Can Wine emulate Windows 95?

Question

I have VirtualPool2 for Windows 95, but recently the CD drive has not been working on my Windows 95 machine. VPool only supports Windows 95, so I can't run it in Wine, it detects Wine as a Windows NT environment.

Is there some way to configure Wine to emulate Windows 95, or is there another emulator I can use?

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 30 '21 at 16:40

If you're running a 64-bit system, you'll need to create a 32-bit Wine prefix to mimic older versions of Windows (older than Windows XP).

Specify the architecture, and a new path to use for the prefix:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

Configure Wine for the application as needed. There will be more Windows versions listed. Then run:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix wine virus.exe

Or whatever it is that you need to run.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '12 at 22:29

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You can use winecfg to modify the default version of Windows emulated or to modify settings for specific executables.

answered Mar 07 '12 at 22:29

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 30 '21 at 16:38

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DOSBox has some support for Windows 95... And it is open source.

edited Dec 30 '21 at 16:38

Peter Mortensen

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answered Mar 07 '12 at 22:27

Canadian Luke

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Can Wine emulate Windows 95?

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