Cleaning up the place in readiness for a new year of work I stumbled on neated packed away system installation CD for past computers.. They where Windows 95 and Windows 98!\u00a0 What treasure – to me anyway.\u00a0 I had the best memories of fighting and occassionally winning the blue screen of death.<\/p>\n
Anyway since the computers have long since passed away and they where full version CDs I tried to install them on the Macbook via VMWare.\u00a0 So this post is all about running and installing Windows 95 and Windows 98 using VMWare Fusion2!<\/p>\n
What do you know?\u00a0 VMWare installs and runs Windows 95 as well as it ever did on on PC hardware…\u00a0 Must find any patches if they still exist.\u00a0 Mainly to get Winsock etc.. for modem and networking!<\/p>\n
Likewise I installed and successfully ran Windows 98 in VMWare2. The only problem I had with this install and that for Windows 95 was that VMware tools did not automatically install so I had to do it manually.\u00a0 I was fortunate that I have a bootable CD that loads MS-DOS – shock!<\/p>\n
There is only one more computer I recall having CDs for and that is for a Windows ME machine which is in the shed.<\/p>\n
I will then try and dig it out along with all the ‘ancient’ software and games I bought over the years and hopefully try them out on the Macbook…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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