However, on booting up the VM, the following error occurred The Windows image formatted the C: drive for me, I didn’t have to insert a boot disk or fdisk the hard drive. The following pages how to install Windows 98 on VirtualBoxīe aware, however, that most of the initial steps outlined were unnecessary: I simply chose install from CD. As I already had the CDs, I created the ISOs using Brasero on Ubuntu.
If you’re not familiar with it, there are lots of tutorials on the web. Given the number of posts online by other people attempting to run Obsidian, I thought I’d share the process I followed.
It should be no problem on a more modern machine. I did the following on an old laptop (> 10 years) with Ubuntu installed. The games won’t install on Windows 10, but there was an old Windows 98 installation disk amongst the CDs and so a solution presented itself. She was a big fan of adventure games, in particular MYST and Obsidian, and she wanted to play them again. My mother unearthed a load of old CD ROMs in her attic over Christmas.
