WINE suffers from the same problem, you can’t run x86 on ARM without an emulation layer and Wine Is Not Emulation.
It just maps syscalls so if you’re on x86 you can get by but not on ARM without some other help.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that

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And I’m well aware you can run stuff like this on a Pi, we have a meeting room at work that runs Google Hangouts on a Pi, and that’s more demanding than a quiet forum on CPU resources.
Hmmm... interesting. Could you get any CPU/RAM/HDD stats on this

? No obligations, of course

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For running Win98 era games looks like i'll have to look into a virtual machine to run on Win 8.1. I assume that i'll need my old Win98 disc which i've got somewhere
The install is free for download, as far as I know

. Though, if I remember correctly, it was taken down from Microsoft's site (XP too

). There are alternative sites which offer Win98 SE as an ISO download

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