#FAKE WINDOWS 95 EMULATOR DRIVER#

#FAKE WINDOWS 95 EMULATOR DRIVER#

Wine could do it, until wine dropped windows 95 and 98 support for portability on 64 bits, but wine is a adaptation of the whole API, not a emulator running the actual OS so to make the OS running on a emulator use the same trick would probably require other driver or IDE emulation trickery. Dosbox has other problems with img files like not supporting > 2gb or lack of support long filename support when it would be appropriate (used in some windows 3.1/95 games) - besides a hostile stance to running windows 95/98 games - so it's not the best option anyway. Consequentially if you want to use windows 95 with dosbox you have to let it fdisk a blank raw image and let it handle everything, which is also one of the reasons that win95 running in dosbox will not see local directories.Ī windows 95/98 emulator that 'lied' to the OS about the underlying filesystem and allowed it and games to run on the local filesystem like dosbox can for windows 3.11 on FAT16 would open up the golden years of 1995-2001 to painless emulation (or at least, less-pain). However, with windows 95 on, microsoft started making the filesystem interfaces and structures more complex to the point that every new drive needs to be fdisked in the os (after being mounted 'raw' in dosbox) before being usable. The major advantage that dosbox has besides its configurable config files is that it mounts local filesystems and dos/win3.1 games just work.

This means without a *.img file or other such 'filesystem in a file'.

Fake windows 95 emulator