Installing Windows 98 on a Modern Laptop

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Join me on my quest to keep old software alive despite the ever-changing landscape of PC hardware! Will Windows 98 thrive on a system made twenty years later, or will it be more like an old man trying to figure out TikTok? Let's find out together!
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I tried to sync up the CRT refresh rate with the camera shutter speed and this was the best I could get, I have a feeling the camera's 1/60 is actually more like 1/59.3242 or something. Also I wonder how well those specs for "your $3,000 gaming rig" will age lul. Also sorry about the weird mic noises in some of the clips in the second half, I was trying a new recording setup and it sucks.
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@RiteshRajbhandari-lp 3 года назад

I just had a thought. This can be implemented as such a huge prank. Imagine buying a $1500 gaming pc and when you boot it up, you are greeted with "Microsoft Windows Version 3.00"

@first-last557 3 года назад

one and a half million dollars for a pc

@RiteshRajbhandari-lp 3 года назад

@@first-last557 shit. I meant...like $1500. 0r $1.5k. I was super sleep-deprived when I wrote this

@murpi338 3 года назад

@@RiteshRajbhandari-lp Oh God $1,500,000

@RiteshRajbhandari-lp 3 года назад

@@murpi338 I'm sorry, I really am. God, that comment was one huge train-wreck. Please stop it I'm already dead

@l3xi_con 3 года назад

@@RiteshRajbhandari-lp edit the comment then

@Aposn-rg1pz 5 лет назад

2080: installing windows 10 pro on a modern computer

@harshithooda19 5 лет назад

And still it gets updates

@adventureoflinkmk2 5 лет назад

Yeah, I'd imagine win10 getting updated and still relevant even that far out... although I'm likely to not see 2080, but still

@Aposn-rg1pz 5 лет назад

adventureoflinkmk2 lmao 😂😂😂

@adventureoflinkmk2 5 лет назад

On a side note, I wonder if anyone will remember the Intel 8086 some 6,000 or more years from now... 8086: intel year!!!

@matthewpepperl 5 лет назад

you could see 2080 depending on how old you are and if you are willing to go cyborg or even further than that because that tech will likely be here before 2080 :) @@adventureoflinkmk2

@koseki_stuff 3 года назад

4050: installing windows 78 onto a modern door

@fart1234. 3 года назад

8946:installing windows 1037 on a human

@ojaskashyap5839 2 года назад

Year 10,000,000,000:- installing windows 69420 on a modern universe

@fart1234. 2 года назад

2025:Installing windows 11 onto a windows 10 pc without tpm2.0

@fung5233andskystairs 2 года назад

@@fart1234. already can on 2021(although it just a preview…

@vlad552 2 года назад

Installing windows 10 on 1973 computer

@Bisqwit 4 года назад

That audio joke at 6:50 was wonderful.

@kewlguy 4 года назад

Bisqwit wait

@acheers 3 года назад

i agree

@swordcrafted 3 года назад

i agree

@Saikiran-pf1ry 3 года назад

Bisqwitttt!!!!!!

@markusTegelane 3 года назад

Yeet

@eduardoavila646 5 лет назад

Computer: Hey OS we have 8gb of ram, is that enough for you? Windows 98: *Wait that's illegal!*

@Sonjayu 4 года назад

it was always so comical to me how windows calls some errors "illegal operations"

@damian9303 4 года назад

._.

@shlomo18 4 года назад

MaxPhysPage=B3000 that's illegal😉

@eduardoavila646 4 года назад

@@Sonjayu True, like its illegal to have exceptions

@eduardoavila646 4 года назад

@Crystaldabber 77 Oh a typo, i'm sorry

@jijipoid 4 года назад

Your 98 machine looks exactly like my first PC ever. Almost makes me miss it. It was a trooper that pc. I kinda wish i didn't have to get rid of it.

