When you leave a tool with great potential in the hands of authentic masters, fantasies of all kinds can be produced. And it is that in Digital Foundry they have been able to achieve that a Xbox Series X has Windows 98 installed inside it to be able to play all kinds of retro catalog.
How has it been possible? We can attribute the merit to DOSBox Pure, a RetroArch emulator, along with a copy of the old Microsoft program. For all this to work, it is necessary to access the Developer Mode of the new generation console through the Partner Program of the American company.
Once done and after configuring DOSBox Pure with a copy of Windows 98, everything is ready. That yes, it is necessary to take into account that it is due to play with the Xbox controller acting as a mouse, since the system does detect a keyboard, but it cannot do the same with the other peripheral. From this point on, Digital Foundry had no major problems playing Turok , RollerCoaster Tycoon and Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
The best thing is that all the works work perfectly on the Xbox Series X and the performance is slightly better than a PC of the time. In addition, they also got Paint and Word 97 to run normally. One more demonstration of how the community squeezes the possibilities, as it happens when you get Doom to work on practically any gadget.