A young developer who never used Windows 98 back in the day stumbled upon an introductory book on the operating system and posted his impressions on skimming it, which brought him joy. He wrote:
"I was also left with the impression that perhaps I would like more software to come with a physical manual."
Worst idea ever? Using Windows 98 as an embedded operating system for an oscilloscope. It takes five minutes for the oscilloscope to boot. DID YOU NOT NOTICE THAT, TEKTRONIX? Anyway... Yeah. I fell sorry for the engineer who had to implement that idea. #RetroTechnology#EmbeddedSystems#BadIdea#Windows98
Status update: My retro PC is waiting for a new IDE cable, otherwise it's working🖥️ I'm working towards to upgrade my streaming setup to 4K60. #windows98#retro#gaming#streamer
Have you ever tried emulating #Windows98 on a #Ryzen system and had it crash spectacularly? Just within the last year or so, someone's written a patch for 95/98/98SE to fix it!
There's a floppy image you can boot your VM from, which will patch and fix your Win9x install even if it's partially installed and you hit the Explorer crash, so it doesn't even matter hugely where/when in the installation process you apply it. https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x/releases/
Software emulation, at least the way DOSBox-X goes about it, doesn't run into this issue - that's actually been one of the easiest ways to run 9x for a while, in fact it's the best way I've found to play Fire Fight today!
Here's my collection of turn-of-the-millennium computers, either gotten second hand or literally rescued from the garbage. Since 2023 marked the 25 year anniversary of Windows 98, my goal is to turn one of these into my ultimate retro machine that plays all my childhood computer games.
Two out of these three have non-functional hard drives, so my first step is to choose one, add a compact flash reader and see if I can get Windows 98 installed!
It's difficult to get bug fixes and updates for early versions of Windows such as 95, 98, and NT 4.0. A new independent project called Windows Update Restored (http://windowsupdaterestored.com) is hosting lightly modified versions of old Windows Update sites and the update files themselves, so that fresh installs of these old operating systems can get years' worth of fixes that aren't present on old install CDs and floppies.
The Windows Update Restored site is a lightly modified version of Microsoft's original code, and the site itself doesn't use any kind of SSL or TLS encryption, so older Internet Explorer versions can still access it without modification.
You'll need at least Internet Explorer 5 to access the Windows Update Restored update sites (and download links to IE5 and IE5.5 in all supported languages are linked there).
"We've developed a complicated setup where we have modern #Linux :linux: servers running a virtual environment with an #emulator of the old #OperatingSystem".