@ExotericTar 3 года назад

@xexpaguette 2 года назад

rip

@Gladuos1 2 года назад

Bro same, seeing these old videos brings back memories I forgot I had. lmao

@Recordeer Год назад

Why did you get rid of it?

@Gmodfan750 Год назад

@@Recordeer He probably didn't have a enough space to fit it anywhere.

@sparkswolverine 3 года назад

Windows '95 and '98 are so nostalgic. The good ol' times of technology.

@DireBowser 3 года назад

What happened to 96 and 7?

@rovhalt6650 3 года назад

@@DireBowser They werent a thing

@DireBowser 3 года назад

@@rovhalt6650 it was a joke

@RealGMane 3 года назад

@@DireBowser What happened to windows 96,97,99 and 9

@rovhalt6650 3 года назад

@@DireBowser sorry. these days its getting difficult to tell if people are serious or not

@jongbong 4 года назад

I remember I hated my classmate Vico for hitting on my crush so I went to the library and changed the desktop screensavers to all the computers to a scrolling text that reads "Vico loves Ricky Martin." He became a laughing stock. Until now, he had no idea who did that!

@Pay4Zay 3 года назад

That has to be the most 1990 shit I’ve ever heard right out of a 90s movie y’all really did that type of shit?😂😂😂

@rovhalt6650 3 года назад

Duuude that's perfect!

@jongbong 2 года назад

@NALTO sadly no. 😔

@kkmac7247 2 года назад

@@jongbong 😔

@mrneptune64 2 года назад

@@jongbong 😔

@magburner 4 года назад

Windows 98 thought my 32gb of ram was the hard rive.

@wozahh 4 года назад

lmao

@enurzia6918 4 года назад

1gb would be considered a luxury hard drive back in the day (not that i was around)

@ezioauditoredafirenze8352 4 года назад

Heehhehhee 🤣🤣🤣

@JerryDodge 4 года назад

[Win98] Damn, that's a huge hard drive!

@AIversonI 4 года назад

I always remember going to look at PC's back in the day when 8MB was the average amount of ram people had, went and looked at a PC that had 24MB and we were like WOAH!!!! Thought she was insane lmao

@filippk14 5 лет назад

The touchpad works because it connects through the PS/2 interface

@user-tm3fz7qx3s 5 лет назад

I was going to say that lol!

@rayzen_undogen 5 лет назад

@@user-tm3fz7qx3s me too

@wiatrakx 5 лет назад

Well....actually...I think it's because of the FreeDOS Preinstalled drivers, I'm also installing Windows 98 to USB Stick and I could move my USB Mouse around.

@tyrellwreleck4226 5 лет назад

touchpad doesn't work on windows server 2012

@deadbox2003 5 лет назад

@@tyrellwreleck4226 because it is made for servers and servers doesn't have touch pad

@SearInMinecraft 4 года назад

6:51 this is my favorite part

@GOALSANDMUSIC100 4 года назад

fascinating to see someone bringing us old timers windows into view thank you so much for your video it was lovely watching this today so refreshing to see these videos, much love!

@Mastakilla91 4 года назад

I still remember how my then best friend got a new computer with Windows 98. Man it was everything you have been hoping for. I got my first computer later in 2000 with a 933 Mhz Pentium 3 and Windows Me(h), but it had Age of Empires 2 bundled with it. I played the shit out of it. Man time sure does fly...today we have access to everything but it's not as fun as it was back then when you were restricted. It was much sweeter.

@retrobit5973 4 года назад

Sometimes, when freedom cease to exist, it sure is crisis. But when you look back, it hits you back. P.S:- I never have been good at poetry or the whole wide expansion of English Literature.

@frederickdietz3148 4 года назад

@@retrobit5973 please never speak again.

@frederickdietz3148 4 года назад

Aoe was awesome.

@retrobit5973 4 года назад

@@frederickdietz3148 Oh come on, that was my best work!

@gergelyguruz8843 4 года назад

Still remember spending endless hours playing heroes of might and magic and tge the original xcom with my neighbor on a win98 pc.

