[dannyisaphantom]

Oh neat! Hope this is okay to share here re: the context; but I uploaded a cache of files to spin up a Windows 95 VM in virtualbox to Archive a bit ago. Was messing around with it for a few weeks to try and get an old game my boyfriend wanted to play working that ultimately couldn't be achieved.

https://archive.org/details/win-95-vm

The .vhd is immediately bootable; just mess with the settings a bit. The .vdi requires you to patch with the FIX95CPU.iso.

Either way, documentation from the sources I used are included in the upload.

[Bluecobra]

There’s also a Windows 95 vm written in Electron that is a self contained .exe file that just works, with no mucking around.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17827797

[cbhl]

Have you seen the Win95-in-dosbox-in-the-browser item in the archive?

If not, it's here:

https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

[perfect-blue]

What is going on in those comments, wow.

[veilrap]

I've also had a great time installing Windows 95 into a DOSBox instance. Might be even easier than a full fledged VM.

[stavros]

What game was it? Why couldn't you play it? Those usually play fine.

[dannyisaphantom]

DK: Oz, The Magical Adventure

It wasn't so much an issue with the system but the actual game itself. The director (.dxr) files are all corrupted sadly. Tried some 'hacks' to maybe even get a peak/convert the files with very old installs of Macromedia and some extra software but came up short. The game would load - but when you're taken to the startup screen, the assets kick back an error of '..file is not director file...' and crashes :(

It's on a todo, hopefully one day I can get it going haha :')