Question(s) on a Windows 95 Image Instance ( 11:44)

I've seen this in DOSBox SVN already and I just tested on the latest version, DOSBox 0.74-2, with the same results. However, the ones that do run well do so without any noticeable performance penalty, or so it has been my experience.It has a bunch of garbled icons on the top and the mouse cursor is a black box, but otherwise works fine. Wine does not fall into that category since it is neither an emulator nor a form of virtualization it merely adds a Windows API to Linux but this has its limitations which means not every Windows app will run equally well. So whether or not either of the above two will give you enough performance for a smooth gaming experience is something you will have to try. Note, though, that any form of virtualization will come with a performance penalty. It also allows me to treat the whole Windows environment as a Linux application, which both sandboxes it and allows me to simply suspend or kill it should it misbehave. I'm running VirtualBox with Windows 10 in it (because I simply have to have support for the applications required by the people who pay for my meal ticket) and it works very well. This is a virtual machine that will let you run any OS in a completely virtualized environment, including Windows 95.

I'm not sure how far wine will get you, especially with games (which are notorious for using dirty tricks to increase performance on the Win9x line of OSes) but you have other options as well.įirst there is DOSbox, which gives you a virtualized DOS machine in which you can install Windows 95.Īn even more foolproof way is to install VirtualBox (available from the repos via ' sudo apt install virtualbox').

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