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JHRobotics / vmdisp9x

Virtual Display driver for Windows 95/98/Me.
MIT License
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How the heck do you even install it? #9

Open gdandsm64fan123 opened 1 month ago

gdandsm64fan123 commented 1 month ago

listen man, i aint no nerd so i dont know shit about installing drivers. Im using VirtualBox 7.4 which should be compatible, can anyone give me a tutorial or smth?

FranceBB commented 1 month ago

Download the .ima from the release page: https://github.com/JHRobotics/vmdisp9x/releases The .ima is an image of a Floppy Disk where you have all the installation files. You need to attach it to your Virtualbox VM by clicking "+" in Add Floppy Drive so that it's gonna be like this: image

Then boot into Windows 98, go to My Computer image

Right click, properties image

go to Device Properties and double click on the VBox VGA PCI Adapter image

select "update drivers" (or install drivers in your case as it would be yellow with a ? as it hasn't been installed yet) image

click next image

click next image

select "floppy disk drives" with the tickbox image

Windows will find the driver in the virtual floppy disk, click next once again, let it do its thing and then reboot image

After rebooting, you're gonna be able to go to the desktop, right click on properties and in the settings you're gonna see all the high resolutions, including FULL HD 1920x1080 image

Alternatively, if you just want an exe that installs everything in one way you can use his SoftGPU package https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu and just use the installation wizard by running the exe and hitting next, next, finish, after selecting virtualbox and clicking done. The download for that is here https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu/releases and you need to attach the iso file to the VM in a similar way but instead of a virtual floppy you're gonna have a virtual CD.

FranceBB commented 1 month ago

p.s none of us is a nerd, trust me, but we were there when Windows98 was around and we had to insert Floppy Disks, so it doesn't make much difference to insert a virtual floppy disk image instead ;)