Windows 95

Contributed by Benjamin David Lunt

Please read the message regarding software licenses in the Section called Third Party Software Licensing and Temporary Files in the Chapter called Introduction to Bochs before you install Windows 95 as a guest operating system in Bochs.

Windows 95 has been reported to install from the CD-ROM, and run inside Bochs. Here are a few settings that seem to work well when running on a Windows10 host, running at 3.0Ghz.

romimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/BIOS-bochs-latest
cpu: model=broadwell_ult
cpu: count=1, ips=50000000, reset_on_triple_fault=1, ignore_bad_msrs=1
cpu: cpuid_limit_winnt=0
clock: sync=realtime, time0=local
memory: guest=512, host=512
vgaromimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-cirrus.bin
vga: extension=cirrus, update_freq=5
pci: enabled=1, chipset=i440fx, slot1=cirrus