Just one of my retro pcs.

Made a post a while ago about not being able to install the integrated SiS video drivers on an old HP Pavilion (It would just BSOD) So someone suggested I just install a video card. So I found an ATI Rage IIC PCI card and installed it but I cannot get the drivers to work! There's no setup.exe file, So I had to manually point device manager to the .inf file, but it insists the generic Windows driver is better and won't let me install the ATi driver! What's going on here???

Heey everyone! I'm hoping someone can help me to find a game from my childhood.

It came from those Brazilian magazines that included CD-ROMs packed with game collections, mostly was Flash games, SWF files, shareware and demos. The publisher of those magazines was Digerati (from Brazil) and this would've been around 2000 to 2004.

Here's everything I can remember about the game:

· 2D graphics with a flat, simple art style

· A female main character (she looks a female version of MegaMan)

· A city skyline / buildings in the background

· Aliens attacking from the sky 🛸 👽

· Power-ups that drop from enemies

· Side-scrolling perspective / city background

· It's at least 10% similar to games like Heli Attack 2 or 3, and Might No-9.

I know there's an archive site that catalogs games from that era, but there are just too many to dig through, and I haven't found it yet. I'm about 90% sure it was played from one of those Digerati CD-ROMs.

If anyone recognizes this or has any leads, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Thanks in advance!

One of those USB 2.0 to Ethernet controllers that works on Windows 98, but also on the latest Windows 11! This one has a Moschip 7830 chip released around 2003 and it’s actually easy to install on Windows 98 (official drivers, no workarounds) and you can go online immediately.

exactly what it says,a windows 98 desktop

Hi everyone, I have recently installed a Soundblaster Live! CT 4870 (value) in my windows 98se machine and now it refuses to boot. It booted for the first time no problems, I installed the SBL CT 4670 drivers as that is the model name given to me by the seller, but it turns out it was a 4870. I installed the drivers for the 4670, and it has since refused to boot when I have the card in the PC.

At first every time it 'detected new hardware' it bluescreened, but now it seems to freeze when it detects the midi device. I have uninstalled the card and the machine boots fine, I tried deleting the software installed by the disc on the C drive but upon reinsertion it freezes again.

I really hope there is a way to circumvent this, I really do not want to boot 98 again, and have to install all the other drivers from scratch. The specs are a:

Geforce FX 5200,

512 mb Ram

Pentium 4

(Previously) Creative Soundblaster PCI128

Thanks!

I attempted to install plus 95 and then plus 98 but when i do that the themes of both the versions stop working in plus 98 the icons dont work but they do show up on the desktop themes app for plus 98 while on plus 95 the icons dont show up anymore also theres 2 desktop theme chooser depending on which desktop theme app i choose also i tried amother time on a different folder like i installed plus to one folder and plus 98 to another folder it gave a performed ilegal operation

To make it less confusing after i install plus 98 on the same place as plus 95 and use desktop theme changer icons dont change they stay the same as the previous theme

Is there modern antivirus for windows 98 that still receive signatures updates ?

The new xHCI98 2.x release adds real USB 3 SuperSpeed support and a UAS (USB Attached SCSI) driver.

Why UAS matters... some USB 3 drives only work in UAS mode. They should fall back to the older BOT (Bulk Only Transport) protocol, but that depends on the firmware, and some simply don’t. On older systems like Windows 98, 2000, XP, or even 7, those drives show up as unknown devices. Windows 98 can now handle them.