@ephemeralic9648 5 лет назад

id like to see the ultimate 98 rig

@MattKC 5 лет назад

👀

@starman8853 5 лет назад

Same

@PasaiShere 5 лет назад

me2

@OfficialRainsynth 5 лет назад

Yee.

@fabianstern2315 5 лет назад

Go for it.

@muhammadabdullahwaseem3040 2 года назад

This basically sums up my experience when i first got into linux. More specifically arch. When it did install and work i cried tears of happiness

@babicunlo3638 11 месяцев назад

I too, use Arch btw.

@thezipcreator 11 месяцев назад

tbf, that *is* arch. debian's installation process is much simpler

@real2w10 3 года назад

7:35 *WE WILL BUILD A GREAT WALL ALONG WINDOWS*

@ShippoHsu 2 года назад

@John 29Barr lmao

@__penny_2472 4 года назад

Win98: tries to show desktop Matt: hmm seems suspicious Win98: BSoD Matt: Ah thats more like it!

@CyrilViXP 4 года назад

__Penny_ bless you

@sealy009 Год назад

average windows 98 install

@CarsandCats Год назад

@@sealy009 I just installed Win 98 a couple days ago and everything went perfectly. Then I tried to install SP2 and it ate itself halfway through.

@sealy009 Год назад

@@CarsandCats what the fuck do you mean by ate did you just eat the computer in half

@diegooespinozaa 4 года назад

This was surprisingly entertaining. Loved your humor and editing. Subbed.

@crimzn8813 3 года назад

Same

@AndreiAgpasa 3 года назад

@@crimzn8813 same

@tomtv8394 3 года назад

Shut up no one cares

@onlinemario. 3 года назад

@@tomtv8394 no u

@tomtv8394 3 года назад

Mario Batinić shut the fuck up dumb ass kid

@roampro 4 года назад

I was so anti-upgrade when ME/2k came out... I rode the 98 wave as long as I could, then ironically did exactly the same with XP... I literally did everything possible to avoid upgrading. The openness of the old OS's was so appealing to me. Everything seemed to become so much harder to do as OS's were updated.

@Ricardo5911jakakak 2 года назад

I kinda agree with you, I'm not upgrading from windows 10, win 11 looks shit

@nikkiofthevalley 2 года назад

@@Ricardo5911jakakak Well, Windows literally forces you to update. So not much we can do there

@Gladuos1 2 года назад

Yall can always learn Linux if you don't mind not playing some games. aha

@xBINARYGODx Месяц назад

there is nothing harder about doing things on W11 vs Vista or XP - in fact, you likely can do it easier now (for anything you might want to do today, as aposed to something from way back when you want to do now for the nestalgia and not the actual use of it, if you get what I mean).

@usamahjacobs9203 3 года назад

your videos are so great and extremely creative ! keep it up man

@shikhanshu 5 лет назад

what an awesome video.. the sense of humor, the music, the timing, content, everything is very entertaining.. great job!!

@KamenPhilip 4 года назад

Few things to mention. You CAN make the USB work in Windows 98, there are universal USB storage drivers available. Also you can play with Novell Netware for DOS/Windows, ODI drivers were universal at that time and theoretically could work with any Ethernet adapter. Also there were all sort of audio drivers and tweaks that can make your Windows sound-aware, even using the internal speaker. Not that all this is worth the effort. :)

@therealprofessor976 3 месяца назад

I'm interested

@BowserN64 8 месяцев назад

I love your humor and editing style. That was a really entertaining and informative video. Keep up the good work!

@DaniDanMaster 2 года назад

These videos are so entertaining I find myself rewatching them a lot

@altairtodescatto 5 лет назад

>8gb ram >windows 98: Is that 1mb of ram?

@eduardoavila646 5 лет назад

Computer: *hey OS, we have here 8gb of ram, is that enough for you?* Windows 98: 8kb? Hell no!

