Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

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Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

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DOS does not work correctly currently under Virtualbox. It's kind of insane since it boots windows 98 and win98 is theoretically supposed to be running atop of dos.
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Re: Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

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Could you specify what's the specific problem that you're facing? Generic statements like "full DOS support" aren't that helpful without any details...

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Re: Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

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DOS mode simply doesn't boot it simple hangs when attempting to restart in msdos mode. So its hard to report when the system just freezes when it tries to restart in msdos mode.

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Re: Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

Post by mpack »

Just to add to the confusion, this now seems to be a cross post of viewtopic.php?f=2&t=96818&p=469953.

The confusing part is that the OP mentions DOS before mentioning Windows, when in fact he appears now to be referring to the "MS-DOS mode" feature inside Windows 9x, or else the "Restart in MS-DOS mode" feature which even most people of sufficient age will barely remember was a shutdown option 25 years ago.

p.s. I just tested the "Restart in MS-DOS mode" shutdown option in my own Win98SE VM, running under VirtualBox 6.1.2, and though it was slow to work (about 8 seconds perhaps), it did work. Not surprising really that it's slow, since it's switching to a legacy virtual 16bit mode from inside a 32bit VM running on a 64bit host. More amazing that it works at all really.
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Re: Need for full DOS support when emulating Win9x OS's like 95/98/ME

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My Win98SE reboots fine as well..
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