Win98 Guest Graphics driver or Adapter

[whatsupdoc]

Hi - I wanted to run my old MS flight simulator 98, So I thought using a VB Guest with Win 98SE would be good.
But - the Flight simulator needs 256 colours and when I install Win98 second edition the VGA only offers 2 or 16 colours and a fixed screen resolution.

Is there any way to "upgrade the video card" in a virtual machine?
or get it to offer some more options?

So far I tried just changing the adapter to SVGA under the Windows settings - that crashed.

I'm running Virtual box 5.010 on Win 7 64 bit machine.

Thanks

[mpack]

VirtualBox emulates a VESA compatible graphics card, so yes, you can install a VESA graphics driver. Please see the "Howtos and Tutorials" section. I prefer the BearWindows Universal driver, as the Display Doctor one is trialware and you can never register it now.

[dlharper]

Note that the original URL for downloading the Bearwindows driver will no longer work. It is currently available from http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/.

[mpack]

Note that the original URL for downloading the Bearwindows driver will no longer work. It is currently available from http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/.

Thanks, but I'm pretty sure I changed the tutorials in mid year to correct the broken BearWindows links (edit: yes I did).

[dlharper]

Some of the links have indeed been changed (possibly most of them) but some still point to the old address. I noticed the one in Section 10 of viewtopic.php?f=28&t=59559. I have not been through all of the tutorials in detail, so this may be the only one left, as far as I know.

[mpack]

I see, thanks. I don't really care for that tutorial - too much sprawling detail packed into one post - so I've never done more than skim content. Link fixed now.