WEBVTT 00:00:00.299 --> 00:00:08.040 there are thousands of games even entire genres that can only be played 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:14.160 on an old Windows 98 PC like this one but it sucks it's big it's loud it's 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:19.500 heavy unless I spend extra money the most reliable way to transfer files to 00:00:16.139 --> 00:00:21.240 it is to burn a Flippin CDR but it's my 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:24.560 only hope if I want to share my favorite childhood games with my kids 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:35.399 wait what is this Windows 98 running on a modern computer 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:37.260 the hardware even all works what sorcery 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:41.160 is this the kind that gives me confidence you are not going to be able 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:45.960 to navigate away while I tell you about our sponsor pulseway pulseway is a 00:00:44.219 --> 00:00:50.340 mobile first remote monitoring and management tool that's built with msps 00:00:47.940 --> 00:00:54.360 and it 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check this out 00:01:44.780 --> 00:01:51.299 it's a whole working PC BIOS there's not 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:55.560 much we can do in here I mean even things we take for granted 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:59.939 now like overclocking we're not done in firmware in those days it would have 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:05.219 been like conductive pencil mods uh replacing oscillators there were jumpers 00:02:03.119 --> 00:02:09.060 jumpers you had moving jumpers around on the motherboard now we're in Windows I 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:12.720 don't remember process Explorer this was an add-on or something right uh yeah so 00:02:10.979 --> 00:02:17.400 this is assist internals app we actually have a video on that basically this 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:21.000 gives us a much better task manager experience there's something that I 00:02:19.260 --> 00:02:24.239 would always do oh yeah yeah you have to go in here and you have to uncheck this 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:27.660 you got to be like oh do you have a proxy yeah it would make things really 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:31.080 slow every single time you launched Internet Explorer speaking of which 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:36.720 obviously Internet Explorer is not going to work but we are on the network are we 00:02:35.099 --> 00:02:42.959 go to entire network all right here we go no what no we do not have an IP how 00:02:40.379 --> 00:02:47.400 is it that Windows networking tools have actually gotten worse I know right the 00:02:45.660 --> 00:02:51.080 fact that this just has a release and renew button right there 00:02:52.519 --> 00:02:58.560 hey look at that here we go and check it 00:02:56.160 --> 00:03:04.140 out all those all those familiar faces no way wait can I just 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:08.340 okay well it makes sense that Yvonne's um workstation would not just let people 00:03:06.420 --> 00:03:14.099 browse it do I have no I don't have any shared anything okay what about a Nas 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.480 though well the thing about wow 00:03:14.099 --> 00:03:20.459 I was going to say the thing about Windows 98 is that it will use the login 00:03:17.940 --> 00:03:24.599 that you chose at the beginning for all of your logins for Network places so it 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:29.760 probably wouldn't have worked but this enables Anonymous access so it totally 00:03:27.180 --> 00:03:36.920 works can I just no not enough free disk space it's only 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:36.920 an 8 gig disk there you go okay 00:03:38.580 --> 00:03:46.500 I wasn't expecting that Windows 98's file sharing is ancient most things 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:51.780 don't support it I remember it being terrible now this is with the unofficial 00:03:49.019 --> 00:03:56.580 Service Pack three yeah so it has like up-to-date stuff 00:03:53.700 --> 00:04:00.180 but it's still a pain to get set up and it doesn't work with like Windows 10 00:03:57.900 --> 00:04:03.120 Windows 11. yeah that's a Linux server that I was pulling files off of yeah 00:04:01.620 --> 00:04:07.500 because that was a Plex server or whatever it was on my RAID yeah as I 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:13.319 mentioned obviously Internet Explorer is completely unsupported on the modern web 00:04:09.500 --> 00:04:15.299 but we can fire up Opera which is still 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:20.579 available for Windows 98 or like this is a version of Opera that only really runs 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:22.560 as a consequence of installing a package 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:26.940 called kernel X which kind of emulates Windows 2000 so we're kind of multiple 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:32.120 levels deep here I see that being said not everything will work 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:36.780 https generally doesn't like to work there are other browsers you can try but 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:42.300 you can also use the old web the oldnet.com okay 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:42.300 1998 00:04:42.419 --> 00:04:48.259 how have I never seen this before this is amazing 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.259 there