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By the 90s, PCs with [[Intel CPUs]] started to break away from the mold of their 16-bit incarnations. Windows 9x is a series of hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems. It began with Intel taking the helm of the PC platform with the ATX specification, which departed from the PC AT and related models in a number of ways. The rise of PCs also brought with it the bundling of the Windows 9x family of operating systems, which were hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems consisting of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME; Windows 2000 was based on Windows NT.

Playing games for these platforms on a modern system can be difficult but if you are trying to get them working, you should only be using this page as a last resort and would be better suited to read the [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com PC Gaming Wiki], which likely already has information on the game you want. If you don't have the game you want, you can download it from [https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems WinWorldPC].

One way to get Windows 9x software running is to run the operating system in a virtual machine. Unfortunately, this requires you to know how to manually install a Windows 9x-family operating system on a computer. If you do decide to install Windows 95 in a Virtual Machinevirtual machine, note you will need to install [http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/fix95cpu.html FIX95CPU] for it to run on processors with clock speeds over 2.1GHz (for Intel CPUs) and 300MHz (for AMD CPUs). Otherwise, you Failing to do so will get result in a Windows "Protection Error"at boot time.

VMWare Tools supports Windows 95 through Windows 10. It should be noted that Virtualbox VirtualBox does not include 3D acceleration for Windows 9x.