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?
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You can use winecfg to modify the default version of Windows emulated or to modify settings for specific executables.
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.
2DOSBox has some support for Windows 95... And it is open source.
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