THIS MAN WAS LIKE "NAAAH YOU CANT RUN 95 IN A VM, AINT NO WAY YOU FINNA RUN 95 SINCE YO CPU BIGGIE RYZEN, GO DO NT INSTEAD YOU BASIC BITCH" AND ME AND fionn WERE LIKE "HELL NAH HE'S JUST BEING HELLA PESSIMISTIC" AND THEN MY MAN FINDS A PATCH N SHIT AND SO DO I A FEW DAYS LATER AND WE BOTH SET ONE UP. (admittedly fionn only got as far as successfully installing it, some point ill teach him how to fully set it up with sound drivers n all) BUT VRO I SPENT THE PAST FEW HOURS GETTING VMWARE TOOLS INSTALLED, AND GETTING ONLINE AND SOUND SHIT
AND MAN WAS WRONG ABOUT WHY IT WAS GIVING WINDOWS PROTECTION ERRORS, NOT BECAUSE BIGGIE RYZEN BUT ITS ACTUALLY BIGGIE GIGAHERTZ. Seriously, windows 95 natively doesn't like any cpu over 2.1GHz and it would need to be patched, even if you're in a VM since most of the time it inherits the CPU information. its that old however when video says it to me its like "wow you did it but you needed a patch" and surprisingly on my first reattempt to install i managed to get it running without the patch. if i actually did this vm on something like my old family pc with a 1.8GHz Processor, i wouldn't need one.
all in all, i consider this a win. THE DREAM PREVAILS!