Windows 98 2nd Edition @ Amazon Link:Limitations of this software are the following.1. You cannot mount a CD-ROM or optical drive. This may limit you from playing games that require a optical disk.2.

A DOSBox-based Windows 3.1 system. 64-bit Windows can run software written for Windows 3.x only through the use of an emulator such as DOSBox. This page provides a setup program that makes it easy to create a Windows 3.11 system that runs under DOSBox. Frontend for windows DOSShell: 1.4 Frontend for windows AmpShell: 1.1.2.0 Frontend in.NET DosPanel: 1.1 Frontend for windows Launchbox: 1.1 Frontend for windows Radnor: 1.0 Frontend for Mac OS X dosboxer: 1.0 Win,Linux,Mac OS X frontend Jamyda: 1.0 Frontend in java DOSBox Game Launcher.

I have never gotten a 3dfx game to work on this emulator.3. Running Windows 98 and running programs in it is slow.4. The mouse doesn't work on Windows 98 when you run the emulator on Windows 10.These are the limitations you have to know about before you install this.Install Windows98 on Dosbox Instructions1. Get the following files and programs.A.

Get Dosbox 0.74 @B. Get Dosbox Daum @C. Get Windows 98 bootdisk @orD. Get the drivers for Windows 98 @Get the following files.a. Directx 7.0ac. Directx 9.0cd.

Unofficial Service Packe. Voodoo (official + custom)E. Get a copy of Windows 982. Run Dosbox Daum3. Go into the dosbox.conf file.Change the following filesa. Run Dosbox Daum,Make a hard drive imageimgmake win98hd.img -t hd -size 4096 -nofs (This will create a hard drive image of 4 gbs)format 512,63,(heads),(cylinders)format: 512,63,255,5225. Put the Windows 98 bootdisk into the Dosbox Daum directory.The file name should be win98c.img6.

Open up the Dosbox Daum.conf fileScroll all the way to the bottom.Type the following.imgmount 0 win98c.img -t floppy -fs noneimgmount 2 win98hd.img -size 512,63,255,522 -t hdd -fs none7. Start the dosbox daum program.8. Boot to the Windows 98 bootdisk: boot -L A9. Go to fdisk: fdisk10. Partition the hard drive.Prompt: 1. Create Dos partition or Logical Dos Drive. Select 1Prompt: Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N).?

Select YPrompt: Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a Primary Dos Paritionand make the partition active (Y/N).? Format the hard drive: format c:12. Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?: Enter a name for the volume.Win98HD13.

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Go to 'Computer Management' - 'Disk Storage' - 'Disk Management'On the right side of the screen under 'More Actions'Select 'Attach VHD'Locate the Win98hd.img file in your dosbox daum directory. If you can't read the Win98hd.img file, you will have to change it to Win98hd.vhd.

You may have to do this on Windows 8 or 10.14. Copy all the Windows 98 CD and driver files into the attached hard drive.15. Go back to disk management and detach the hard drive.16. Open the Dosbox Daum program.17. Boot into the Windows 98 bootdisk: boot -L A18. Go to the Windows 98 CD directory:a. Setup /nm /is19.

Follow through the Windows 98 installation.20. When you get to installation type: Select custom.21.

If Windows 98 Installation restarts: Go to the Dosbox Daum.conf fileA. Delete this: imgmount 0 win98c.img -t floppy -fs noneB. Add this: boot -L CC. Run Dosbox Daum again.22. After Windows 98 installs.Put in the following drivers.A.

Unofficial Service Pack: sesp21a-en (This may or may not install depending on the version of Windows 98 you have. If you have Windows 98 SE, it will not install, because you already have this update built in.)Pros: Fast. If you can run applications without optical disk support, the applications run a lot faster than other emulators, like PCEM V11/V13.

You have S3 Virge video support, so you can run retro Windows 95 and Windows 98 games as long as it doesn't require CD/DVD support.Cons: Lack of hardware support, like no optical drive support, no ISO optical disk support, no 3dfx support in Windows 95 or 98. I could not get Voodoo 1 3dfx to work even when I installed the drivers.You can check out my other emulator videos at.

Java for macos 10.11. Java version(s): 8.0 Starting with Java 8 Update 25 (8u25), download and install Java 8 from java.com. A bug was fixed in 8u20 which had prevented the installation of prior releases of Java on Mac OS X 10.10.

Because Stars! was designed to run on Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, you may experience problems running it on later Windows versions or other operating systems.

In particular version 2.7 (the retail version) requires wavemix.dll, which can be found on the downloads article.

• 1Windows
• 3Linux(WINE)
• 8Portable VirtualBox

Windows

3.11

Stars! was designed for this OS. There are no issues using Stars! that I am aware of.

stars.ini

stars.ini is located in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too)

95/98/ME

wavemix.dll

Required by v2.7 only. To 'install' it, simply copy it into your C:Windows directory(or wherever you installed Windows.) Wavemix.dll under Windows 9x tends to cause Stars! to crash when other sounds, such as mp3s, are played at the same time Stars! is running. This is not an issue with later versions of Windows.

stars.ini

stars.ini is located in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too)

NT/2000/XP 32bit

wavemix.dll

Required by v2.7 only. To 'install' it, simply copy it into your C:Windows directory(or wherever you installed Windows.)

stars.ini

Because stars.ini resides in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too), Stars! needs to be run by a user with administrator rights for stars.ini to be created. Once created, granting write access will allow all normal Stars! functions. If you do not have and cannot borrow admin rights, Stars! will run just fine without stars.ini, but you will lose the benefits stars.ini provides i.e. you'll have to re-enter your serial every time Stars! is run, Stars will not remember your window layout, zip orders, saved queues or custom fonts.

