Windows 9x is NOT officially supported under DOSBox. *STABILITY OF WINDOWS 9x GUEST IN DOSBOX IS HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON VIDEO DRIVERS. INSTALL THE ATTACHED DRIVERS FOR S3 CARD. **WINDOWS 9X WILL FREEZE OR CRASH OCCASIONALLY. LEARN TO LOVE IT OR FIX IT YOURSELF.

ONLY USE CPUTYPE=PENTIUM_SLOW in DOSBOX.CONF. USE NO OTHER PARAMETERS WINDOWS ME DOES NOT WORK IN DOSBOX. USE VMWARE VIRTUALPC ETC. Downloads Needed: Latest DOSBox version (DOSBox 0.74 as of this guide) or DOSBox SVN (7-23-2011 as of this guide) HAL9000 Megabuild v6 Gulikoza or Yhkwong DOSBox build (for Glide support) Winimage ImDisk or equivalent WinPcap (for builds of DOSBox with NE2000 support) GENERIC WINDOWS 9x INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS *WITH WINDOWS 95B+ YOU WILL EXPERIENCE DIALOG ERRORS DURING INSTALL.

JUST CONTINUE THE INSTALL SHORT INSTRUCTIONS 1. Download and install DOSBox 0.74 2.

Download 2GBFreeDOS.zip attached to this post. Unzip the contents to the DOSBox directory. Add this line to the [autoexec] section in dosbox.conf imgmount 2 2gbfreedos.img -t hdd -fs none -size 512, 4.

Booting windows. Now you will boot windows 95. You must wait and you dont have to install it. BLACK SCREEN WILL APPEAR YOU MUST WAIT While exiting windows turn off like normal PC touch is bad but you must learn how to use it donate button is below my avatar. And this is it bye till my next update. This tutorial is on how to put Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 on you PS3 using a little application called Dosbox. If you do not know what this is you.

Open the 2GBfreedos.img with Winimage or IMDISK. Copy the 9x installation files to the '9xinst' directory. Execute DOSBox and boot the image with the command 'boot -l c' 6.

Go to the 9xinst directory on the image and type in 'setup /NM /IS' to start the install. When setup is done with the first part of setup it will close DOSBox. (This is normal) 8. Start DOSBox again and run 'boot -l c'. When setup is done it will go straight to the Windows desktop and you are done installing! Shut down DOSBox and make a backup of the image so you don't have to reinstall again.

LONG INSTRUCTIONS 1. Download and install DOSBox 0.74 (Overwrite DOSBox 0.74 files with SVN if you want to use the SVN) 2. Download HAL9000 MegaBuild v6 and install: 3. Execute HAL9000 MegaBuild v6. Create a Hard Drive image by typing 'Imgmake test.img -t hd_2gig -nofs -bat' inside of DOSBox. (Refer to the documentation for other options for imgmake) This command will create 'test.img' in the same directory as HAL9000 MegaBuild that is 2gb in size. Make a backup copy of the image so you don't have to bother recreating it again if you wish.

(Use NTFS compression on it or compress it with a compression program to save space if needed). Move 'test.img' and 'test.bat' to the DOSBox 0.74 directory (if you are not going to use HAL9000's DOSBox Build to run the OS) 6. Next you will next need a floppy image of MS-DOS. I'm not sure that it matters which version, as long as it's MSDOS 5.00+ then you should be good to go.

If you don't already have an image then use Winimage to create one or you can download an image from the internet. Name the floppy image something small like 'dos622.ima'.

Copy the floppy image to the DOSBox directory. Copy the Windows 9x CD to a folder in the DosBox directory.

Put it in a directory with a short name like '9xinst'. Open DosBox.conf and make sure that the [Autoexec] section looks like this: (use the values from 'test.bat' for -size) imgmount 0 dos622.ima -t floppy -fs none imgmount 2 test.img -t hdd -fs none -size 512,63,xx,xxxx (This will automatically mount the image whenever you launch DosBox) 10.

Execute DOSBox and verify that it mounted the images correctly. If it didn't then you have done something wrong.

