Windows 98SE

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 98 as a guest operating system in Bochs.

Windows 98SE 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=corei7_haswell_4770
cpu: count=1, ips=55000000, 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