@WellBeSerious12 5 лет назад

@@eduardoavila646 SOMEONE MAKE THIS MEME!

@eduardoavila646 4 года назад

@@WellBeSerious12 YES PLX

@eduardoavila646 4 года назад

@MrNúmero98 I could swore it was 16mb, and 4mb for 95. I think that 98 only ran with 8mb of ram with a special boot option, something like /nmv

@sakariaskarlsson634 4 года назад

No its 20 gb of RAM. 20480 megabytes. 21474836480 bytes. Lol

@nickg.4504 4 года назад

Definitely one of the most underrated channels I’ve ever seen. Really interesting stuff! 😄

@stevensmith6094 2 года назад

Your editing style and sfx dropins had me literally lolling. Nice job, Dude.

@Goultek 4 года назад

Hardware: We have 8GB ram, 1TB SSD drive, Blue ray drive... Windows 98: What is this witchery !?

@IndigoGollum 3 года назад

Imagine having any disc drive. *Cries in disk driveless computers*

@ananttiwari1337 3 года назад

@@IndigoGollum So, you run your PC on a floppy? A USB?

@binkhowell8242 3 года назад

1TB Solid State Drive Drive, blue ra- wait what? ATM machine:

@Yessir1506 2 года назад

@@IndigoGollum CDs for computer are not that popular but still used back in 1998

@mica7191 2 года назад

Did work for me in VirtualBox... though... was sluggish with 512 MB ram

@windestruct 4 года назад

Windows acts weird when system memory bypasses 1GB

@kewlguy 3 года назад

it sure does

@johnmurcott1273 3 года назад

someone told this to the IT dept. at my school

@gmdking 2 года назад

I am definitely having problems with 32 Gigabytes.

@timg2727 4 года назад

Dude, you deserve way much than 5k subs. Awesome video! The editing and humor are both on point.

@Tugezu 2 года назад

man. this was such awesome video because this helped me s LOT on installing windows 98 on actual hardware! Thank you!!

@thebirdman3898 2 года назад

I’m currently restoring a windows 98 computer I found in a dumpster

@alexradu1921 5 лет назад

LOL CAN'T BELIEVE U HAV 1K SUBS... This video is so well-made, I thought u have at least 100k subs. Keep going, man! Your content is way too good & entertaining.

@CanadianBakin42O 5 лет назад

So? I have 1.8k subs. More than him.

@irnomo9784 5 лет назад

@@CanadianBakin42O he is 2.2 now

@GBrayJ 5 лет назад

2.2 now..

@nadimonsy5069 5 лет назад

2.6

@narwhalestorm9881 5 лет назад

3.6

@timjardim3483 5 лет назад

Came for the cool Windows 98 video, left with a great video editor-Sweet!

@likezoinks2739 3 года назад

This reminds me of the time I had to help my great grandma set up her windows XP for the first time since like the late 70's.

@jonathanlilje6869 3 года назад

This video was so helpful. I am installing Windows 98 on hardware WITH Windows 98 support and the graphics driver had me completely stumped. Thanks for that. Bummer about the audio. The sound of Windows 98 / 95 starting up is... Well it's worth having sound. Thank you for this video.

@RationalSlave 4 года назад

12:28 that "bell voice" was strangely nostalgic!

@Heopful 4 года назад

Opening chime of John Lennon's "Mother" ?

@Aquarirus 4 года назад

@@Heopful *_P U R P L E M A S H M A Z E G A M E_*

@UmohowetYelayu 4 года назад

OMG!!! Desktop Themes! I loved those! The ones shown in the video were among my favorites! Talk about a shot of nostalgia! Geez!

@ErikB750 4 года назад

Didn't it come with a Plus package or something. The 'in the computer' theme was my favorite for a long time.

@mikemurphy8714 8 месяцев назад

I'm trying to keep up with how you're doing this but I can't because you're videos are hilarious and making me laugh too much with all the silliness...love it.

@name_not_avail6708 3 года назад

Dude your videos and channel are great!