(Either bad images or you still have it open in another program) 11. Type in 'Boot -l a' to boot your floppy image. Go into FDISK and partition your HD. Close DOSBox 13. Open DOSBox and execute 'Boot -l a'. Run 'format c: /s' to format the HD and to make it bootable. Exit DOSBox 16.

REM the below line in the [autoexec] section in dosbox.conf since it is no longer necessary: imgmount 0 dos622.ima -t floppy -fs none 17. Open 'test.img' with Winimage and copy the 9x folder you copied to your hard drive to the image. (or you could mount the image with DOSBox and copy the files over but DOSBox may become unresponsive so you may think it froze.using a program like Winimage you will see a progress bar or similar so you know that it's actually working) 18.

Execute DosBox and type in 'Boot -l c' to boot your HD image. Go to the directory on the image where you copied Windows and type in 'setup /is' to install Windows. When setup is done copying Windows files it will close DOSBox.

(This is normal) 21. Start DOSBox and run the command 'boot -l c' again to resume setup. When setup is done it will go straight to the Windows desktop and you are done installing! Shut down DOSBox and make a backup of the image so you don't have to reinstall again.

INSTALLATION ERRORS DOSBox 0.74 and 7-23-2011 SVN Windows 98SE Will throw up error during 'Updating System Settings'. 'An error or exception occurred while calling the function 'DllRegisterServer' in 'C: Windows system mshtmled.dll'. After that you will receive a ton of error dialogs. Keep hitting close. Using core=Pentium_slow will reduce most of these errors but not all. Windows 95C May experience an error or two during the 'Control Panel - Startmenu, Windows Help, etc screen. Windows 95 95A Only versions of Windows to complete the installation process without errors.

May experience an error on first logging into the desktop. POST INSTALL VIDEO AFTER INSTALL IMMEDIATELY BOOT INTO SAFE MODE AND INSTALL THE S3 VIDEO DRIVERS. For some Windows versions you may have video corruption when you boot to the desktop.

This is due to the video driver that Windows 9x is trying to use (it's not compatible with the video card that DOSBox emulates) Change the color depth to 16 colors until you can install a better graphics driver. (This way you'll at least be able to navigate the interface). When installing the S3 drivers use any model from the list. The driver does not care. Other video drivers to try: Use the 'Universal' drivers.

AUDIO The audio card emulated by DosBox is a SoundBlaster 16. Windows 95C detects the sound card just fine but the included Windows audio drivers are old dated 8-24-1996.

Attached are SB16 drivers from 3-20-1997 (v4.35.21) and they seem to work fine. The last version of DirectX to include drivers for devices was Direct 6. After installing DirectX 6 the SB16 may not work anymore.

DirectX 6 may update the audio drivers to v4. Which is incompatible with DOSBox.

SO DO NOT INSTALL DirectX 6 AND IF YOU DO REINSTALL THE AUDIO DRIVER CD EMULATION Windows 9x under DOSBox does not support CD emulation so you need to use a program like Daemon Tools to emulate a CD-ROM. Use Daemon Tools 3.47. (Requires Windows Installer v2. Download Gratis Masteran Burung Pleci. 0) TCP/IP SUPPORT Verify that WinPCap is installed on the host. Verify that DOSBox.conf is configured correctly INTERNAL D3D GLIDE SUPPORT For Glide/D3D support download yhkwong DOSBox Build: 1. Unzip yhkwong DOSBox Build. Copy your Windows.img to the same directory.

Add 'imgmount 2 x.img -t hdd -fs none -size 512,63,xx,xx to the [autoexec] section of DOSBox.conf 4. Change glide=true to glide=emu in dosbox.conf 5. Download attached Voodoo 1 drivers. Add Voodoo driver to image. Extract driver to C: TEMP 9.

Run 'Add New Hardware' Wizard and then reboot. (It should install 'PCI bus' which is needed for the Voodoo card) 10.

Go into Device Manager and install the Voodoo driver. The above caused Windows to freeze and graphics corruption with Windows 95 and 95a.

Works fine with 98SE. EXTERNAL GLIDE SUPPORT 1.

