To revert your desktop background, right click anywhere on your desktop and choose 'Personalize'.
From here you can choose a theme more suited for you such as 'Windows 10' theme. To deactivate the classic theme, go to the Windows menu and type in 'Themes'. For instance, when using the Microsoft Edge browser, the grey look and feel can make individual buttons hard to distinguish. Undo your changesĪs nostalgic as the classic theme appears, it may not work well with more modern features. The desktop background will now be changed to the Windows 98 image that you downloaded. Finally, right-click on the image choose 'Set as Desktop'. Double-click to open the image in the Photos app. Once the download is complete, open the Windows 10 File Explorer and navigate to the location of the image. Next, right-click the image and choose 'Save Image As' to download it to an easy to remember location (such as your 'Pictures' folder). To customize the desktop further, first find your chosen image such as this one from w ww. For users of Windows 98 SE (Second Edition), this may not be too familiar.įortunately there are plenty of good quality desktop backgrounds available online which imitate the Windows 98 desktop. This will leave you with 3 possible options:ģ.Use a “ workaround” for the EFI file used by the virtual machine.Once the classic theme is loaded, you'll notice that the Desktop background is a rather insipid shade of green which was used in early versions of Windows 98.
However, due to legal limitations, VMware Fusion will not allow you to run Snow Leopard guest or any previous OS X version. This basically means that the latest version which will support AK.SYS is Snow Leopard 10.6.3.
#Windows 98 usb vmware driver#
I would normally consider Windows 7 to be stable but I did managed to get a blue screen when the AK.SYS driver was misbehaving.Īs the AK.SYS software was developed for the PowerPC platform, only OS X versions with Rosetta support (which lets you run PowerPC software on Intel) will work. I personally consider Windows ME an unstable piece of crap which should never have seen the light of day.īy most people considered to be the best choice for running AK.SYSĪlthough Service Pack 2 did at some point make Vista sort of usable, I’m not a fan of this OS. As such, I would recommend against using Windows 98.
#Windows 98 usb vmware drivers#
Windows 98 basically should work but the VMware Fusion drivers for 98 leave half the devices not properly detected. – Present the AKAI USB device to the Virtual Machine
#Windows 98 usb vmware 32 bit#
– Only 32 bit versions of Windows will work with AK.SYS Use a hypervisor (Virtual Box / VMware Fusion / Parallels) to emulate older hardware within a virtual machine. Use older hardware (old laptop) to run the softwareĢ. To be able to keep using this software, there are at least 2 possible options:ġ. This also means it’s getting harder and harder to run older software on newer OS platforms.Īkai back in the day, developed the AK.SYS software to easily control any S5000/S6000 samplers remotely if they were equiped with the required USB card. The fun/challenge working with old music equipment, is that the software and drivers required for them are also aging quite a bit.