How to install Windows 95 (RTM) in 86Box

[@mgtroyas]

Having Windows 9x running on an open source emulator with this ease was unbelievable some years ago.

[@kylehill3643]

My roms are completely different then his and I don't get AWARD anything showning up.

[@DanielTheEpicGuy]

before restarting in 9:25 Make Sure To Remove The Boot Disk If you Don't It Will Show How The Same Setup To Remove The Boot Disk Go To Media Go To Where You Put The Boot Disk And Click Eject

[@andiarrohnds5163]

everything here is glorious

[@greenknight9000]

2:58 I'm trapped in a loop here. I press CTRL+ALT+DEL but when the machine restarts, rather than going to the Setup, it displays the same message again Edit: I was a dumbass and didn't use the RTM iso lmao

[@Rigoba89]

86Box is an awesome project. I feel nostalgic waves in last 25 minutes. When will 86Box Emulator be available for Linux?

[@codetorex]

It already works in Linux. I just grabbed AppImage file from GitHub releases, then "chmod +x" it and run. You will need to clone roms repository next to AppImage though. Hope it helps :)

[@rstabbs71]

First of all, great video! I was able to install Win 98 using your tutorial on that. For some reason, my version of 86box gets stuck after saving the settings in the bios. I have the proper boot disk mounted, as well as the RTM iso file for Win 95. But it just sits there (over an hour now) with the cursor blinking. Not sure what step I missed.

[@burntoutelectronics]

Meanwhile, I've forced the RTM release to run on my 386SX at 25MHz, it does have the recommended minimum of 8MB of RAM however!

[@OxygenOxy]

My Teac CD thing failed to install, and i was booted to an ms dos terminal saying there was an error, ive been trying for an hour but it does not boot. VirtualBox does not accept the boot floppy, and im stuck.

[@MrBeam112]

Do you plan on making future videos? Windows NT4 and Slackware linux are difficult to install.

[@pixeldyne_mac]

Just did a fresh install with OSR25 (Win95 C) with this setup - flawless.

[@Billeyjd]

That's good because OSR 1 doesn't even support FAT32 hard drives.

[@Shadowmaster625]

If I have an old win95 machine and I setup my 86box to match that hardware, can I actually boot and run off of an image of my old win95 drive?

[@Slawek361]

"Aborting Instalation no drives found" after trying install Win 95.

[@ExperiencersInternational]

This is better than doing it on VirtualBox but I have a few questions for you guys. 1) Does the VM actually show other devices on our desktop? (for example VirtualBox only shows VBOXSERVER) 2) Will you ever make a Guest Additions system for this? 3) Do you need Virtualization enabled in the UEFI to use virtual machines (for example on VirtualBox I don't need it up to 32-bit Windows 7, Windows 8 requires the virtualization switched on)?

[@suketti_jp]

There is no need for Guest Additions. All the hardware used are based off existing hardware and their drivers work in the emulated machines.

[@cortexcortexified8623]

No, no and no. But note that you need all the drivers for the hardware you choose, i.e, Graphics Card and Sound Card. For GPU, use S3/Virge DX for win9x, and maybe Voodoo if you game on it. For Sound Card, SB16/AWE32 for win9x and SB-PCI-128 for win2k and above. Don't think of running Vista or better on this btw.

[@ExperiencersInternational]

@@cortexcortexified8623 I've already got Vista and 7 virtual machines in Virtualbox.

[@cortexcortexified8623]

@@ExperiencersInternational I was referring to PCem/86Box. It's painful to get 7 and vista, etc working on these softwares.

[@hamwasntavailable]

@@cortexcortexified8623 “painful” So you’re not saying it’s impossible but rather extremely hard? Then I shall try to get it working for no reason! Lol

[@fra4455]

Great👍

[@andiarrohnds5163]

yes... god yes... glorious windows 95

[@agentagony4945]

RTM OEM crashes during setup, saying an unexpected error occured, and that the only option was to close. Any help? Win95 RTM provided by winworld. Boot Disk from here. Build 6354 (4.3)

[@agentagony4945]

Resolved by using Safe Recovery, but a weird crash regardless.

[@sears_mechaniker_tyler]

No Matter what i did i couldn't install windows 95 with the machine used in this video and other machines and i couldn't install various other os, your software just doesn't work for me

[@oldchannel-p6f]

how to change bios i see the button at the bottom but it wont wotk

[@juanmiguel7180]

You also didn't show the installation of the network driver. So those 3 (display, sound, and network) are configured in 86Box, but no need to install them in WIN95?

[@86Box]

I may not have mentioned it in the video, but Windows 95 had those drivers built-in.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

You can tell this is outdated because I see options that no longer exist. For example, you can no longer select the graphics option used in the video. Edit: Disregard this comment, it would seem that the names in the graphics options they selected have been swapped.

[@86Box]

A lot can happen in three years. An updated 95 OSR 2.5 guide is in the works.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@86Box Alright. :)

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@86Box Now the CD isn't being detected.

[@86Box]

@@JaredtheRabbit Do you mean the ISO itself or the CD-ROM drive? Because some Windows 95 RTM ISOs, such as the one we used, are bootable, but others we've tried in the past are not.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@86Box What was the CD you used? I used one from WinWorld, but luckily managed to get it installed, with some hiccups.

[@Dynio]

Maybe it's time for Windows NT 3.51?

[@juanmiguel7180]

I didn't get the part where you installed the Diamond Stealth and Sound Blaster drivers.

