#win98se — Public Fediverse posts
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I spent this evening trying to get my physical retro PC, a Pentium 166MHz running Windows 98 SE, to connect to an 80GB IDE harddisk. The BIOS seems to be limited to a maximum of 8GB, but in the end I managed to get it working. I needed to use Ontrack's Disk Manager 2000 to install a DDO driver.
I guess I became too lazy! Emulating old hardware is so much more convenient than dealing with real-world limitations like this. 😅
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Guess it's time to go find a spare PS/2 mouse...
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I guess, it's a little late in 2024, but if you're still looking for a Windows 98 SE boot disk, I recently unpacked and uploaded a fresh one. German OEM edition.
https://archive.org/details/win98se_bootdisk_de_kryoflux
Have fun! 😎
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Today, I upgraded my PC emulation setup to 86Box 4.1 and I also installed the new BIOS ROM set. Version 4.1 came with a long changelog and a lot of bugs were fixed.
I just played a few games and ran some sound and graphics tests. Everything seems to work just fine... Windows 3.11, as well as Windows 98 SE. I can only say "Thank you".
This is fun!
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@jhx My #OS stack
homelab: #debian , #openwrt
desktop: #win11 (#debian in #wsl2 )
laptop: #win11 (#debian in #wsl2 ), #debian
riscv5 laptop: #debian
arm pda: #debian
desktop2: #reactos , #haiku
powerbook g3: #macos 9.2.2, #rhapsody
libretto ct30: #msdos5 , #win311
libretto ct60: #msdos622 , #win95 , #redhat62
libretto ct70: #winnt4
thinkpad 535x: #os2warp4 , #win98se -
Finally went through this game that I abandoned in 1995. better late than never!
#fullthrottle #lucasarts #win98se #vintage #pcgamingbonus haiku section in the credits
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Era accurate machine means you get era accurate problems
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Playing Ms. Pac-Man on Windows 98 SE. A game from Microsoft's "Return of the Arcade" collection. This is how retro gaming looked back in the 90s.
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Microsoft 3D-Pinball for Windows 95. Took me a bit to remember where this one came from, as it wasn't part of a regular Windows 95 CD. No, this was from the Plus! add-on package! Oh, this was so long ago...
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Finding, installing, testing and sorting of all that Windows 9x stuff takes a lot longer than I had first anticipated.
I used to be so good at this, but so many of my oldschool web sources have gone dark over the years. Sad. Also, not every tool I once used still makes sense or even works inside an emulator. But, I'm slowly working through it all...
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When it comes to image editing, I am extremely lazy. When something works for me, I will be using it until it breaks. Looking back, as the years went by, I did only have to go through a handful of different programs.
From 1998 to 2007, I was a using Paint Shop Pro and I loved it! Versions 5 to 9 were awesome, but everything went to shit when Jasc was sold to Corel back in 2004. But I am still having very fond memories remembering these golden years.
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So, I just tested a few more games within my virtual 86Box and Windows 98 SE:
Microsoft's Fury 3 and Monster Truck Madness are working great! I guess, this should be expected, as they're from the earlier Windows 95 era, but SimCity 3000 from 1999 also runs really smoothly.
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What's the point of setting up an emulated Windows 98 SE system without playing some games? Here's a classic from the year 2000 and one of my absolut favourites! No One Lives Forever!
P. S.: NOLF runs pretty smoothly on my 86Box and an emulated Pentium MMX 233MHz + Voodoo 3 3000 graphics card. Everything seems to work, although I think this game would feel more at home on a faster machine and Windows XP.
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When it's 3am on a Sunday morning and your digital assistant gives you that look....
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SimCity 2000 on Windows 98 SE did support a whole lot of beautiful pixels. This resolution was definitely an upgrade over the old (S)VGA modes of the MS-DOS version! 😃
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I finally migrated my virtual 486-DX2 66MHz from PCem to 86Box. It's joining the newly set-up Pentium MMX 233MHz. PC emulation is fun! 😃
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I'm currently re-installing Windows 98 SE for the "maybe 20th time" tonight. I think I might have finally found a working configuration to get my 1995-2000 retro games collection running to get everything sorted properly. These files have been a total mess since 2011.
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I' am checking out the differences between PCem and 86Box today, by running through several installations of Windows 98 SE on a variety of bios and hardware configurations.
I must say, I really like 86Box so far!
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I actually managed to get my old version of "Age of Empires II" playing in the PCem emulator. Even the noCD-crack from 2000 is still working perfectly. Here it is running on "high" settings and 1024x768 resolution. The music and sounds are working fine, too!
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OK, after almost a whole day of trial and error, I finally managed to run PCem v17 and Windows 98 SE without issues in the windows device manager. It's still not perfect, but I am happy I got this far.
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Since my personal MS-DOS and Amiga collection is nearing its completion, I am going to start looking at 32-bit systems now, running Windows 9x/NT.
As a very first step, I am checking out all kinds of Windows 98 SE setup discs and system configurations. Here's Windows 98 SE OEM incl. Plus! pack. Running on a virtual Pentium 233MHz system.
I must say, this gives me much less of a retro vibe and it feels almost too modern, compared to Windows 3.1x or Workbench 3.x. But, yeah... there were so many great games!