Virtualbox Windows 98 Guest Additions. Step 1 After you run the Windows 95 virtual machine, open the Display Properties setting window. As you can see in the image below, there are only 2 options in the Color Palette section. In these options require being 32 bit color option. And in the Desktop Area, it can not be configured the screen. On a related note, a few weeks ago I decided to make a 98 gaming box using some spare parts in my closet. I threw a P4 system together using a 2.8GHz Northwood, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB SATA drive using IDE emulation, a DVD-RW drive and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. After a little tinkering (particularly the RAM bit) Windows 98 ran like a dream.
This tutorial uses VirtualBox Version 5.2.6 (for Windows hosts) with the VirtualBox 5.2.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack installed (both can be downloaded from here). A copy of Windows 98 (and it’s Licence Key). This can either be an original CD or an ISO image. This tutorial uses an ISO image of Windows 98 Second Edition (Retail). Install this 32-bit gaming requirement for Windows 98/98SE/Me. Microsoft DirectX Drivers (Windows 98/98SE/Me). After fiddling around with the above changes and rebooting several times you should be able to select 800x600 or 1024x768 (or higher) resolutions with 32 bit color depth. (setting 32 bit color mode optimizes the interface with Virtualbox and really speeds things up) 4. Network Easiest thing, is to setup VirtualBox to NAT, and AMD PCnet-II.
No more 16-color limitation
Alternative VMWare display driver
32-bit Color Driver Download
This driver does not support OpenGL or D3D!
No hardware acceleration is available!
Notes:The driver version provided is 2014.02.14
Further details about these drivers can be read here