General issues

1. Occasionally the cursor will disappear when over the map pane. Closing all instances of Stars! and restarting Stars! will fix this.
2. If Stars! will not start or causes an error, try using task manager(ctrl-shift-esc) and ending the ntvdm.exe,wowexec.exe and any stars.exe processes (or just the whole ntvdm.exe process tree).
3. If Stars! will not run due to an error with the 'win16 subsystem'. Reboot(restart) the computer.

XP 64bit

As with Vista 64bit and Windows 7, requires emulation to work. The simplest solutions are either Win3.x running in DOSBox (below) or MS Virtual PC.

Vista

32bit

Same general issues as NT/2000/XP. In addition, stars.ini is located at: [drive]:users[user]AppDataLocalVirtualStoreWindows and no longer requires administrator rights to be created/used.

64bit

As with XP 64bit and Windows 7, requires emulation to work. The simplest solutions are either Win3.x running in DOSBox (below) or MS Virtual PC.

Windows 7

Windows 7 explicitly does not support legacy 16bit applications, which includes Stars!. The best workaround solutions that have been found are to either:

1. Install and use XP Mode of the Windows Virtual PC or

   This solution does not work with Windows 7 Home as XP Mode requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate.

2. Use an complete OS emulator eg Windows Virtual PC[1], DOSBox (below) or VirtualBox

In addition, stars.ini is located at: [drive]:users[user]AppDataLocalVirtualStoreWindows.

Nibor verified that you can run Stars! on the desktop of a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installation using XP Mode of the Windows Virtual PC (which is free although the XP Mode is big download).[2]

Windows 8

LittleEddie posted that after going from Windows 7 Home 64-Bit to Windows 8 32-Bit Release Preview, with 16-bit mode enabled:

Stars! Version 2.7 crashes on the BattleBoard with 'Wavemix.dll' being the problem.

Stars! 2.6j has been running fine with no crashes so far.

NeilHoward points out this is a known issue, as described inhttp://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Patches_and_versions#2.6_vs_2.7

Additionally:

Stars! Notebook, AutoHost Client both run with no problems.

Xtreme Borders, will not start, 'Tabctl32.ocx' is a problem.

Android

Stars! will run on Android using the DOSBox setup below.

1. Install DosBox Turbo and DosBox Manager
2. Expand the archive somewhere on your SD card (or emulated storage)
   • You may need to download it to a PC, extract it and zip it for transfer - rar doesn't always expand properly on Android
3. Open DosBox Manager, add a new profile and 'Edit Config', 'DosBox Settings' (Advanced DosBox configuration), 'Autoexec' (Edit autoexec.bat) and put in the following:

   mount c: /storage/emulated/0/DOSBox/DOSBoxC

   c:

   windowswin /n c:starsstars.exe -x

   exit

   where /storage/emulated/0/DOSBox/DOSBoxC is where you have extracted the above rar

4. Add your Stars! serial and you're golden.

Linux(WINE)

Stars runs well under WINE.

• 'magic' entry for stars! files (at HWF)

Ubunutu or Debian

Steps to get Stars! running under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, all typed into a shell:

1. Install WINE

   sudo apt-get install wine

2. make stars executable

   chmod +x stars.exe

3. run

   ./stars.exe

Notes

• Sound is sometimes an issue in Wine configuration. It helps to have sound turned off, or use v2.6 rather than 2.7
• At least one user has noticed that the serial number gets prompted for very often under Wine. This is only a minor convenience, and is probably because Stars! keeps detecting what looks like hardware changes. If this is happening players are advised to be careful of triggering the Copy Protection Features i.e. delete your .x file before your final save and submit.

MacOS 9/X

Historically, Macintosh users haven't been able to play Stars! (except by having another machine ..). However, with the recent Macintosh hardware using the x86 CPU, and Wine being ported to MacOS X, this should now be possible, as Stars! runs well under Wine.

OS/2

No reported issues have been found.

DOSBox

Stars! runs just fine and is very playable under DOSBox.

• stars.ini is located in DOSBox's drivewindows directory

StarsWine (Windows)

StasWine was creatd by user raptor on the HWF.Stars! runs just fine and is very playable under Wine for Windows. It actually starts up faster than the DOSBox Stars! above.

• stars.ini is located in the otvdmwindows directory

Portable VirtualBox

Windows 98

A Portable VirtualBox installation of Win98 with Stars! on it. It's setup with a shared folder that can be accessed from the host operating system (tested with WinXP host system). The guest OS is setup for 1024x768 resolution and high color mode.

Runs on a flash drive, 282MB uncompressed.

• see #95/98/ME above for OS details/issues.

1. Unzip to the root dir of your flash drive.
2. Run Portable-VirtualBox.exe
   • When it tells you to install the VirtualBox Ethernet adapter, say Yes, as you'll need that to access the shared Stars folder.

   VirtualBox (the first time it runs) will connect to virtualbox.org and tell you that there is a newer version available. Do not get the newer version. You may want to turn off the VirtualBox update feature in the Options.

3. After the VirtualBox window comes up, Start the Win98 Virtual Machine.

   There will be a window telling you how to handle mouse/keyboard inside the virtual environment, and how to transfer control of the keyboard/mouse back to the host computer. VERY IMPORTANT to know. otherwise you'll find your mouse/keyboard locked inside the Win98 VM and can't move out of it.

4. At the login prompt, just press Enter (no password). After Windows 98 comes up, you'll see a text file on the desktop which contains instructions on how to access the shared Stars! folder from your host Windows operating system.

• Note that I did not find a way to have the shared folder AND guest Internet access at the same time. Also, the guest Win98 cannot access host system shared folders that I know of, only host access guest Win98 shared Stars! folder.

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