once again, what should be a simple project is ruined by the unreliability of old windows in virtualbox

one of the weirder design decisions of windows 95:

you can have internet explorer installed on a system that does not support TCP/IP.

you'd think they'd make IE require that TCP/IP be installed, but nope

real handy if you want to browse some intranet sites over NetBIOS

I love how old internet explorer pops up dialog boxes when javascript breaks.

such an optimistic view of the future of the web, where we expected JS to actually work all the time

okay I've succeeded using:
* Netscape 4
* IE4

now I just need to find a (WORKING) VM with IE5 and IE6

IE8? huh. I'll take it I guess

ie3? wrong direction, but it's a datapoint I guess

IE7? HOW MANY INTERNET EXPLORERS DO I HAVE

I think the main problem is that I really, really need a working win98, which is the ie5/ie6 sweet spot.

maybe if I try patch9x on one of them it'll stop erroring

yay got one working

it has IE4.

BUT THAT CAN BE FIXED