As system, choose Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-6.1) (pc).

Start UTM and click on “Create a New Virtual Machine”: It took a lot of time of testing to figure out what was the best match for maximum compatibility. Now we need to create a new virtual machine with UTM for use with the next step. Step 3) Create a VM for your Windows 98 SE installationĪt this point we have both the ISO file for installing Windows and we have our hypervisor/emulator, UTM, ready. Then start UTM, simply by launching it as any other application on your Mac. dmg file by double clicking on it and move UTM.app to your Applications folder using Finder:

Step 2) Downlad and install UTMĪfter you get your hands on an ISO which we will use to get Windows installed, we first need to install UTM on our Mac if you haven’t done so. I’m not sure if you can see Windows 98 SE as abandonware yet and it’s a gray area anyway to distribute such software, hence why I don’t provide a direct link here. Together with the ISO you will need a product key as well, which I found in the same place as I found the ISO :) Just pay attention that you get an OEM version as that is the version that is bootable from the CD/ISO.

The first hit I had when searching for the term on Google got me one. It shouldn’t be very hard to get your hands on a proper Windows 98 SE ISO file.

The first thing we need to get is a copy of the Windows 98 SE installation media. It will also allow us to configure the required hardware like a video card and sound card, compatible with the old OS version.įor this article, I’ll be using a Macbook Air M1 but the exact same instructions work on any other Mac as well. UTM is using QEMU under the hood and is capable of emulating different processor architectures, which includes x86 or i386 which was the architecture of the era where Windows 98 was new.

To get Windows 98 SE operational on a modern Mac with an Intel x86-64 CPU or M1 SOC, as mentioned above, I’ll be using UTM ( ). The main reason for this choice is that it contains some nice improvements over 95, like USB support, but is not too modern to still have a fully working DOS environment for older games. If you let the idea of using such an old OS and the purpose of doing so sink in, you might ask yourself why specifically Windows 98 and not 95, Me or XP for example.

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