Is Windows 95/98 On DSi Possible?

[fireballfurby]

like, is it possible, windows 95 requires 4mb of ram, and 98 16mb which the dsi has. so is it possible to get it running either emulated or natively?
And yes, DSi not DS

 

[osaka35]

No clue. All i remember is DOSbox being a thing on the DS:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/dosbox-ds.111993/

and the new 3ds being able to run windows using dosbox:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-on-the-new-3ds.407756/

as far as windows on ds or dsi, i'm not entirely sure about what'd be required.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

like, is it possible, windows 95 requires 4mb of ram, and 98 16mb which the dsi has. so is it possible to get it running either emulated or natively?
And yes, DSi not DS

Windows 9x will not run natively on DS(i) because x86 is a completely different CPU architecture than ARM.

Official memory requirements don't mean much. Running Win95 with 4MB (starts being useful at 32MB) is as awful as Win98 with 16MB (starts being useful at 64MB… better more).

Generally installing DOS based Windows versions is possible on DOSBox
No idea how good DOSBox works on DS(i) – if there even is a version running in DSi mode which can profit from the 16MB RAM and the double clock rate. Emulating an x86 computer for starting 32-bit Windows on a DS(i) doesn't sound like a viable idea for practical use (maybe just for proof of concept). I've seen masochists trying to get Windows XP to boot on actual x86 computers far too weak (underclocked Pentium 1 to only 8MHz with just 18MB RAM). Even starting such a machine will take eternity.

With the emulation overhead starting Windows 9x on DS(i) would feel similar. The extremely low resolution is the next obstacle.

As much as I like experiments: I recommend trying something else. But maybe somebody else knows more.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[Pk11]

There's also DSx86 which may run better(?), not sure how they compare but DSx86 is newer at least.

DSx86 can't run Windows 9x, though (only up to 3.0), I doubt 9x is really possible on the DSi...

 

[bbking67]

it seems unrealistic performance-wise... emulation has a huge cost.

 

[jamespoo]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/run-windows-3-0-on-any-ds-easy.612379/