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Kookoo

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#3487994 6-May-2026 09:48

Oooh, this brings back memories. My cousin was a QA team lead at Microsoft for Windows ME. It was a fantastic experience - it made him re-evaluate his life, go back to uni and find something else much more interesting in life to do.

Hello, Ground!

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#3487997 6-May-2026 09:50

Rikkitic:

[Thank goodness I skipped ME and 2000!

2000 is still my favourite from DOS through to today.

Spirax

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#3488000 6-May-2026 10:09

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I am working thru some of the options.

I have been to the Dell website and find there are no Win 98 drivers for this mboard. The oldest drivers listed are for Win XP.

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#3488062 6-May-2026 13:02

Spirax:

On a nostalgia trip trying to install Windows 98. Have tried 98SE and 98 1st edition but both hang on some unidentified (at least to me) hardware problem.

It depends what your goal is, is it to play with Win98 or to make a specific machine run Win98 natively?

I would recommend installing Win98 in a virtual PC like VirtualBox or similar. The advantage is that the virtual machine will abstract the hardware into more common types and lets you change how those hardware devices are emulated. You can run the virtual machine on top of Linux and then still get the Win98 experience within the virtual environment.

You can play with the configuration of the set of emulated devices to find a match for what the installation already supports.

That said, however, unless you treat the environment as completely stand alone it is completely useless on the modern internet, the SSL protocols won't be supported and plain HTTP just puts you at risk. If you have a specific program that requires Win98 and does not need networking then you may have success, but I expect the nostalgia will wear off fairly quickly.

A while ago I was playing with OS/2 and built a couple of tools to aid file transfer between environments once simple TCP/IP was configured. bucket and bucket-client, this allowed me to use basic REST calls to upload and download files using a very primitive JRE. You might also want to look at something like curl-windows98

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#3488064 6-May-2026 13:33

I grew to dread dealing with Windows NT 4 Workstation and Windows NT4 Server, both of which were either totally reliable (yay!!), or would regularly blue screen even if you just looked at them the wrong way, or you failed to say good morning to them politely in the morning at startup.

Windows 98... hmm, that I could cope with. Win 98 brings back memories of virtual drivers (VxD's ??) and blue screens that were sometimes easy to recover from without having to lose all unsaved data in whatever you were working on at the time.

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#3488188 6-May-2026 17:37

Spirax:

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I am working thru some of the options.

I have been to the Dell website and find there are no Win 98 drivers for this mboard. The oldest drivers listed are for Win XP.

is there any 98 drivers for the chipset?

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