it is 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:55.620 pc97.com baby netlink computer Inc your 00:04:52.740 --> 00:05:00.600 One-Stop computer and internet Store the store that I used to work at ncix.com 00:04:57.780 --> 00:05:05.040 this was their original domain click here for more options 00:05:02.220 --> 00:05:10.259 PC filter that was my job much later the software that enables all 00:05:07.620 --> 00:05:14.639 of this PCM was originally written by Sarah Walker as an open source project 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:20.340 that as we saw when we were booting it up uses the original BIOS ROMs for old 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:23.280 motherboards and gpus to emulate the 00:05:20.340 --> 00:05:28.259 hardware in its entirety and there is a shocking amount of Hardware supported 00:05:24.900 --> 00:05:30.479 everything from the original IBM PC and 00:05:28.259 --> 00:05:34.800 plasma display luggables all the way up to the Pentium 2 with pretty much 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:39.539 everything in between and with support for a wide variety of both sound and 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:44.280 video devices some of which are really obscure I think what's most impressive 00:05:41.940 --> 00:05:48.720 though is how easy it is to set up the user interface is so intuitive that with 00:05:46.259 --> 00:05:52.139 no guidance whatsoever I managed to stumble my way through it in about 15 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:56.699 minutes after which I had my kids playing The Magic School Bus explores 00:05:53.820 --> 00:06:00.720 the solar system like it was 1994. I mean it helps a little bit that I used 00:05:58.380 --> 00:06:05.759 Windows 98 back in the day and I wrote down explicit instructions for how to 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:07.740 use it on my underwear which by the way 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:13.560 is now available on ltdstore.com with new patterns now because it emulates the 00:06:11.100 --> 00:06:18.360 original hardware and not just the environment like dosbox does you can run 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:23.100 basically any software from the time period including Windows and even 00:06:20.520 --> 00:06:28.919 alternative operating systems like os2 and BOS which has been not impossible to 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.639 do up until now unless you used very old virtual machine software that provided 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:37.080 virtual devices that were compatible with these old os's and even then you're 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:44.039 not running that old software on a brand new machine which clearly isn't a 00:06:39.960 --> 00:06:46.500 problem here on a 12900k Anthony has set 00:06:44.039 --> 00:06:52.440 up a period accurate Windows 98 SE virtual machine complete with Pentium 2 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:55.680 CPU 3dfx Voodoo 3 GPU and a sound card 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:57.960 that can do eax for the full win 98 00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:03.240 experience that's a really big deal because a lot of games in the Windows 98 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:06.600 era not only used 3D video acceleration 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:08.039 but also used audio acceleration to 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:11.639 enhance the overall immersiveness something that Windows Vista dropped 00:07:10.020 --> 00:07:15.479 support for entirely it's time to play some games Anthony you 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:19.500 didn't tell me we were going to go off script because I have to play Road Rash 00:07:17.400 --> 00:07:23.639 I had to install all these games to test them and make sure that they all work 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:27.780 you know and as a little surprise I guess I left them installed I'm so 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:32.460 excited I love road rash excited 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:34.740 let's go oh what you guys are looking at 00:07:32.460 --> 00:07:39.720 right now is how you put a disc into the drive it just uses a virtual CD-ROM so 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:43.139 as long as you have those isos on your host computer 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:52.380 you can pop them in and race DirectX 3.0 a oh man even just 00:07:49.020 --> 00:07:54.479 this intro screen is so good the arcade 00:07:52.380 --> 00:07:58.740 version no character selection no bike shop no unnecessary gossip just pick a 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:03.479 race and go man remember when you could actually just play a racing game yep 00:08:01.380 --> 00:08:08.160 okay could you change the camera angle I forget no this is it are you sure this 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:12.180 is how the game looks I'm pretty sure oh yeah because this is me this is me right 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:16.620 yeah yeah I think maybe the uh The Knockout side to side it's either side 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:19.500 that was the old gamer stance it wasn't was it was the arrow keys you had 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:25.139 everything clustered around the arrow keys I'm gonna kick this cop 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:27.419 they'll never catch me copper 00:08:25.139 --> 00:08:30.020 get out of here oh no no 00:08:33.419 --> 00:08:38.820 no yeah you don't want to be on the sidewalk the sidewalks have real bad 