Now, if Android on N900 was cool, I am running out of adjectives to describe what it would be like to have Windows 98 on N900s. I know its overly outdated but I bet there a few geeks like me who would still swear by Windows 98 for its speed and sheer simplicity. Afterall it was designed to run on 500 MHz processors which were the mainstream desktop processor at that time. No wonder, it works great on N900 which boasts of a 633 MHz processor of its own!

The Windows 98 port is courtesy Maemoworld.ru, the Russian maemo community, which has been pretty active online community. Since I have no experience with the Russian script, I had to turn to Google translate to help me decipher the forum post, which unfortunately doesn’t make much sense to me. However, I was able to figure out the steps involved in getting win98 onboard N900:

1. Set dosbox from repositories
2. Download the image section with vindom
3. Create a folder / home / user / MyDocs / dosbox and extract there W98Lite.img
4. Edit config dosboksa / home/user/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf as follows:
somewhere at the top looking fullscreen option and make it true
? at the end of the file in section [autoexec] appends the string:
imgmount c /home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img -t hdd -fs fat imgmount c / home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img-t hdd-fs fat
boot -lc boot-lc
5. Run dosboks and wait for the download

For further details, please refer to the original forum post Google Translated English version or the original Russian version.