[@pankoza2]

They are built-in in windows 95

[@VerlorenMaster]

To install Windows 95 RTM, you need a hard disk drive with at least 500 MB of space.

[@Caleb-fv5fp]

50 MB

[@GarreTTTurncoaT]

I love when I'm going to follow along with a tutorial and the very first step isn't possible because it's not an option to select...

[@86Box]

Please be more specific about your issue, as the version of 86Box used in this video is three years out of date.

[@TheWolvesGang]

Some of the roms and options are not showing up for me. Can you link me to your version and roms please?

[@kylehill3643]

I'd like that too! 🛸🙃😲🔫

[@bandanaglitchy]

ok how do i open the machene configuration

[@donovanelliott9060]

Where can i get an iso for internet explorer 5.5?

[@gm376]

in winworldpc

[@dudejo]

Are you booting from floppy or CD-ROM?

[@ffivguy1990]

I'm using 3.71 and I can't find Socket 7-V3

[@emironurlular]

choose socket 7 single voltage

[@jadsi]

22:17 music?

[@jadsi]

nevermind, found it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZqUnGWuis2sr5Y

[@awii.neocities]

Hey could you give a link to the music used? I've tried to search for it but i can't find it :P

[@86Box]

It's a slowed down SceneSat Radio rip from eons ago. Unsure where those are today.

[@awii.neocities]

@@86Box Yeah i checked SceneSat, they didn't have it sadly.

[@timmyinnits2295]

i cant's boot to cdrom

[@dimitrismantratzis]

Nice! Is there any way to start VMs automatically in fullscreen from the manager?

[@86Box]

Unfortunately, no.

[@anthonyclements7124]

@@86Box. I have a question.. can 86box perfectly emulates memorex vis and modular windows combined? You have to find out.. link for two pages. Wiki:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Video_Information_System Redump:archive.org/details/MemorexVisualInformationSystem-Redump.org2019-05-27

[@anthonyclements7124]

@@86Box how about making a tutorial on how to install windows 2000 And Office 2003 on 86box. Including sp1 sp2 sp3 and sp4 please?

[@automatedinsanity]

@@86Box would you ever add proprietary cd rom support i.e. before atapi cd rom interfaces like the sound blaster pro’s cd rom interface

[@jadsi]

@@anthonyclements7124 ok calm down plz

[@MacCentrisSimpleSencilla]

Thanks for the video. Dude, I need a drive bigger than 1023MB, is it possible or Windows can't work with it? Is there a way please? PS the machine rom you're using here is nowhere to be found. An equivalent is asking to "update dmi information" so I will have to choose another machine and it's turning out to be complicated as all the BIOSes are different. UPDATE: I could only get it working through the manager, I had to set up another machine... I used a video with the walkthrough for Windows 98, worked perfectly (and with 3GB harddrive).

[@pankoza]

windows 95 RTM supports hard drives up to 2 GB (2048 MB)

[@jadsi]

can you do a tutorial for windows 98 se?

[@86Box]

Windows 98 Second Edition should install virtually similarly to Windows 95. Some ISOs are bootable, which this machine should instantly recognize and boot from. I would recommend raising the CPU speed to at least 100 MHz and using a newer graphics card such as the S3 ViRGE/DX, however. A tutorial video for Windows 98 SE would not be a bad idea... soon(TM)

[@jadsi]

@@86Box Thanks! I can't wait...

[@kylehill3643]

@@86Box Your roms are different t hen mine. Please show us how you got yours and you'll won't look like an ass if you do!

[@huzar3981]

@@86Box First of all, I'm grateful for Your program. I always liked retro computing but installing and using older Windows on Virtualbox, VMware etc was always a hassle. Even if it was installed, it was for show only, now it's possible. If I can give any reccomendation for video, I would love to see instructions how to configure MSCDEX and CD drive in MS-DOS, Windows 3.x and create bootable floppy for Windows 95 with cd support. There are lot of sites with these but for beginners they are not understandable. I wasn't able to make any. Best regards.

[@86Box]

@@huzar3981 Thank you for the kind words and your suggestion - it's in the plans!

[@AnAltWindows7User]

You forgot plus! 95

[@andresz1606]

And the Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 software CD-ROM.

[@msdosm4nfred]

@@andresz1606 calm down. this video is from 2020, there wasn't any emulation of the AWE64 sound card inside.

[@alexandermarkov300]

Judging by the sound, the laggy 86Box cannot emulate a Pentium in real time.

[@RR_______]

a better PC can

[@MichaelBleck-t8f]

we need an updated tutorial, that PC is not on the list

[@DDXofficial]

it's been renamed to the P/I-P55TP4XE. a new tutorial is in the works for OSR 2.5.

[@kylehill3643]

Hi. The roms list is completley different now so your tutorial is rendered useless!

[@86Box]

86Box and its ROM set have seen various changes over the past few months, which is normal as development continues. Do keep in mind that we have focused our attention on NIGHTLY builds, which can change a lot of features or not many at all. Just because several things got moved in the configuration doesn't render the tutorial "useless" as you claim it has. If you need any assistance with finding where things are located, feel free to join our Discord server and we'll be more than happy to assist you.

[@Solaar_Punk]

No this video is useless because he won't know which to select. This video would be better if it was 5 seconds of scrolling text saying 'use our discord'.

[@windows97pleasesubscribemy19]

Hello. Can unban me to discord server?

[@gaelotrosjuegos2017]

Dont make spam!