#win98
Errrrrrr where the FUCK is Win98 Tech???????
November 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Kala paint is finally available on linux.
You can set the ui to win98. I already love this
November 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
An incremental game on an isolated Win98 desktop: catch alien frequencies, decrypt the files, and spend what you earn on better dishes and decoders. A short one.

UFO98 by Shadowgate Interactive · Steam page
#indiegame #incremental #retro #simulation #steam
November 10, 2026 at 1:11 PM
RedHat, lasted 2-3 weeks, before a Win98 update destroyed Lilo.
November 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
this is wild considering i encountered the style in: windows xp, and immediately set it to look like Win98 because i felt it was too candy-colored and childlike
November 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
the faux win98 window chrome is a very nice touch
November 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
There is a part of me that wants IGF frozen in amber in 2002 as the kind of competition where something like Bad Milk, made by a first time developer who was inspired by a Bill Viola video art exhibition, wins the Grand Prize. youtu.be/Bf_lVEFFMKs?...
BADMILK (2000) [PC-CD][Win98] LONGPLAY
YouTube video by Hfric`s Gaming Backlog
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November 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
at this stage, it heavily resembles the first few Fallout games, with a pseudo 3D view over prerendered areas and a point and click UI. This sequence is very vertical slice, as parts seem to not work yet (to say nothing of the fact that it crashes - it did not on the win98 PC I had at the time).
November 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they just wanted the last win98 tech support all to themselves 😔
November 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
November 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
i mean i love win98 but let’s not pretend it isn’t very buggy
November 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I got a steal recently on an AMD thinkpad.
I know they arent as nice as the old ones that run intel, but i actually wanted it for work and i like the linux compatability and stability.

Still want one for win98/freedos though. Just for fun
November 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM
UFO98
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5153220/
$6.15

UFO98 is a retro incremental simulation game set on an isolated Win98 desktop. Decrypt encrypted alien signals, leak top-secret files, and defy an oppressive government to awaken humanity to the truth.
November 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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November 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
win98?ぐらいに入ってた途中でクマが横からエントリーしてきて死んで終わるスキーゲームあれクリアできるの
November 7, 2026 at 4:14 AM
usb support for win98 is often real janky sadly, cause of how new usb was at the time - you may have to search for better drivers, it took me a few tries to find stable drivers

i hugely prefer transferring stuff over FTP on LAN, but i haven't yet found a tiny FTP server that works on win98...
November 6, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Sadly after that whole mess I can’t seem to get either of my X800s to work. The X800AIW won’t display anything other than 640x480 under Win98, the X800 XL just locks the system up solid.

I’m just…gonna go back to my 6600 GT and stop trying to push my luck because yeahhhh.
November 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM
i tried to emulate (we are on ARM macOS) Win98 to run some of this old stuff but it was excruciatingly slow. i couldn't get these VB apps to run on our Win11 ARM VM either. maybe i'd have better luck with a Win98 VM on the steam deck?
November 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Decent point, but they gave those things out for free. Mailed them to your house without you asking even. Also they failed miserably. My librarian mother and I were later able to use a CueCat and a Win98 laptop to digitize a rural school's library
November 3, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Worst case scenario, at least for the basic bundled-with-windows games like minesweeper and solitaire and whatnot, I *should* be able to clean-sheet them myself with an 86box win98 VM to play the games myself again, and a whole lotta note-taking about the games' logic and fussing over SVGs to […]
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November 7, 2026 at 10:29 PM
うひょーなぜそんなところに…懐かしのペイント…
デジタルイラスト黎明期win98、まだペンタブも無くて、マウス使ってペイントツールでカチカチ描いていたの思い出す。
November 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM
We were pretty resourceful and had a bunch of IBM clones. Started off with some 386 like the first pic.

Second one was -my- PC. Had a bottom of the barrel Pentium II processor with just enough MHz to play video and FMV. (233 MHz, if y'nasty.)

My FurryMUCK machine dual booting Win98 and Slackware 8
November 4, 2026 at 12:46 AM