My nostalgia for old computer software/equipment put a bug in my head to get the old Win98 screensavers.  Specifically, “Mystery.”  I was greatly disappointed by the fact that Win98 native didn’t support more than 16 colors and a 640×480 resolution (I was further disppointed by the fact that Win7 can’t run the old screensavers!  Ugh!). […]

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So my mint-condition copy of Windows 98SE arrived today and after work I got it setup in VirtualBox.  Much easier than Windows 95 (and much easier than the way many folks on the net did it).  I googled it quickly to see what people ran into but figure screw it, why I don’t I just […]

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Update 2-1-2021:  I’ve added a few caveats to the instructions below while needing to run through this process again with VirtualBox version 6.1.16 It’s been much longer between my posts than I’d like.  We had a re-org at work a little while back and now I’m up for another position that I’m waiting to hear […]

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