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Zoombinis (1996) running in an emulator!! this is running on Windows 98 SE on top of DosBox Pure on top of Retroarch on top of Android. This gave me some bluescreens at first but it turns out I needed to set the emulated CPU core to "normal" instead of "dynamic" to avoid "fatal error 0E", which is a memory page fault.

Unfortunately the way that DosBox Pure currently handles save data for win98 games is a little tricky, you either need to use a mutable virtual hard disk and save everything to that, or else you need to use these opaque ".sav" files which represent a diff against an exact prior state of an immutable hard disk. I've heard there's support for mounting multiple hard disks at once, so you could have an immutable one for windows and then a smaller one for the game-specific data, I might try that later. For now I'm just glad to have it working in "practice" mode so I can go to the pizza level :)

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