Windows 95 Dosbox Driver In Windows

FAT32 volumes are only supported if your installing Windows 95 OSR2 or later.

This guide will give a general description of installing Windows 95 in DOSBox-X, in addition to addressing some common issues.

This guide will not work with the Windows 95 diskette versions, as those use a special format (DMF) which is not supported by DOSBox-X.

Upgrade editions have additional requirements not covered by this guide.

If you want to stick with Windows 95, we recommend to use Windows 95 OSR2 or later.

Larger values may be possible with tweaks, but are not covered here.

You will probably want to change this afterwards in the Network settings to TCPIP, by adding the TCPIP protocol.

From the drop-down menu select CPU followed by Turbo (Fast Forward).

But if you decide to use this, be sure to disable Turbo mode whenever you need to enter data or make choices, as it can cause spurious keypresses to be registered causing undesirable effects.

It can also cause problems with double click with the mouse not working and audio will also not sound properly, so be sure to disable it when using Windows in DOSBox-X.

The pre-defined HDD templates can be seen by running IMGMAKE without arguments.

If you have NE2000 enabled in your DOSBox-X config file, you may want to check the Network adapter check box.

Your DOSBox-X CD-ROM and Sound Card will be detected regardless if you check its box or not.

While there is no real advantage to either feature, installing it does bring some new and updated libraries such as MSVCRT.DLL and COMCTL32.DLL that some programs need.

In addition to the below DOSBox-X command line utility, starting with DOSBox-X 0.83.9 it is possible to create harddisk images from the DOSBox-X menu.

This option allows for various common harddisk types to be created, for less common types you need to use the command line utility.

Only Windows 95 OSR2 or later supports FAT32, for older Windows 95 releases you can only use FAT16 up to 2GB.

This assumes that dosbox-x is in your path and win95.conf is in your current directory.

Windows 95 Dosbox Driver In Windows

Technically the FAT32 filesystem is capable of supporting partitions up to 2TB, but the generic IDE driver in Windows 95 cannot handle volumes greater than 32GB.

Larger partition sizes may be possible with 3rd party drivers, but are not covered here.

This is an example of a 16GB (16102416384 MB) disk, formatted as FAT32.

Other installation methods are possible than the one described below.

This method is however considered to be the quickest one with the least amount of steps.

If you get an error saying that This operation requires DOS version 7.10 or higher, than your trying to mount a FAT32 volume, and have not set your reported DOS version in your DOSBox-X config to 7.1.