#win98

[256colormode]

[compassionately]

Nostalgia 98 v1.0.2 Theme by France

(Click to see images) Previews: 1 & 2 Installation: Pastebin & Github

Features:

UI faithful to Win98 (of course)

Custom music player (instructions in code)

Basic links (archive, inbox) in the form of desktop folders, final folder clicks to show another pop-up with 3 custom link buttons

Sidebar, music, link tab, and folders can be clicked and dragged

Sidebar icon, music player and link tab images

5 image options for each folder link

Background, favicon, custom cursor images

Basic color options (text, link, background, selection)

Name input to appear on tabs' header

Custom two-tone tab header gradient

Options:

Custom cursor

Full background image

Heart shaped icon

Circle icon

Bold links

Link glow

Credit and more are included in the code ^_^

[roadworxx]

i've been meaning to post this for a while now, so here it is

The Gateway GP6-400

this is my retro pc setup - a modified gateway gp6-400 from 1999. this model in particular really appealed to me; it's powerful enough to run most games up to around 1998 or so, but it still has fairly realistic performance for a typical gaming pc of that era. i still went ahead and swapped out some parts as well as added some new ones in order to get exactly what i want out of it, however.

here's the specs:

- Pentium II 400mhz

- 128mb RAM

- 250gb HDD (win98 partition only uses 6.4gb for accuracy

- Voodoo3 AGP graphics card

- Integrated Ensoniq AudioPCI audio

- ES1868F ISA audio card for DOS gaming

- DVD-RW drive

- 3.5" floppy drive

- 250mb ZIP drive

on the pc there exist two operating systems: windows 98 second edition and ms-dos 6.2 with windows 3.1. now, you likely find this odd considering that ms-dos 7.1 is already accessible from windows 98, but i reeeally wanted a true early 90s dos experience. so, i have a full installation of dos 6.2 on a separate 425mb partition (the size of a decent hdd from 1994 or so) that i access via boot disk.

as you can also see from the pictures, there's a crt monitor as well: the 17" princeton eo710. it was expensive - well-kept crt monitors tend to be that way unfortunately - but it works wonderfully and the display is gorgeous. i try to keep it at around half brightness and contrast, which can make seeing things in games hard at times, but i really would rather not risk wearing it down lol.

overall, it works splendidly. i'm able to run any games made up to around 2001 or so fairly well, and while there's been issues dealing with stupid win98 bullshit, it hasn't been too bad to work on. it's been a dream of mine to own a computer like this for ages, and now that i finally have one...i'm really happy :)

here's some more pics

the windows 98 desktop:

running dos:

@esselfortium 's KDIKDIZD looking amazing on the crt (it looks so much better in person):

and finally, some half-life along with a better view of the front of the pc:

[contac]

[smbhax]

Win98 Sonic icons, perfect for all your modern Windows needs: https://archive.org/details/miscsonicicons

[stef-brl]

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[nicolemakes]

Today I did some furniture arranging, so behold my 1997 win98 rig and ALPS micro dry MD2010R from 1996. Both getting a full strip and clean with retrobrite and a custom external psu for the printer (the R is for ressurected)

[zon3ss]

Minas Tirith Windows 98 desktop theme

[gef-the-mongoose]

death generators

[train-director]

running windows 98 on hardware that predates me (im so young, i know) using software that postdates me (obs studio)

[cascadeofrp]

I’ve got a couple of old Windows games I’ve been trying to get to run lately, but to no avail. Unfortunately, both games are fairly obscure and there’s little to no information about them, so I’m unable to find much help or advice on getting them running.

The two games are Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur and Crayons Color and Paint Studio.

Here are my Dropbox links for both games, each zipped folder has the files that were on the CD, an ISO of those files, and a BIN and CUE made from the ISO file.

Crayons Color and Paint Studio

Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

I’m not super knowledgeable about getting old games to run, so I haven’t been able to do much, but I wanted to document what I was able to try, just in case.

Also, both games are fairly old, so there’s a chance that something is wrong with the CDs that I’m not aware of.

I’ve also uploaded both games to archive.org: Crayons Color & Paint Studio

REX! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

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Here’s a rundown of what I’ve done that's relevant to both games.

