Want to put Windows 98 in my xp.. help me!

[avrame]

If you have a game you can't get working with DOSbox and such, you may need to invest $50 and buy an old machine.

Thats one thing I love about PC gaming, there is rarely a surcharge or inflated price for older games or hardware

[Erik_Twice]

DosBox is the program youa re looking for. If the game runs too fast or too slow remember you can increse the MHz of the emulated machine.

Note that you will only be able to emulate up to early pentium machines with Dosbox but some later games (PII era, for example) won't work on newer machines. Those games are few and between but they exist.

I should so buy a new 486, for nostalgia.

[gtmtnbiker]

You need these virtual programs everyone's talking about here. (DOSbox, VirtualPC, etc.)

Virtual PC works pretty well. I have Windows 7 so Virtual PC only supports XP and newer. If you have XP, you can get Virtual PC 2004 which supports 95/98/2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC

[Hatta]

There's also VMWare, which is free of charge and supports 9x.

[arion]

It's true Windows 98 does cannot handle more thank 512mb of ram during install unless you edit a config file which i have only heard about but never really tried.

However after installing Win98 you can install patches such as the Unofficial Service pack which updates a lot of things in win98 including support for 1gb of ram.

If you are going to dual boot your maching read carefully about how you do that espcially if you have a single hd. And make backups before just in case something goes amiss.

And also make sure you can find win9x drivers for your sound and video card. And then there is the dos compatability of your sound card if it's an onboard sound card you can't be sure how well it works until you try it. And i would recommend to anyone that's setting up a win98 machine to use a Sound Blaster Live card. It has great sound for midi and has great support soundblaster 16.

What it means is you will get sound support for older dos games and when available you can use supperior midi music for later games.

[BoringSupreez]

If I were you, I would install Windows 98 SE rather than 95, 98 has a wider range of stuff it can run, has perfect DOS emulation because it's not really emulation, it's real DOS, 98 is easier to find patches for, and 98 can run every program ever made for 95, while the opposite is not always true.

[Anapan]

Agreed with above - if dual booting to a 9x system go with Windows 98se and install these updates:
98SE unofficial service pack 2.1a
98SE Generic Mass Storage driver
DirectX 9.0c released on December 8 2006
Firefox 2.0.0.20

2 pages I bookmarked but haven't tried yet:
KernelEx is supposed to let you run XP-only programs in Windows 98:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/
ERPMan's 9X&ME service pack page
http://erpman1.tripod.com/w9xmeupd.html

I found a portable version of Virtual PC 6.0 / 2007 that runs great in XP. I have several operating systems set up on it.

[BoringSupreez]

If you have a game you can't get working with DOSbox and such, you may need to invest $50 and buy an old machine.

Thats one thing I love about PC gaming, there is rarely a surcharge or inflated price for older games or hardware

That's true of every genre except early and mid-90's point and click games. That, and original issue early-90's ID Software games.

[Hobie-wan]

There are some games that don't work on XP simply because of stupid copy protection. Slave Zero itself works fine with XP, but the copy protection doesn't. I own the game, so had no qualms about fetching a no CD crack. Game worked fine after that. NT Compatible is a good resource too. http://www.ntcompatible.com/

[arion]

Agreed with above - if dual booting to a 9x system go with Windows 98se and install these updates:
98SE unofficial service pack 2.1a
98SE Generic Mass Storage driver
DirectX 9.0c released on December 8 2006
Firefox 2.0.0.20

2 pages I bookmarked but haven't tried yet:
KernelEx is supposed to let you run XP-only programs in Windows 98:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/
ERPMan's 9X&ME service pack page
http://erpman1.tripod.com/w9xmeupd.html

I found a portable version of Virtual PC 6.0 / 2007 that runs great in XP. I have several operating systems set up on it.

Kernel ex does allow a lot of nt programs to run on 98 such as firefox 3 flash 10 works also due to kernelex.

In fact i did use windows 98 as a main operating system for quite some time recently due to the fact there are lot of updates available official or otherwise.