@AaronCarson14 5 лет назад

Video got recommended to me and I'm so glad it was! Super funny and great content 🙌 subscribed 💃

@beedslolkuntus2070 5 лет назад

Yeah, how did it get recommended to me too, this guy has 840 Subs only

@dumbtruccc 4 года назад

How dare you not have more subscribers? I've watched almost all your videos in one day and your content is amazing! I hope to see more content like this at some point :)

@thevalleyy Год назад

Damn. Installed it on my old laptop from 2014. Was definitely worth it! Thank you for your little guide to follow!

@salamanderavem3782 2 года назад

Im a history nerd and this brings me so much joy This is less of a weird concept and more of a tutorial to further drive my obsession

@Naeou 4 года назад

you're a really good story teller! I'm not a tech person, just came for the nostalgia and didn't expect to stick around for the whole video, but i did cuz damn you're so entertaining! I had fun despite not knowing what you were talking about ahaha 😅 also love your accent! 👌🏽

@seshpenguin 5 лет назад

Ohhhh boy this is exactly the kind of video I want.

@shashibala7382 3 года назад

Enjoyed 😉 the entire video from start to end.

@shivrajjamgade726 3 года назад

Just a few days ago I watched a video where the RU-vidr installs windows 98 on that era's hardware and I thought why would someone go through that many efforts required to gather the hardware instead of just installing the OS on modern hardware. Matt's hardships answer that .

@rebokfleetfoot 5 лет назад

brilliant troubleshooting by the way, very few have the skill and determination to do that

@ChemiiOneLegacy 4 года назад

I remember doing these setups back in the day as part of my first job when I was 16 and let me tell you 36 minutes estimated for installing the O/S is hilarious. Used to take up to 4 hours per PC in some cases. Funny how people jumped from Windows 98 to Windows XP but no one talks about Windows ME or Windows 2000.

@michamarkowski2204 4 года назад

It was similiar with XP - on some PCs it took 30-40 minutes to install, on other 3-6 hours. As to not talking about ME or 2000, the latter was for workstations, not for PCs, so not many people had even seen it (my first contact was in 2012, when I had to make a new medical treadmill work with an old medical workstation). I don't know, how it was in the west, but in a country from the Warsaw Pact replacing OS every 2-3 years was not an option because it was too expensive. That's why most PCs had Windows 98 SE, Windows 98 or even Windows 95 installed until XP-era. I've seen ME only once, when my younger cousins got a PC and I was asked to set it up. There was a preinstalled Windows ME and it crashed (BSOD) 15 minutes after first launch. After 2-3 hours I've installed them Windows 98 SE and I wasn't needed until they wanted me to install Windows XP on their PC.

@ChemiiOneLegacy 4 года назад

@@michamarkowski2204 It was the same around here for a little while, many companies would run old operating systems through fear of breaking things. I remember servicing a very large Bank and they had Windows NT on some work stations around 2003-4 and hospitals or local GP's were the same. Around 2000 was when they started to produce factory built PCs to sell to every day families and that created Windows Millennium Edition, companies like Time PC or Tiny PC eventually most of these went bust. ME barely ever worked, we always used to install 98SE over it for reliability. Good times, I found it more interesting working with PC's in that era. I can't stand Windows 10.

@andrew_koala2974 3 года назад

ChemiiOneLegacy Windows ME was not for me. Windows 2000 certainly was. I stayed with Windows XP for quite a while before jumping onto the Windows 7 Bandwaggon. Windows XP was easier to customize than Windows 7, besides which I had to write my own Scanner drivers for Windows XP to use the $1500 UMAX Scanner, which worked very well, and I was not about to start writing a driver to make the scanner work on Windows 7, which made me stay with XP. I have since written drivers for the UMAX scanner for Windows 7 and Windows 10 64 bit, and the scanner sits unused. Being a 3 pass scanner it is slow.

