Virtualized ME on ryzen 5 3600?

[Jaguarek62]

Hi,

I wanted to run some very old program, so I setup virtual machine on vmware workstation 16 with the host being windows 8.1

unfortunately my windows 98 SE and Windows ME both are giving very weird kernel32 issues. I heard that it can me cpu related. Windows 98 does not boot, windows me boots to desktop albeit very broken one. Is there any way to fix this?

 

Thanks

[ByQuadCore]

That happens because the VME instructions in AMD Zen and Intel 11th Gen+ are broken. Possibly because 32Bit operating system support was dropped starting with these architectures. A Simple fix for this can be found here, works just fine: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x/releases/

[Dweiwin]

You can also use 86Box & PCem for Windows 9x virtualization, they work on AMD Zen and Intel Tiger Late+.