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From: Henrik Carlqvist on 28 Dec 2009 17:41
Peter Chant <peteRE(a)MpeteOzilla.Vco.ukE> wrote:
> I think on my 286 with win 3.1 it I booted to dos and typed "win" at the
> command prompt to boot windows. I beleive that was the fairly normal way of
> doing things until 95 came along.

For those who prefered it that way it was in win9x possible to edit
c:\msdos.sys and set BootGUI=0.

But now we are getting offtopic...

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From: Peter Christy on 30 Dec 2009 06:24
Thanks to everyone for your replies. I'm not too worried about speed as the
original ran on a basic 486, and wasn't exactly quick! My problem is getting
it to run at all!

I've got '98 to run under VirtualBox, but I cannot install the application!
It crashes when I try!

Under Qemu, I can't get 98 to load at all!

I haven't tried VMware, as Slackware wasn't on the "supported hosts" list. A
further complication is that I'm running Slack64, and the FAQs suggest that
you need a load of 32-bit libraries to run VMware with a 32 bit guest
system!

The application in question is Windows Electronic Workbench - a very good
circuit simulation program. Unfortunately, mine is an old copy from the days
of Win 3.1, but it does what I need! Newer versions have all sorts of
whistles and bells that I *don't* need, and the cost of recent versions is
ridiculous for a "hobby" (ie non-commercial) application.

I almost have it working under Wine, but the graphics are all corrupted
making it useless. And so far, my efforts with Virtual Machines - which I
thought would be my saviour - have proven even more problematic!

<sigh!>

I guess I'm just going to have to keep my ancient K6-2 machine running with
its equally ancient Win98 install for a few more years yet....!

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From: Joost Kremers on 30 Dec 2009 06:38
Peter Christy wrote:
> I guess I'm just going to have to keep my ancient K6-2 machine running with
> its equally ancient Win98 install for a few more years yet....!

or find a modern program that is open source and does what you want. a quick
google search suggests there are various options.


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From: jim dorey on 30 Dec 2009 06:46
Peter Christy wrote:

> I almost have it working under Wine, but the graphics are all corrupted
> making it useless. And so far, my efforts with Virtual Machines - which I
> thought would be my saviour - have proven even more problematic!

try the wine configuratoratrix program, you probably can set the version
compatibility to use, differently.
From: John F. Morse on 30 Dec 2009 11:07
Peter Christy wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your replies. I'm not too worried about speed as the
> original ran on a basic 486, and wasn't exactly quick! My problem is getting
> it to run at all!
>
> I've got '98 to run under VirtualBox, but I cannot install the application!
> It crashes when I try!
>
> Under Qemu, I can't get 98 to load at all!
>


If it is any help at all, I have Win 98SE loaded under QEMU. Your
problem might be the older Win 98 ("first edition").

It was originally installed on a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS system, just as an
experiment, or a learning lesson on QEMU. I actually wanted to try Win
95 since it was smaller, but couldn't quickly find that CD, so I grabbed
the Win 98SE CD.

This Ubuntu 6.06 LTS PC was later upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS earlier
this year, and the QEMU still runs Win 98SE fine.

I'm sorry but I have no recollection of what I did to originally install
it back around 2006. It's on a nearby PC, so if you need me to look up
something, I could easily fire it up and get back to you.


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