Use a glide enabled build (Gulikoza or yhkwong) 2. Verify glide=true in dosbox.conf 3. Download glide2x.zip from here: 4. Copy glide2x.dll to where your game is located in the DOSBox image.

Modify autoexec.bat on the image. Add set glide=0x600. (No voodoo drivers required) *Only some glide and MiniGL games supported.

**Change glide2x.dll on host windows to any other wrapper if you want. List of Glide Wrappers: dgVoodoo Nglide PSVoodoo OpenGlide Zeckensack JOYSTICK Joystick needs to be set manually Windows wants to use address 200-207, but it needs to be 201-201. Go to Device Manager->Joystick Switch from 'Basic Configuration 1' to 'Basic Configuration 0' in 'Resources' in device properties for joystick. WINDOWS UPDATES AND ADDONS Windows 95 Install Windows 95 SP1 Install DirectX 8.0 Install DCOM95 NOTES HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 9x USING FREEDOS ALTERNATE WAY TO COPY FILES TO A.IMG USING DOSBOX (Not recommended due to DOSBox appearing to hang and being very slow at copying the files) Close DOSBox Edit imgmount like in DOSBox.conf to look like this: imgmount d x.img -t hdd -size 512,63,x,x Open DOSBox Type in 'Mount c.'

To mount your host DOSBox directory. Switch to D: Type in 'MD '9xinst'. Switch to 'C:' and go to where you copied your Windows files. Do a 'Copy *.* D: 9xinst' to copy your Windows files to the HD image. S3 driver is really for PCI video card but driver does not require it. 'Voodoo' output in DOSBox console does not mean the game is using Glide. Could be either D3D or Glide.

If you see 'Glide:Activated' in DOSBox console then game uses Glide. Only HAL9000 DOSBox build can autodetect image parameters. When not using his build you MUST specify the size parameters. As of DOSBox 0.74 the emulated video card in DOSBox is a S3 Trio64 PCI NOT a Trio64V+ which are not driver compatible. The drivers included with Windows will appear to work but will cause issues. -- Need verification on model of emulated video card. MSDOS.SYS modification 2GB image template uses 512, The first always has to be 512 (should be omitted imo), the second can't be more than 63, the third is limited to 255 and the 4th to 1023.

These are the old BIOS limits DOSBox also implements. To get disks larger than 500MB the number of heads has to be increased. DOSBOX ISSUES WITH GUEST OS WINDOWS ME INSTALLATION IN DOSBOX May receive error during install about disk issue. Quit to DOS and run scandisk. Install will eventually freeze.

USING COPIED OVER WINDOWS ME INSTALL 1. Install Windows ME in Vmware 2. Mount vmdk in Host OS 3.

Copy ALL files on the vmdk to the.img file 4. Mount Windows ME bootable floppy and.img in DOSBox 5. Run SYS C: 6. Freezes DOSBox in normal and safe mode.

Tested with 0.74, 7-23-2011 SVN, HAL9000 Megabuild 6, yhkwong 7-5-2011. ERRORS DXDIAG will crash DOSBox. If Windows constantly crashes causing Scandisk to always run and you want to disable Scandisk then read the following. (THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED) Windows 95 Download TweakUI for Windows 95.

Install TweakUI Open TweakUI Go to 'Boot' Tab. Select 'Autorun Scandisk'. Select 'Never' Windows 98+ Open 'MSCONFIG', Click the Advanced button.

Select 'Disable Scandisk after bad shutdown' If you receive the following error message then either your IMGMOUNT settings or your image are incorrect: 'Message SU0013 Setup cannot create files on your startup drive and cannot setup Windows 98.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attached are 4 2GB images created using IMGMAKE from HAL9000 Megabuild (Thanks HAL!). These images are provided so that you do not need to bother with creating, partitioning, formatting and making bootable your own image. 2GBPartitioned = 2GB.IMG parititioned with MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK into one Primary.

2GBFreeDOS = 2GB.img partitioned and formated FAT16 with FreeDOS system files. 2GBFAT16NO-OS.zip = 2GB.img partitoned and formated FAT16. 2GBunpartitioned = 2GB.img not paritioned and not formated.