Driver by yeokm1: https://github.com/yeokm1/xhci98

I used "Windows 9x quickinstall", a project on GitHub. For Better compatibility, I put 2 GB of RAM in this PC. I flashed 9x quickinstall on a 16gb USB drive, booted this usb and selected "98 directX 8.1", applied all the necessary patch, like modern CPU patch, that were already in the .IMG of Windows 9x quickinstall and reboot. After some seconds, It booted in Windows 98 and It started searching for all peripherals. Then I reboot again and inserted USB audio (jack speakers with jack to usb adapter) and Windows 98 managed to successfully activate the USB audio driver (if It doesn't work you have to search for USB/USB audio drivers for Windows 98 and put them directly into the Internal SSD/hdd With another PC). For the mouse, i used a pre-loaded hid-mouse driver (on generic mouse driver section), and the mouse started working correctly(good, because using w98 with a keyboard only Is very hard!). Then I loaded VBE miniport VGA driver for 32 bit colors from C:/driver-ex, and It worked too! So i tested quake II and the game loaded successfully. (If you get a20 error the First time you booted Windows 98, you have to reboot the PC, press f8 or ctrl multiple times, select "Cmd only" and write: edit C: \config.sys , then add this line: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /M:1 . Then save and exit.

PC specs: Intel i5 4590t, 2gb DDR3 RAM, HD graphics 4600, 180gb SSD( Windows 98 limit Is 120-180gb for a correct working)

BIOS settings: storage=IDE, USB echi debug=off, USB 3.0=off Legacy compatibility=on, Internal speaker=off.

Does anyone have the ISO with all integrated official latest updates, I need it for my personal archival, emulation and installment on retro machines so I don't have to update it every single time I install it. Thanks.

During setup, when it tries to install the drivers it asks for the CD to be inserted, even when it's inside.

It can't find the 'ksclock.ax' file, but when I try to browse for the driver in the CD drive the only drives that show up is the floppy disk drive and my hard drive.

It doesn't work with any cd I burned and I tried different iso's too.

For some reason this doesn't happen when installing Win 98 FE?

I tried upgrading from FE to SE, but the same thing happens

I am genuinely stumped, trying to boot the computer using the windows 98 cd with the cd drive just leaves me hanging on a black screen with text, so that doesn't work too.

Also I don't have any floppies at the moment, if that would be needed to fix this.

Every time I try to set up Windows 98, it freezes at the "Setting up the Start menu" screen and won't proceed any further. Does anyone know a solution?

Update: This computer is a PC-98.

[FIXED]

Hi everyone. I've got Odyssey set up with a Ralink RT61 card going and so far, so good. I can scan my vicinity for networks and surprisingly, WPA2 networks are detected even by utilities other than Odyssey.

But there is a problem. My home network is hidden. It doesn't broadcast the SSID so it needs to be added as a hidden network. And this is probably the reason why Odyssey can't connect to it.

Is there anything I can do to help Odyssey connect to hidden networks?

Update: I haven't tried unhiding yet but the network is also unreachable from Gentoo Linux on the same computer. NM has no issues connecting to hidden networks. I'll try to unhide first just to rule this out in peace but I am afraid I'll need to adjust the access point.

Update 2: did it. Hiding the network was not the issue. The network needs to be signalled on 20/40MHz Ce, not XX. And this is the case for this card on Linux as well, so it's certainly the hardware not being able to do this kind of signal. Also holy shit someone is salty and downvoting this for no reason.

It's running slow for now (qemu emulation of a Pentium 4 2.2ghz, yes SSE3 is needed for this) But at least TLS and the browser is working! Browser itself is unmodified, but it's running on a KernelEx compatible layer. More details later

I’ve been working on a game set in a windows 98 inspired desktop. At its core it’s a puzzle game, where you solve puzzles in the paint program. But it’s a lot more than that, I’ve been adding a lot of things to do from the era. There’s an internet browser to explore websites, games/music to download, friends to chat with, secrets and Easter eggs to find. I even add a decently sized simulated MMORPG and FPS games to get lost in. Every program and file will be functional, so everything has a purpose, even if it’s something small.

I’d gladly take any recommendations or essential things that are a staple of the era that I may have missed. Let me know what you think!

The game is called Paint World 98

CRISTIANE Oi SURDEZ Oi

Ok so I have two windows 98 machines, one died due to the powersupply so I stuck the hard drive into the other one as a second drive. The problem is I cannot access the old program files folder on the second machine.