@luuk3213 3 года назад

@@michamarkowski2204 it took like 5 minutes on my VM

@kaylynn4750 Месяц назад

I’m glad I got to the end and found out about the video editing program! I’m stoked! I’m tired of paying for Adobe Premiere! I hope an official version comes out in the near future!

@user-sg3ss8bl3f 3 года назад

I'm happy to see that another Windows ME computer still alive, good job man keep the computer alive there are not many else in the world 😯

@typingcat 4 года назад

A guy installs Windows 98. This is what happened to his computer.

@free_boiling4502 4 года назад

Haha

@TheFatdemon3 4 года назад

Medical Monday’s reference??

@LZ2SM 4 года назад

nice one xD

@catsbyondrepair 4 года назад

Control alt fucked

@morgankasper5227 4 года назад

a guy installs a virus. this is what happened to his PC.

@kiritgupta 5 лет назад

How do you only have 2K subs?? Your content and presentation is awesome! Please do consider making a win98 build on cherrypicked mid 2000s hardware.

@AmRFuKYaH 5 лет назад

Because only 2k users clicked the little red subscribe button on this channel.

@abergethirty 5 лет назад

They rolled their eyes at the hacky anti- trump joke and didn't bother. People who Brexit in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

@cln5510 11 месяцев назад

What fhe tuck

@Vlad-1986 4 года назад

Hey, I think I know about the battery usage: Old DOS didn't really use interrupts for the CPU, so they where 100% even while idle (wonders of having really low power hungry processors). Windows 98 actually supported power management, only detects it automatically in APM machines... You can force the setup option /p j and force ACPI and that high juicy battery life (not compatible with Windows 95)

@Clod15 3 года назад

Loved the video! :D

@TheDeelunatic 4 года назад

Windows 98 is slow on modern hardware because of the way that Windows 98 manages RAM and CPU. It doesn't have a proper "Idle" process so it populates 100% the CPU at full bore at all times, whether it's used or not. So it freaks out when it sees way more RAM than it expects to run on. Windows 98 on a PC from the late days of XP and early days of Vista would be about the limit since they are normally had about 1 GB of RAM at the lowest would be about the limit of what could be effectively ran. If you add an app that applies the Idle process, it will run properly. something about ACPI or something like that has to be fixed to make it work right. Virtualbox has this issue as well. Heck a Netbook makes Windows 98 run like lightning. but that's because most only came with 1 GB and had low resolution screens.

@xheralt 4 года назад

Or use a 3rd-party Memory Manager from the era; I used a program called RamIDLE back in the day. I think it's still available for free download, actually...

@TheDeelunatic 4 года назад

@@xheralt same idea, but I couldn't remember what one of the programs were called.

@thingshappen9199 3 года назад

Where can i even get a full copy of Win98?

@TheDeelunatic 3 года назад

@@thingshappen9199 legit, Amazon, ebay, not so legit, check out WinWorldpc.com, really not legit, look for torents.

@thingshappen9199 3 года назад

@@TheDeelunatic winworld? The thing is, what if there's malware packed with it? And does it come with a key?

@RiasatSalminSami 4 года назад

12:18 Its simply ray tracing now that it has modern hardware.

@therealvbw 3 года назад

DLSS lol

@basantatamang2249 Год назад

How many seconds per frame ?

@RiasatSalminSami Год назад

@@basantatamang2249 1600$ per frame if Nvidia keeps increasing GPU price.

@laszlopeterbalazs8040 3 года назад

Ah man, you just brought some nostalgia! I did the same thing when I was 16, also run windows 7 on a dual Pentium II server.

@phillipswanepoel6124 17 дней назад

been stuck with this error for months.. you are f*ing brilliant!

@PhilSowden 5 лет назад

Love the Megaman soundtrack in the background. \m/

@AbdAbdAbdAbd 5 лет назад

I want to say, Thank you for not talking about olive at the beginning of the video and not wasting time.

