So while the Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to emulate a 3.5MHz SNES and even a 33MHz PlayStation, it is not powerful enough to emulate even a 100MHz PC very well.
The problem is, these Windows games ran on x86 architecture and the Raspberry Pi is ARM architecture, so to play x86 games on Pi there will always be some translation/emulation of the game code to run on the different hardware.
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I think there is already some tutorials out there showing how to install Windows 98 in Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 2/3.Īlso if you purchase ExaGear Desktop, please let us know if that said: It might be worth installing Windows 98 to give it a try and let us know what you find out. Now any other Windows emulators for ARM processors? I found these articles online talked about a commercial product, ExaGear Desktop, that might be able to handle this:
I won't say that it's impossible but with the tools/code readily available the outlook is very grim but if someone with amazing hacker programming skills wanted to take on the challenge of add ARM processor support to the current WINE project, the world would be a better place :) The other problem is the Raspberry Pi uses an ARM processors (like what's in most android cell phones) and WINE emulator works with the Intel/AMD x86/64 processor family but hasn't really be updated to take advantage of the ARM processor so it won't work on a Raspberry Pi. Also you run into the problem of finding all the device drivers for graphics and sound and network. The only thing "emulated" would be MS-DOS but it will be running Windows inside of DOS which would be emulated so that factor would slow it down. Well Windows 3.1, 95, 98 & ME all ran on top of MS-DOS so it's probably possible to install any one of those in the DOSBox emulator on the Raspberry Pi.