompt asking you how you want to boot windows. Select safe mode. From there you should boot into windows. Right click on the computer icon it File System, then Troubleshooting, then click on the tick next to where it says Disable all 32-bit protected mode disk drivers. This will disable the incompatible drivers. It will ask you to restart your computer, go ahead and restart it. You should be able to boot into windows normally now. Hope this helps :)
@@LarrythePig I did this but now I don't see the D drive. Is D drive 32-bit protected disk driver?
@@arskamusicman7444 using windows without any of the drivers prevents basically anything from working. Unfortunately this isn’t fixable without using something that emulates a CPU. What I’m currently doing is using the 64 bit version of Windows XP, because it can run most Windows 95 stuff, and run on Ryzen. The only problem is, it’s harder to find online. A good place to look would be archive.org, in their software section
Awesome video!!! Thank you so much for this!!!!
I had a hell of a time trying to instal W98 in Virtualbox on my Ryzen 5 system. Did it on my i5-3570K with zero problems went flawlessly. Now I'm going to copy the 98 virtual hard drive over to the Ryzen system, see if it'll run.
Very helpful dude thank you you learned me how to install windows 98 without forget it
For Unix the command would be:
VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0
After applying this the mouse is still not smooth like it is on the Linux Desktop. Any suggestions?
@@LanceMcGrew boilerplate reply:
Have you run this command from a Cmd box from the same account (don't change to an admin if you're not one) - from the Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ directory?:
VBoxManage.exe" setextradata "Windows 98SE" VBoxInternal/USB/HidMouse/0/Config/CoordShift 0
Elsewhere someone has said try removing the 0 at the end of the command.
Ever have any luck?
thanks man, im really into old systems so i have done this method like a million times and it works!
I can NOT get windows 98 to power because I’ve been trying to find the windows 98 disc image file to put in the optical slot but the image file doesn’t show up, somebody help me please.
@@MorganNye its in the video description first link
Give me a legal operation in the middle of the setup it says this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down if the problem persists contact the program vendor in the middle of the setup and then I gives me clothes and details it says all this random s*** if I type in details and then it says on the show 32.dll is linked to the missing export shall wapda Dlow filox your boots
And then the setup doesn't continue
I was watching your video because I'm trying to get this going, I need to run microsoft return of arcade. So I saw you do "mkdir win98". I got confused for a minute and then remembered, you don't need mkdir, just md. M for Make and d for directory, C:\>md win98 = Make Directory win98, same as mkdir win98, you're just shortening the mkdir part. Am a fluent DOS 6.22 user lol.
Great job Man!
it keeps saying this error message: "The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the System page although it is not supported by the host system. it should be disabled in order to start the virtual system." i cant click OK, even though i disabled it, please help!
Absolutely fantastic tutorial