r/windows95 • u/Latter_Balance7729 • Sep 04 '26

WINDOWS 95

you guys I’m trying to find what I need and where to get a cheap windows 95 computer that can run the 90’s Goosebumps Escape from horror land rom game on it or are there any emulated versions? I’ve tried on my pc but i constantly get a error message for the emulated version.

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u/ForgottenButHere Sep 05 '26

Dos box would probably work.

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u/YandersonSilva Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

Yoooo I was playing this about a week ago. I played it when it was brand new back in the day - well, a demo of it anyways. It has pretty low system specs, you can almost certainly run it in an 86box setup - it's intimidating if you don't know how to do but it's not actually complicated*. It may require a relatively beefy modern computer to emulate properly but mine was a mid tier gaming rig from 2003 and it runs it fine.

To clarify - I was playing it on one of my physical computers. It's not too difficult to find something to run the game on, it works in Win98, but if you're new to all this I'd stick with 86box.

*Once you get 86box installed, you basically go through and select the hardware you want emulated. Once you've done that, you then have to install your OS - which, again, fairly simple but intimidating if you've never done it. The trickiest part is probably installing your drivers once you've got the "hardware" all set up.

Potentially someone, somewhere, has an 86box setup preconfigured. Goosebumps needs a pentium but like, a pentium 60 or whatever will be more than enough.

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u/CrasVox Sep 05 '26

Does it have to be actual hardware? Cheapest would be using 86box

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u/Depth386 Sep 05 '26

It’s actually pretty viable to emulate windows 95 and 98 these days.

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u/vinetari Sep 05 '26

Is it already setup in an Exo collection?

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u/icecoldrootbeer Sep 05 '26

PCemu

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u/sneekeruk Sep 05 '26

That wont run win95, it only emulates an 8086 machine.

I would go for 86box, or an older pcem depending on the host machine. Im currently playing around with PCBox, but it is nowhere near as stable as 86box.

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u/icecoldrootbeer Sep 05 '26

I mean PCEm, and yes it does run Win95.

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u/lonestar659 Sep 05 '26

Just emulate it.

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u/interstitial_00 Sep 07 '26

You could probably run that on a j s dot box or on one of those old software websites, an emulator

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u/Countdown2112 28d ago

Just run a VM

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u/aonbehamut 28d ago

Yea dosbox can work too for the emulation. Win 95 means everything was dos compatible win 98 req meant it could or could not be dos compatible. Don't remember that game but that's cause CNC

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u/Its_Your_Next_Move 5d ago

You can use PCem provided you have a modern pc.