00:08:36.479 --> 00:08:44.219 time oh yeah there you go oh not good not good you got Road Rash oh 00:08:42.300 --> 00:08:49.820 you have to hike back to your bike yeah you do old games unforgiving oh no the 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:49.820 cop got me yep 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:57.779 I love these segments so much no like 00:08:54.779 --> 00:08:59.220 a thing guys playing old games might not 00:08:57.779 --> 00:09:04.620 impress you much so what right you're running a PC game 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:06.000 on a PC want a cookie and I can see why 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:10.860 a lot of people would take this sort of thing for granted odds are that a lot of 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:15.180 old Windows software you try to run will work on newer versions of Windows but 00:09:12.839 --> 00:09:18.060 it's not a given it's thanks to an incredible amount of software 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:22.980 engineering that goes into making Windows backwards compatible one of my 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:28.320 favorite stories comes from the 90s when Microsoft discovered a bug in Sim City 00:09:25.620 --> 00:09:33.120 that caused it to crash on Windows 95. their solution was to actually build a 00:09:30.779 --> 00:09:37.380 mechanism to detect if SimCity was running and then temporarily alter 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:42.180 Windows memory management to work around it isn't that incredible uh let's try 00:09:39.779 --> 00:09:47.339 Mech Warrior three sure that's hardware accelerated hold on yeah you need the CD 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:52.200 these are images from my own CD collection by the way I don't have them 00:09:49.260 --> 00:09:55.560 all here but I own all these games now I never played this game back in the day 00:09:53.339 --> 00:09:59.959 do you want to take the wheel uh sure I don't remember much about this game so 00:09:57.180 --> 00:10:05.339 that's cool I do know the mouse works holy crap I didn't have a good computer 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:10.019 back then and I did not know that games looked this good back then what's 00:10:07.260 --> 00:10:13.740 impressive about this is that this is 3D accelerated how do I help people wrap 00:10:12.060 --> 00:10:18.240 their heads around how cool it is that we were able to play a game on a voodoo 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:23.880 3. well it no longer exists and like Voodoo Hardware only existed for a short 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:30.240 period of time anyway so like a lot of games that supported Voodoo Hardware 00:10:25.980 --> 00:10:32.580 also supported like opengl or direct 3D 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:37.860 so oh he took out my leg immediately whoa dudes with the snipe he just got 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:42.420 wrecked holy crap Voodoo 3D accelerators were the best back in the day NVIDIA had 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:45.980 only just kind of started off the ground and they weren't doing super great with 00:10:44.339 --> 00:10:50.519 their original nv1 ATI was still kind of trying to find 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:55.680 their footing but Voodoo only existed for a short period of time yeah and so 00:10:53.220 --> 00:11:00.540 the fact that you can run a voodoo card and it's it's fully accelerated 00:10:58.500 --> 00:11:03.899 with all the food all the features like bilinear filtering which was a big thing 00:11:02.339 --> 00:11:08.040 back in the day otherwise you had the chunky pixels that kind of warped around 00:11:05.339 --> 00:11:12.420 yeah that was huge and the fact that you can do this 00:11:09.839 --> 00:11:18.720 is massive this is being emulated on the CPU there's no GPU in this system now I 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:24.480 want to make this clear some older games will work without jumping through PCM 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:29.700 Hoops you can use Community patches or Community projects like DG Voodoo to 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:34.440 convert old apis like Glide to modern ones but that can be its own entire 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:37.980 Rabbit Hole unless a studio like night dive has taken the time to restore it I 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:43.260 wouldn't expect night dive to do anything with this but it's worth showing you guys just because this is an 00:11:41.579 --> 00:11:47.940 entire genre of games that I remember very fondly that simply doesn't exist 00:11:45.959 --> 00:11:52.320 anymore these Interactive Learning experiences and multimedia storybooks 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:56.160 were pretty much how a couple of my younger siblings learned to read there's 00:11:54.300 --> 00:11:59.899 just no profit in it anymore speaking of things that became 00:11:57.660 --> 00:12:06.000 unprofitable to the point of Extinction encyclopedias I mean it sounds like a 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:11.279 wild idea now but what if I didn't want my kids on the internet there is no 00:12:08.760 --> 00:12:15.600 reason you couldn't using Carter 98 also mind maze is lit unlike Wikipedia which 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:20.459 you're definitely not encouraged to use these days at school we were encouraged 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:24.839 and in fact expected to use incarna or like Compton's or whatever usually in 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:30.779 Carta just look stuff up and you know do our book reports or reports on selectomy 00:12:28.579 --> 00:12:35.160 tonsillectomies sure what should we learn about find 00:12:33.839 --> 00:12:39.120 um foxes smallest member of the dog family let's 00:12:36.839 --> 00:12:45.000 go here's some pictures it's so cool like to call PCM a success would be 00:12:41.760 --> 00:12:46.920 selling it well short but it's worth 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:50.339 noting that there are other ways to do pretty much everything I've shown you so 00:12:48.540 --> 00:12:54.779 far and I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention them probably the least 00:12:52.380 --> 00:12:59.820 painful way to play older games is in a browser many abandonware MS-DOS games 00:12:57.420 --> 00:13:04.260 are a five second Google search away and require no configuration whatsoever to 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:08.220 get running mixed up Mother Goose was another of my childhood favorites and 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:12.959 runs perfectly on play classic.games which aside from its obnoxious ads seems 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:16.620 to work pretty well and those of you who were paying close attention probably 00:13:14.339 --> 00:13:22.560 noticed that this site and the others like it is simply using dosbox a free 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:28.139 and open source dot simulator that you can also set up and run for yourself 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:30.000 without any ads dosbox runs on just 00:13:28.139 --> 00:13:35.459 about any modern operating system and can be used to run pretty much anything 00:13:31.920 --> 00:13:36.959 that ran on dos or Windows 3.1 as as 00:13:35.459 --> 00:13:41.339 long as you have the patience to set it up and troubleshoot it and it's this 00:13:39.420 --> 00:13:47.399 troubleshooting that leads many retro enthusiasts to Simply acquire older 00:13:44.459 --> 00:13:53.820 Hardware hence scale old software even if it's running 00:13:50.040 --> 00:13:56.279 correctly is full of idiosyncrasies that 00:13:53.820 --> 00:14:01.380 made sense at the time but seem pretty bass awkwards today for example many 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:06.240 older games have their physics and animations tied to the CPU clock speed 00:14:03.800 --> 00:14:11.040 therefore when you would upgrade your computer they would become completely 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:16.800 unplayable fun fact by the way that was the true purpose of the turbo button on 00:14:13.560 --> 00:14:18.839 pre-pentium era Intel PCS it was not to 00:14:16.800 --> 00:14:24.240 make the computer faster it was actually to slow it down for compatibility with 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:28.500 last gen software so unfortunately even older Hardware isn't the Silver Bullet 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:34.620 that you might think it would be I mean believe it or not the progressions from 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:38.040 dos to Windows 3.x to 95 and Windows 98 00:14:34.620 --> 00:14:39.899 took place over many years and Lolly 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:44.579 might think of them all as kind of part of the Dos based era there's no one 00:14:42.959 --> 00:14:48.899 Hardware configuration that will cover you across the board so after a Time 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:53.820 you're going to end up like Brian the electrician hoarding dozens of unique 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:57.120 configurations and the spare parts to go with them out of fear that your old 00:14:55.199 --> 00:15:02.160 Hardware will eventually fail and that there will be no way to replace it 00:14:59.459 --> 00:15:06.600 now Windows xp's compatibility mode is going to get you a lot of the way there 00:15:03.860 --> 00:15:11.760 but anyone who ever tried to use it at the time can tell you that it was less 00:15:08.339 --> 00:15:14.279 of an apple Rosetta and more of a oh wow 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:18.240 it worked what a pleasant surprise kind of experience I mean even PCM can't 00:15:16.740 --> 00:15:21.060 account for software that's just straight up incompatible with the 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:29.820 hardware speaking of which the Need for Speed SC 00:15:26.180 --> 00:15:32.699 DirectX is installed but that that's a 00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:37.620 weird hybrid of like a Windows and a Dos program like you saw that it said it's 00:15:34.860 --> 00:15:42.779 all DirectX 2 and DirectX 3 too I saw that both of those it actually runs in 00:15:40.260 --> 00:15:47.339 Daws and its installer is dos and it uses dos like sound configuration what 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:51.720 we're seeing here is whatever incompatibility we have either be a be 00:15:49.620 --> 00:15:57.540 it Hardware with our eax compatible sound card or maybe our Voodoo graphics 00:15:54.300 --> 00:16:00.620 card and Windows 98 at all Windows 98 at 00:15:57.540 --> 00:16:04.620 all it just will not run absolutely not 00:16:00.620 --> 00:16:07.260 however this apparent weakness is 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:12.959 actually one of pcm's greatest strengths watch this through the magic of Simply 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:18.060 creating a separate VM that emulates completely different Hardware we can 00:16:15.540 --> 00:16:23.160 either select our eax compatible sound card for immersive audio or we can do 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:27.300 this and handle games that came out during the transition from dos to 00:16:25.019 --> 00:16:31.139 Windows 95. let me tell you as someone who lived through it that was a 00:16:29.040 --> 00:16:35.459 painfully long period and compatibility was a huge problem did you know that 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:40.139 they still made dos games as late as 1998 because of the limitations of the 00:16:37.860 --> 00:16:47.820 early versions of DirectX let's try it again this time in Windows 95. 