On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:20 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
What next? Is VMWare the only answer? Does that work in better than 640 x 480?
Dunno if it is the only answer, but it would be capable of resolutions higher than 640x480 as it has native drivers that install into Windows 98, networking would function (as well as it ever did in Win98) as would your CD Rom. The only slight complication you would have is that you either have to install the VMware Server edition or somehow obtain an existing vmware disk image you can install Win98 into and use it in VMware player (which as the advantage of being easier to install and a better desktop responsiveness but as a limited subset version of vmware workstation cannot create it's own images) Personally I would go with server.
Also of course if you have the necessary memory and licences then you could run a more recent copy of windows.
Performance wise if your machine is reasonably recent you should have no problems. XP here in VMware server on a 3 year old AMD64 feels almost as fast as it does on most machines native.
Other than that if you have a processor with VT extensions you could look at a more recent version of windows + Xen