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Message: [QUOTE="OpenVMS, post: 185267, member: 98480"] 86box is great for this type of thing. Can even emulate Voodoo 3D hardware, various sound cards, etc. I keep a Windows 98 VM on 86box just for playing older PC games. It's a lot, lot, lot of fun and works really great! It's a shame, because there's a lot of PC games that were really fun from the 2000s but are waaay harder to play than say, the Dreamcast from the same era. It is only really since I got into 86box that it feels easy to play those games today. One kind of note though, most emulators you just get the BIOS, if any, and fire up a ROM. On 86box, you'll either have to find an image made by some kind soul OR get ready for installing Windows 98, getting the drivers for the virtual hardware, etc. Depending if you had experience with this back in the day or not, you may or may not have trouble. It took me an hour or two to get a Windows 98 VM set up as I like it and then I saved a copy of that disk if I ever need to go back to it. I had tracked down an ISO of "Chessmaster 9000" for Windows and got that running. I had forgotten what a great implementation of chess that is. Also, having fun with some old 3D programs like Bryce. It all just works! [/QUOTE]

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