Win98SE on Windows Virtual PC

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Alloneword

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I'm still running 7 x64 U and have installed Windows Virtual PC and have an XP image running fine, but i wondered if there was a way to get Win98SE image running in this Virtual PC and also a link to a Win98SE image would be handy as well i have found many links for the image but none from a site i trust.


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98 runs fine as a virtual PC
 

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I still have my legally purchased 98SE CD, and have it installed on a virtual machine running under Virtual PC 2007 on a Win7x64 host. As samuria said, it works just fine.

Alloneword said:
and also a link to a Win98SE image would be handy as well i have found many links for the image but none from a site i trust.
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Win98SE hasn't been released to the public domain, so posting it online wouldn't be legal. Are you thinking there is a trustworthy piracy site? (Wouldn't that be an oxymoron?)
 

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dg1261 said:
I still have my legally purchased 98SE CD, and have it installed on a virtual machine running under Virtual PC 2007 on a Win7x64 host. As samuria said, it works just fine.



Win98SE hasn't been released to the public domain, so posting it online wouldn't be legal. Are you thinking there is a trustworthy piracy site? (Wouldn't that be an oxymoron?)
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Given MS is giving away XP as a virtual image, i presumed 98 would not be a problem, the only one who mentioned piracy was you, i'm now looking at fleabay for an old version, i trust that is ok, i could see no point in buying and old disc if it would not work.


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Home Brew
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Windows 7 64bit Ultimate (Retail)
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Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 @ 3Ghz
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Asus P5E3 Premium
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ATI 1GB 4350 (Passive)
Sound Card
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
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BenQ G2420HDBL (Digital) [24" LCD]
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
Floppy Drive (Still come in handy sometimes)
WDC WD6400AAKS-22A7B0 (596 GB)
WDC WD7501AALS-00J7B0 (698 GB)
WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0 (931 GB)
WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0 (931 GB)
WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0 (931 GB)
SAMSUNG HD204UI (2000 GB)
SAMSUNG HD204UI (
PSU
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular
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Antec SX-1030
Cooling
Can't remember
Keyboard
Airkey Wireless
Mouse
MS Intellimouse Explorer 2.0
Internet Speed
about 5 mbits
The license for that XP image is included in the cost of Win 7 Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise. No other versions of Windows are legally entitled to use that XP license.

I have personally purchased copies of Win 98 and 95 from sellers on Ebay. I made sure I bought from a seller with a good reputation and ensured that the disk also came with a license key.
 

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Built my first computer (8Mhz 8088cpu, 640K RAM, 20MB HDD, 2 360K floppy drives) in 1985 and have been building them for myself, relatives and friends ever since.
This site has what they call abandonware - has 98

WinWorld: Library


they even have Win 3.1
 

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