For both games, I’ve tried PCem versions of both Windows 95 and Windows 98.

For Windows 95, I’ve used Windows 95 set up by someone else and I’ve also set it up myself.

With Windows 95 set up by somebody else, I used The Collection Chamber’s setups for Chaos Island: The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Disney’s Active Play: The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, as I also had both of those games and hoped that the setup was similar enough to my old computer. They didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, but there could’ve been something that I missed. (Collection Chamber does excellent work and has gotten quite a few of my old favorites working.)

For Windows 95 set up by me, I mainly used a tutorial done by theoligopolist at olistutorials, and when that didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, I also partially used leonardo’s Windows 95 setup guide at vogons, which also didn’t work for Crayons or Rex, either. (Both guides are very well done and include all the links and everything you need, however, Rex and Crayons both seem to be quite difficult and these setups didn’t work for either of them.)

Windows 98 was much easier, as someone on archive.org uploaded a fully put together version that’s ready to go. However, I also couldn’t get Crayons or Rex to work on it, either.

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Rex! Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur

Problem: Rex appears to install, but when you try to run it, it says that it didn’t install properly and to install it again.

It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember that Rex was hard to get running, I think there’s only been one computer that we’ve had that it ever worked on. I believe that it worked on a Windows 98 computer that had been upgraded from Windows 95.

There’s not a lot out there about Rex, so here’s a few links that I was able to find:

The archive of the first version of Expert Software’s Rex page

The archive of the second version of Expert Software’s Rex page

VirtualPet.com’s summary of the unofficial Rex website

A brief article on GameSpot about Rex coming out

NeverDieMedia’s shop listing that tells more about Rex

Spooky799kil’s YouTube video of Rex working in an emulator

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Good news! I installed Rex in order to get the error message for when I posted it to archive.org, and for some reason, the game started working!

The only thing I did differently was install Crayons to double check that it was still locking up on the menu, then uninstalled it. After that, I installed Rex and it worked!

The virtual machine that it works on is The Collection Chamber’s Disney’s Active Play: The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, which is running PCem.

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Crayons Color and Paint Studio

Problem: Crayons installs just fine, but when you go to pick between the coloring book or the paint program, the program hangs up and freezes, locking up the entire emulator.

The readme says:

"- If you are using this program in Windows 3.1, you must have a printer attached and a printer driver installed.  If you do not, you may receive an error message that will than lock you out of the program."

I haven’t tried to install it in Windows 3.1, but since the game locked up on both Windows 95 and Windows 98, I thought that maybe the lack of a printer was the problem, so that’s the route I took for trying to get it to work. (I haven’t gotten an error message, though, just the program freezing up.)

I looked for a virtual printer, and landed on Doro PDF Writer. There’s some others out there, but they required more steps, so I decided to try the easy one first.

I kept running into a problem with getting it to install on Windows 95 (I had a missing file that was being very stubborn about being fixed), so I pivoted to Windows 98 and it installed nicely. However, this didn’t fix the problem, and Crayons keeps locking up.

I believe that Crayons worked on a Windows 98 computer that was upgraded from Windows 95 and I think that I was able to get it installed on a Windows XP computer later.

There’s even less information about Crayons then Rex out there, there’s been a couple of Reddit threads of people trying to find the name of the program.

The archived version of Expert Software’s page on Crayons is bafflingly wrong, only mentioning the coloring book part and also a screensaver that doesn’t seem to come with the version of the program I have

geogeo222 posted the soundtrack to Crayons on YouTube

KHInsider uploaded the soundtrack to their website and opened up a forum thread for it

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Thanks for reading all of this! I hope that one day these programs will be playable again. If anybody has any luck or advice for getting them running, I’d love to hear about it! Thanks!

[pressanykeytocontinue]

[isanosworld]

Cave Story on Windows 98

Pardon my shitty gameplay, I'm not really used to these controls as I am using a French keyboard, so wherever the W key is, it is in the place of the Z key, making it awkward to control

Surprised at how smoof the game run tho. Could legit play it like any other game

Wonder what other game I should try out?

[morozeslisho]

[mvfm-25]

" You build it. You deal with it! "

PC Accelerator n06 - February, 1999

[kadunud]