Running Win95/98 on iPod and iPad

[Guest wsxedcrfv]

There are various videos showing how to run win-95 and 98 on iPod-touch and iPad, apparently using something called the Bochs x86 emulator. I would actually buy an iPod or iPad only to run win-98 on it (assuming that wifi worked on it, and if it also had working usb ports).

[jaclaz]

Well, if this is the case iPod doesn't run Win98, it runs a "wide target" emulator, BOCHS, i.e. a Virtual Machine, inside which you run Win98. (or whatever):

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

BOCHS is extremely slow normally, I have no idea how slow it will run on an iPod or iPhone.

There are a number of quick guides to have it running, though the verb "to run" should be intended as "to walk really slowly".

http://goodiphone.com/2009/07/windows-95-on-iphone/

http://blog.alltechrelated.com/2009/07/25/how-to-install-and-use-bochs-run-win95-or-win3-11-on-iphoneipod-touch/

The iPad appears like a better candidate but at the moment you can simply forget about USB and Wi-Fi within Bochs, let alone on a newish hardware platform:

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/features.html

jaclaz