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Problems running Win98 games on Android 14
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The thing with win9x on dosbox pure is that it makes a hard drive image running the os. Then you have to mount the image of the game to install it. This means you probably have to make a different image with the os and the game installed auto running during startup for every seperate game.
I don't think there's an easy and disk space efficient way to do this unfortunately.
As for installing windows 98, you have to create a hard disk image with imgmake first. Then you have to mount the boot disk as floppy, and the windows cd as cd rom drive. Only then can you install windows 98. You don't need a boot floppy only if you have the OEM Full edition.
That sucks. Thank you for your help
Thanks for your help. Just wanted to tell you I ended up with that full edition and got Roller Coaster Tycoon working! It is absolutely atrocious without a mouse but it does work lol. I remembered the graphics much differently than they actually are ๐
I can imagine it's not the best without a mouse. But for Roller Coaster you could also use the android build of OpenRCT2. It might work a little better.
Nice! Thanks so much!
There's also a small plugin I made which might help slightly with touch screen controls lol
https://github.com/Die4Ever/openrct2-touch-plugin/releases/latest
I wrote it a long time ago before realizing that plugins weren't supported on Android at the time, but they are now!
This is great! I'm going to try it