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.720 hey hey there we go 00:16:47.820 --> 00:16:53.579 shoot and stuff yeah yeah uh you should have an automatic 00:16:51.899 --> 00:16:59.279 shift but a you need to shift out of neutral oh hi there sorry Hi Mr speed 00:16:57.300 --> 00:17:03.120 limit inside this was a very immersive game back in the day this is 00:17:01.199 --> 00:17:07.740 unfortunately the special edition or SE which doesn't have any of the fun 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:11.819 cutscenes or colorful characters you just had the racing experience but while 00:17:10.199 --> 00:17:19.199 this game from that period works fine Jane's ATF from 1996 will not run in any 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:21.000 version of Windows it has to be dos and 00:17:19.199 --> 00:17:26.760 good luck getting everything working Anthony juggled having sound a mouse and 00:17:24.660 --> 00:17:31.620 networking support back in the day due to the need for a massive amount of 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:36.360 conventional memory of which only 640 kilobytes of it is available in DOS 00:17:34.020 --> 00:17:42.299 with that in mind the farther back we go we can go all the way back to the 00:17:38.520 --> 00:17:44.400 original IBM PC the more dosbox kind of 00:17:42.299 --> 00:17:49.080 just makes sense for people who only want to play games that is unless you 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:54.480 really want to relive the experience of manual memory management like Anthony 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:56.640 and so many others PCM will give you 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:01.740 that experience and it will be faithful which I guess leads us pretty well into 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:04.080 some of pcm's other weaknesses for 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:09.539 starters while serial ports and parallel ports are emulated you cannot pass 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:12.600 physical devices to them Anthony learned this the hard way when he tried to 00:18:10.860 --> 00:18:18.480 transfer saves from his Dreamcast massive memory card plus so what that 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:20.880 means is that if say an app had a dongle 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:25.440 for copy protection it's to the high seas for you matey and if you had 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:31.260 designs on replacing Old Point of Sale Hardware while keeping the software 00:18:26.940 --> 00:18:33.059 tough luck at least for now 86 bucks a 00:18:31.260 --> 00:18:37.380 fork of PCM that's looking to improve accuracy actually has us on the road map 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:41.160 but as of right now you would need to use something like dosbos X for 00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:45.179 pass-through and then hope that the software is compatible 00:18:42.660 --> 00:18:50.640 it's also a lot more difficult to access files on your host PC with PCM and with 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:56.700 its derivatives compared to dosbox where dosbox can just Mount any folder you 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:59.039 want as a drive letter PCM is For Better 00:18:56.700 --> 00:19:04.620 or For Worse much more like the original Hardware requiring either a network 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:06.960 connection or a disk and unfortunately 00:19:04.620 --> 00:19:12.360 while the network interface is emulated just fine and we were actually you saw 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:14.700 able to transfer files it couldn't see 00:19:12.360 --> 00:19:19.380 our host machine on the network because they have the same Mac Address like 00:19:16.260 --> 00:19:21.299 we're not 100 sure what was going on and 00:19:19.380 --> 00:19:27.240 the reality of it is that networking in Windows 98 wasn't great so what some 00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:33.419 people end up doing is setting up an FTP server on a separate VM or something but 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:36.419 what we did was to use folder to ISO or 00:19:33.419 --> 00:19:38.940 any to ISO to quickly turn folders into 00:19:36.419 --> 00:19:44.220 disk images that then can be mounted inside the vm's virtual CD-ROM drive 00:19:41.340 --> 00:19:49.799 it's clunky but at least it's something finally there's the configuration I did 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:53.280 say that PCM was easy to use but the problem is that there isn't as much 00:19:51.360 --> 00:19:57.960 granularity as you'd get in dosbox things like setting the irqs and dmas 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:02.520 for your sound devices might cause problems for you and unless you're a fan 00:20:00.120 --> 00:20:07.080 of black Borders or uneven pixels or Vaseline blur you're probably going to 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:11.460 need to use the opengl 3.0 renderer with the sharp bilinear 2x prescale Shader 00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:15.720 from retroarch if you want to get proper scaling it also doesn't come with the 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