Hi! Matt,

On Mon, 01 Oct 12, you wrote to me:

 MM> I want to use old bbs software, but I still want to use the latest
 MM> computing hardware.

That's what I do here.  Two year old Dell dual-core hardware running Ububtu
10.04 (still) LTS, with multiple VirtualBox (vBox) PCs: a mix of various
OSs, two of which are Win98SE.  One of those vBoxes is my Fidonet node
which I am writing this on from a RDP session out of a Terminal Server
Client box on my wife's Ubuntu PC.  (She runs two XP-Home vBoxes as well on
hers BTW.)

So.  Were you still interested in running Win98SE?  With the best MS-DOS
ever released and not some crappy M$ emulation out of a so-called advanced
Windows.  Who cares if you can't run the latest gee-whiz apps in it!  It
runs Fido just great, and has done since Feb 2011.

If you're wanting to marry-up VirtualBox + Win98SE, then there's some handy
notes that I took when I was researching the idea for myself to be found
at: _http://tinyurl.com/9x39v8d_ (look for the Win*.pdf files on Page2). 
It's best to install Win98 by forcing ACPI support, and, I heartily
recommend the SciTech Display Doctor video driver.  Both of my vBoxes are
running 1024x768x24-bit desktops.

If I can help then let me know.

Cheers,
Paul.

... At the prompt, remove disk, spit on it, then retry.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox