Tutorial: Windows 95/98guestOSes (View topic) • ... http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&... 2.7. Restart the VM. 3. Video driver integration. By default Windows98 will run only in 640x480 resolution, 16-colors. Performance Note: VirtualBox is not optimized for 16-colors (4-bit) emulation. It works very slow this way. Having 32-bit True Color driver makes Win98 VMs run on VirtualBox *much* faster. If you want True color or high resolution, you need to download special drivers. 3.1. bearwindows driver http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm 8 of 12 18/11/10 12:26
Aug 9, 2007 - If anyone finds this topic and is wondering, use Scitech Display Doctor 7. You can find a download of the Beta Trial Version using google. Nov 4, 2014 - SciTech Display Doctor v5.3a: SciTech Display Doctor provides high performance VBE 2.0 device support for playing the latest games.
Tutorial: Windows 95/98guestOSes (View topic) • ... http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&... NOTE: You must install 'Universal version', as 'VirtualBox' version is known to have problems. 3.2. SciTech Display Doctor The second option is to get the SciTech Display Doctor version 7 beta driver - (contributed by Richard_S) http://majorgeeks.com/download382.html The driver is a high quality commercial grade video driver (even includes some software emulated Open GL 3D support), and it does include an exe installer program. Despite having an installer, the SciTech Display Doctor is a little tricky to get going. After the program launches, you have to find the little round radio button link to click to 'enable' the new driver (otherwise you still have VGA). Even then, you can't select any higher resolution modes until you ditch the 'default monitor' and select one of the 'Super VGA' types. After fiddling around with the above changes and rebooting several times you should be able to select 800x600 or 1024x768 (or higher) resolutions with 32 bit color depth. (setting 32 bit color mode optimizes the interface with Virtualbox and really speeds things up) Another issue with the Scitech Driver is that it was released years ago as 'trialware' with a 21 day trial limitation, and the company has since gone out of business. It has been reported here on this forum that before going defunct, Scitech released the software for 'free use' and published registration codes on their FTP server. Sadly that server is long gone and all the links are dead. Since the software was made available before this happened, I don't think I am stepping out of line by saying that you can Google around and find the registration information. There are a lot of codes that DON'T work so it can be a bit discouraging, but the proper registration information IS out there so keep trying and you will find it. (Hint: Try Googling something like SciTech Display Doctor 7 CSCKnight ) CD-key here: http://www.arcadenea.com.ar/content/blogcategory/1/65/ 4. Network Easiest thing, is to setup VirtualBox to NAT, and AMD PCnet-II network chip. It will be auto-detected by Win 9x. 9 of 12 18/11/10 12:26
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I installed Windows ME as a guest OS on a virtual machine (two different software: Microsoft VM 2007 & VMWare ver. 10.0) hosted by a 64-bit Windows 7 (Intel Core i5, 8.0 GiB RAM). Problem is that Windows ME uses Generic 16 colors VGA as my display adapter and it will not satisfy my requirement, because this game needs a 3D 16bit VGA. I tried to install random VGAs through WinME's device manager. It presented a long list of brands and model and I picked some of them. It did not accept any.
I am completey aware that it is impossible to have WinME to recognize my AMD ATI HD 5450 graphic card. Is there any way to fool WinME (or virtual machine?!) to use one of branded VGAs that are defined in Windows ME's database?
Vynylyn
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For full colour support you will need a better display driver. A driver I had some luck with in the past is SciTech Dispay Doctor, I know it works in a Windows 98 VM and would expect it to work in Me but cannot say for certain.
I believe the driver is essentially abandonware but am not entirely sure, hence I will look further before posting a direct link here.
From https://scitechdd.wordpress.com/:
SciTech Display Doctor is a generic VESA display driver for Windows 9x. From today’s perspective its main feature is that it allows you to run Windows 95 and Windows 98 in VirtualBox at a nice resolution and color depth (e.g., 1600x1200x32 bit). When SciTech closed down they released free registration numbers for their then-current software, including Display Doctor v5.3a, v6.53 and v6.7, but didn’t provide one for v7.0 beta (presumably because it hadn’t been finished). Unfortunately, those versions of Display Doctor don’t seem to work with modern releases of VirtualBox; v7.0 beta, on the other hand, does. This website serves to provide a download of SciTech Display Doctor 7 beta since it can now be considered abandonware. Given that SciTech has released everything else they had for free, I don’t think they’d mind.
Registration
Name: CSCKnight
Serial: 0B5E-12B4-A8A4-0B
I've found a working download link at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BycgkMZbeQOzWXE5NUhnWGRycVE/edit?pli=1 but as with all random file hosting locations this is at your own risk.
There is a complete Windows98 Vmware guide which includes download links for the SciTech driver at https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9918#p39022
Mokubai♦Mokubai
Don't install random video drivers in a VM, this will only make things worse. If 'VM 2007' means Virtual PC 2007, all you need to do is install the VPC Additions (included with VPC 2007) in Windows ME VM.Similarly, with VMware 10 (workstation, I assume) you again just need to install VMware's tools in Windows ME, also included with the program.
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