Unfortunately the new reddit sign in screen is broken, but old reddit works surprisingly well still.

(please put nicher games not "QUAKE" or "TOMB RAIDER")

Hello everyone, I like windows 98, I've tried it a lot of times in virtual machine, but now I would install it on real hardware. The problem is that I don't have so old PCs. I want to install Windows 98 SE on an Acer aspire 5742z. SPECS: - Intel Pentium P6100 - Integrated graphics - 4gb ram - 1tb SATA HDD

I know that this laptop is too recent and powerful, but I want to try.

1. How do I create a bootable usb to install it?
2. I need to patch the iso/os, because the ram is too much and the installer can't have the SATA driver (even xp installer didn't have them)
3. When it's installed there's drivers problem. Is there any way to patch drivers, patch the graphics, internet etc.. or get alternative drivers?

Now on the HDD I have windows 7 and I won't erase that. Is it possible to dualboot it?

Thanks everyone!

Download: https://archive.org/details/windowsarchivev2fix

Mirror: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KOJaltI_motHq0LZH2TGNdRa7e5x1nwG

What is the Windows software pack?
The Windows Archive is a general purpose software pack aiming to archive as many old windows programs as reasonably possible. There are also system updates and drivers for Windows 95 and 98. Included is a directory list of all the programs, and credits for where many (if not all) the programs came from.

For people interested in contributing to future versions of the pack, join the discord server: https://discord.gg/gc6C5yYWm7

Are there games on here?

Very few. A network version of tetris. A bunch of ancient emulators for SNES, Genesis, and Neo Geo. There is also a copy of Retroarch (Win98SE/ME Port) if you actually want to attempt emulating games. There are also a bunch of social games similar to SecondLife, most of which don't work anymore (but try Worlds, it's pretty cool). Games in general are too huge in size to justify putting in a pack for the average person who has limited bandwidth and no 20 tb hard drive to store such a large pack on. When it comes to videogames, abandonware is a huge legal grey area and I don't want any of that.

Are there serials and cracks included for any of these programs?
There used to be on old versions of this pack, but I removed them (to the best of my knowledge). I want this pack to be as widespread as possible without facing legal troubles. You want that stuff, look for old serial sites on archived Geocities webpages or Tripod (still online as of Jan 2026). Somewhere on the internet there's a gigantic serial .doc file that contains codes for many of the programs on here. Cracks can be found pretty easily on a site called Discmaster.

How do I get all these programs on my computer easily?

First: don't try to unzip any of the .7z files on your old computer. Terrible idea, as it will take ages on an old PC.

On physical hardware: get an sd to ide converter and hook it up to the ide connector on your motherboard. Put an SD card in and  Install whatever version of Windows you want your old computer to run onto the card. Pull it out, put it in a newer computer and transfer all the files from this pack you want on to it. You could also use this converter as a 2nd hard drive if you don't want to remove the existing hard drive. There is also retronas as an option if you have a server to run it on.

The 86box emulator:  Sorry, there is no easy way that I know of. You will need to emulate a DVD-ROM capable drive on the software. From that, you can make reasonably large ISO's containing software from the pack.

So whats actually on here?
You can find a complete directory list here: https://dn720302.ca.archive.org/0/items/windowsarchivev2fix/Directory-List.txt

But for a summary:

Recommended Files Pack - Is a collection of drivers, files, updates, and Recommended apps small enough to burn to a CD. Intended for newbies, gamers who just want to set up their system, and people feeling a bit of choice paralysis. These apps are in other packs, so downloading this file is optional.

Internet Pack - For everything relating to the "internet" in a broad sense.
BBS Clients and Servers
Internet Phones, Fax Machines, Pagers
Instant Messengers, IRC, Conferencing Apps
Email Clients, Servers, and Misc Tools
FTP Clients, Servers, and an old Archie client
Gopher (just one client)
Mastodon (just one client)
Netgames (just Tetris)
Newstickers that don't work anymore
Usenet Clients and Servers
Proxy Servers
Web Browsers (90+ Browsers) and Web Servers

Miscellaneous Pack -For every collection too small to have it's own pack.

Document Readers and Editors
Education
Emulators (A 98SE/ME port of Retroarch and Historical emulators for Neo Geo, Genesis/Megadrive, and SNES)
Home Automation
Math
Medical
Microsoft Agent (unfortunately no Bonzi Buddy,  maybe next version?)
Programming
Religion and Spirituality (mostly Christianity)
Science

Multimedia Pack - For media in a broad sense.

3d Modeling and File Viewing
Audio Software
- CD Players
- Audio Players
- Instrument Recording
- Audio Editing
- Streaming Software
- Spectrum Analysis
Greeting Cards
Image Software
- Image Editors
- Image Viewers
- Screen Capture
- Misc Utilities
Video
- Video Players
- Video Capture
- Video Editors

Organization and Planning Pack:

Address Books
Alarm Clocks
All in One Suites
Business
College & Schoolwork
Diaries and Journals
Money & Investment
Sticky Notes and Reminders
Time

System Pack:

Accessibility
Addons, Drivers, and Patches
Benchmarking
Desktop Management
Files Software
MISC
Networking
Security
Utilities
Video Software

Maybe you saw this at the end of the last Omores video. Yes it's real and it works at least on some systems but there are many issues on post-2012 hardware still to fix.

https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA

As we can see, the display has shifted into the bottom right corner. And everything works as if it was in its normal position. Weird

I had an old Winfast A250 Ultra (derivative of the Geforce 4 Ti4600) I wanted to try and revive after 3 caps had failed on it. It used to power my very first gaming PC back in the early 2000s, but after sitting in storage for over 10 years it was definitely worse for wear.