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Look into providing smaller images for crazy mobile phone users. Windows ME reporting as working in yhkwong DOSBox build as of 8-25-2011 by Robertmo 1. Install Windows ME in Vmware Virtual PC 2. Copy over files to DOSBox.img 3. Run Windows ME in Safe mode.

Remove all devices from Device manager. Reboot and run in normal mode.

Mount image files on host.

First, you’ll need to create a folder on your computer. This folder will contain the contents of the “C:” drive you’ll provide to DOSBox. Don’t use your actual C: drive on Windows for this. Make a folder like “C: dos”, for example. Create a folder inside the “C: dos” folder — for example, “C: dos INSTALL” — and copy all the files from your Windows 3.1 floppy disks to that folder. Windows 3.1 is still under Microsoft copyright, and can’t legally be downloaded from the web, although many websites do offer it for download and Microsoft no longer offers it for sale.

You can use Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 — whichever you have available. Next, install and launch. DOSBox supports standard VGA graphics. However, it also supports some other types of graphics.

By default, it’s set up to emulate S3 Graphics. For best graphics support, you’ll want to install the S3 graphics drivers and configure Windows 3.1 to use a higher resolution and more colors. You can download the S3 video driver from. Unzip the.zip file to a folder inside your DOSBox C: drive folder. For example, it would make sense to put these files in the “C: dos s3” folder. In Windows 3.1, double-click the Main program folder and double-click the “Windows Setup” icon.

Click the “Options” menu in the Windows Setup window and select “Change System Settings.” Click the “Display” box, scroll down to the bottom, and select “Other display (Requires disk from OEM).” Type the path to the S3 drivers. For example, if you unzipped them to the C: dos s3 folder, you’d type “C: S3” here.

Choose your preferred resolution and colors. We recommend choosing 800×600 with 256 colors. This is the highest resolution and number of colors many games will support. Click OK several times. Windows will install the drivers and you’ll be prompted to restart it.

After you do, you’ll see your new graphical settings in effect. If Windows won’t work properly after you select a display mode, run the following command after using the “cd windows” command to enter the Windows directory: setup.exe You’ll then be able to select a different video mode. Install Sound Drivers There’s one more driver issue to take care of. Windows 3.1 doesn’t include sound drivers that will work completely with the SoundBlaster sound hardware DOSBox is emulating. You’ll want to install those, too.

As with the S3 video driver, you can download the Sound Blaster 16 Creative Audio Driver from. Unzip the downloaded archive into a folder like c: dos sb Exit Windows 3.1 by clicking “File” and selecting “Exit Windows” if it’s open in DOSBox. Run the following commands to launch the Sound Blaster 16 driver installer, assuming you unzipped the folder to c: dos sb cd c: sb install.exe Press Enter to install the drivers, select Full Installation, and press Enter again. By default, you’ll see the line: “Microsoft Windows 3.1 path: None”.

Select “Microsoft Windows 3.1 path” with the arrow keys and press Enter. Enter the default path, which is C: WINDOWS, and press Enter.

Press Enter again to continue. On the next screen, select the “Interrupt setting: 5” value and press Enter. It’s set to 5 by default, but DOSBox’s default is 7. Select “7” for the Interrupt Setting and press Enter.

You can then press Enter to continue. Allow the installation process to finish and “reboot” your DOS system by closing DOSBox and reopening it. Launch Windows 3.1 again and you’ll have full sound support, including support for MIDI audio. You should hear a sound as soon as you launch Windows 3.1 again.

Install and Run Games and Other Applications To actually use an application, download it (or copy it from old disks) and place it in a folder inside your c: dos folder. For example, you might want to place it in c: dos gamename.

You can then create a shortcut to the game’s.exe file by clicking File >New and browsing to its.exe file. Double-click that shortcut to launch the game. The game should just work, launching within the DOSBox window as if it were running on Windows 3.1 — after all, it is. You don’t have to go through this entire setup process again in the future, either.

Just take that c: dos folder — or whatever else you named it — and back it up. Move it to another computer and you can use it after installing DOSBox. Because we haven’t configured DOSBox at all and have just used its default settings, you won’t even have to tweak your DOSBox settings before it will work.