#How to use virtualbox to play mtgo how to#
#How to use virtualbox to play mtgo install#

#How to use virtualbox to play mtgo how to#

If anyone knows how to do this & can give me step-by-step instructions without too much intense technical jargon, that would be fantastic. I did look through this subreddit's all time top posts to see if there was anything similar posted, and I found a link to a FAQ that had a comment about a Manual, and in the manual I found a small mention of 'changing removable media', but it seems to reference a tab in Settings that doesn't actually exist in the current version of VirtualBox as far as I can tell so that was of no help. I've looked through Settings in VirtualBox but can't find anything that I can change that seems to have to do with disk drives in this kind of context. When I open My Computer in Win98, it seems to recognize that there is a CD drive but it thinks that there's a Win98 installation disk in it (ergo it's just recognizing the ISO file, I guess).

#How to use virtualbox to play mtgo install#

The tricky part now is I need the Windows98 to recognize my Windows10 PC's external optical drive so that I can install Civ2 & play it. I did not install any extensions or additions (I'm already enough outside my comfort zone as it is!).

I then just looked up, found, & downloaded an ISO of a fresh new copy of Windows 98, then followed this tutorial to install it, and it worked ( ). I looked up several tutorials to try to load my old Win98 backup, but the backup is a 'Virtual Hard Disk' file and every tutorial I could find involved using an ISO file of Win98, so that option was out the door, I guess. I did some googling (well, Binging) & found Oracle VM VirtualBox which I downloaded & installed. I still have a backup of the Windows 98 but not the virtual machine, and I've been hankering to play Civ2 again so I decided to try this all again on my current Windows 10 computer. I did so with a much tech-smarter friend instructing me, btw. Hi, first of all let me say that I'm only moderately computer-skilled and looking at this subreddit makes me feel way out of my league so please be gentle with me when it comes to technical language.īasically, many years ago I installed Windows 98 on a previous computer via a virtual machine (don't remember exactly what product) solely so I could play Civilization II again.