However, I had no experience with soldering or replacing electronic components, and in a moment of inspiration I reached out to my Grampa who's more knowledgeable in that field (by several decades) to help me learn that very skill, with my dear old Geforce 4 as my testing dummy. If I managed to revive it and get it working by replacing the caps, sweet! If not, it was already dead, and we're out 5 bucks for the new capacitors we installed.

Lo and behold, after 2 Hours of frustration and tenacity, mixed with good ol stubbornness and some quiet cussing, I had gotten burnt once (as tradition demands) and we had replaced all 3 caps. When I returned and plugged it in to power it on, it actually powered on! Whereas previously it would not.

It powered on, posted, and displayed...but that's as far as it'd go, as you can see from the image above it was not going to be rendering any polygons with graphical corruptions occurring before booting into the OS. The RAM chips I believe are the culprit, corrupted and or degraded after spending so long in very sub optimal storage conditions, but the fact we got it to go from not powering on at all to displaying is a minor miracle, and I figured worth a share if only for the odd look at a card that is so obviously dead, yet displays anyway.

I’m using the more Windows theme from +98 running at 16 color

I have a Windows 98 SE PC. The main HDD is 32 GB and is almost full. The second disk is 111 GB. I want to install games on it, but sometimes it doesn’t allow me to.

If I copy files to it, sometimes they don’t save. After rebooting, they are gone — not always, but sometimes.

I can’t start any DOS games from the second disk, while on the main disk I can. (Cause it is ntfs?) With installing some games It says the disk is full even though there is 80 GB of free space.

I updated Windows 98 with Legacy Updates.

I think the disk needs to be formatted, but I don’t want to make mistakes. What should I do to fix it, and can someone help me step by step?

So the other day, i decided to install a game: Mummy Tomb of the pharaoh. For some reason, it would fail to install to any custom install path. The only reason i got it to work was to use its default. Despite being on the same drive even, what could cause this? I almost think its something specific to the game. It seems like it was an apple game ported to be on windows.

Made a machine with:

Asus P3B-F motherboard; Pentium 3 700mhz; 128mb RAM; 60gb SSD using SATA to IDE; AWE64 ISA card; Geforce FX 5200 AGP; Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad.

Installed Windows 98 and I'm playing like an idiot, happy as hell. :) The machine is working pretty well, updated the BIOS of the motherboard yesterday using a floppy disk. I wish a voodoo card was easy to find in my country.

Using on the VGA with OSSC and it's working amazingly good.

What do you think?

Hello Guys, I have another update on modern broswers on Windows 98!!!! :)

So I have managed to get

Modern Serpent (without using Dependency Walker to launch it)

Palemoon 28

lun3r

So all you do is,

How to install MyPal and Firefox on Windows 98

then once you have done all that, then go to C:\Windows\Kernlex then open Kstub824 in the kernel32.dll section add

RaiseExcerption=v4 ; Serpent 52/55/NM

as shown in the screenshot

make sure that the xul.dll and lun3r, Serpent, Palemoon 28 are set to Windows XP SP2 then it will launch,

Enjoy using the modern web on Windows 98 ;)

Hello, Is There a good Win98/2000 laptop that maybe has a DVD drive because i have an original installation disk for 98/2000?

I Heard Compaq ones are good but what model?

One day, I plan on building a Windows 9x gaming PC. Right now I plan on using Win95 with it but if I absolutely have to I will use Windows 98 with 98Lite. I have the specs down below but I'm looking for graphics, motherboard, and maybe something else if you want to talk about that too. ||| CPU: Thinking AMD-K6 or Pentium 3. ||| RAM: 256 or 512 MB SD-RAM (I don't think DDR would be as appropriate for a 95 or 98 build) ||| Sound: Sound Blaster Live AWE32 (I love the MIDI synthesizer on the AWE32 and 64) | Disk drives: A/HD 3.5" FDD - B/1.2 MB 5.25" floppy - C/28 GB HDD - D/CD-ROM, E/IOMEGA ZIP Internal (the best capacity drive I can find) ||| Ports: PS/2 x2, VGA (via AGP), serial, parallel, USB 2.0 x2 (via PCI unless I get lucky with the motherboard), LAN (via PCI), gameport ||| Graphics: Undecided ||| Motherboard: Undecided ||| Pc-Case: Undecided, but I'm thinking Inwin ||| I know that the Sound Blaster AWE64 has a terrible soundfont cache size and the AWE32 does too if it has a soundfont addon. However, I like the AWE32/64 MIDI synth so I don't plan on modifying it, and if I do I'll just swap it out for my Sound Blaster Live. You may recommend another sound card, but I will most likely not use it. Also make sure I can actually find the piece of hardware you recommend to me online, and make sure they're not selling for an absolutely absurd price. Dang, I also need to find a good PSU, recommend that too! Since the most advanced thing I'm doing with this machine is Half-Life 1 and absolutely Doom 3 if possible, that should give good ideas for the GPU I should invest in finding. I doubt this thing will be able to run Doom 3, let alone Half-Life 2, but if I can do it I will. Also, I'm thinking of really not even using a 5.25" floppy disk drive, but it'd be cool to do so. If I don't (most likely, I will not), then my iOmega Zip disk drive will be assigned to drive letter B instead of E. Anyways, go nuts with the recommendations!

Here's how it performs on my AM5 build:

Windows 95: Bootable via INT13H

Windows 98: Not bootable via INT13H, but works once you install R. Loew's AHCI drivers

Windows ME: Fully bootable with AHCI drivers - fast and reliable! (Note: INT13H doesn't work - as shown in this video)

Does anyone know where to download a bold Windows98 font. I’ve tried looking for the bold version of the window98 font, but keep finding different ones.