@NoodleCollie 4 года назад

Came for the Windows 98 nostalgia, got excited by an open source video editor?? Good work, sir.

@eac-ox2ly 2 года назад

Damn, thank you for working on and recommending the Olive video editor at the end of the video. Looks like a really great FOSS editor! I'll give it a try.

@TheClickbaiterYT 5 лет назад

minesweeper the game that no one knew how to play but played anyway

@xyzzy-dv6te 4 года назад

years later, when I used the internet to discover how it works, I played it on my grandma's computer with XP

@douglaslane6184 4 года назад

Actually, once you learn it, it isn't that bad.

@douglaslane6184 4 года назад

Lmao I still use ethernet to this day. Its faster and more reliable.

@xyzzy-dv6te 4 года назад

@@douglaslane6184 I still use ethernet on my PC, if your PC is stationary, there is no reason to use wi-fi over ethernet

@cannedbeverage7687 4 года назад

First time I played it I thought the goal was to explode the bombs.

@anshulagrawal5202 4 года назад

Thanks man, for refreshing old memories. I have installed the damm Windows 98 so many times those days, that it was like a ritual for me to find a PC and format it. And also Realtek AC97 Audio Driver

@CraigB801 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! The 064MB driver (140214) fixed my display issue on my 98 install on a mid-2000's laptop!

@ffatheranderson 4 года назад

18:20 😁 the same. Computer’s motherboard theme was one of my favorite....

@Nonexistanthuman 4 года назад

It would be interesting to see you install all the windows discs or revisions up to the modern windows 10 from windows 98

@laynesamba 5 лет назад

I agree with your theory. The best machine for window 98 is a 3+ghz pentium 4.

@adventureoflinkmk2 5 лет назад

Good thing I got a P4HT with a SATA SSD...

@PistigriloXP 5 лет назад

Or an Athlon 64 Socket 754.

@nunovyobeeswax4177 5 лет назад

SOYO Skydragon with AMD Athlon

@mtunayucer 4 года назад

Pentium 3 1ghz and 3dfx voodoo3 is probably the max you should use with era appropiate games.

@Delta295 4 года назад

I have a windows xp pc with 1gb ram and pentium d

@mattblatchley2061 3 года назад

nicely done!

@DhinCardoso 2 года назад

Instant sub & like! ♥ found your channel by accident

@khhnator 4 года назад

i'm disappointed that "running in the 90's" was not being played in the background

@stevebarrows6043 4 года назад

Matt, Thanks! This was a cool video. I remember LOVING windows 98 and hated the change up 2000. Have you tried windows 7 on a modern, with maybe a partitioned drive? At any rate I stumbled across this video and found it entertaining and educational... and nostalgic. You do a good job of explaining and really follow through. I will subscribe to your channel as I think you have a lot of talent and creativity and personality, I expect to find more worthwhile videos. Hopefully you'll gain some sort of payback in the future. I cant imagine monetizing on youtube is bringing in much cash. BUT if I'm wrong... MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT!, then maybe I'll give youtube monetizing a shot also. Keep it up!

@bencheshire 3 года назад

i admire your persistence and skillz

@eski___7435 3 года назад

Whelp. There goes my afternoon. Great content!

@eski___7435 3 года назад

@@liukang3545 you sound mad.

@eski___7435 3 года назад

@@liukang3545 again you seem very mad 😃😃😃

@Spreadie 5 лет назад

You can hack the registry to make some Win2K drivers work on Win98. It is literally a case of installing the driver and the editing the registry entries to rename references to Win2k as Win98. It was discovered as a way to get older hardware to run in 2k but surprisingly, it worked in reverse in many cases. Don't ask for a link - I found the instructions on a BBS back in the day and had to print them out. LOL

@Jahades 4 года назад

The good old days when you could literally brute force Windows to do what you wanted

@SerandibBroadcast 4 года назад

My father bought me my first PC back in 2004. It was a Intel Pentium 4, some 2. ghz (doesn't have a clear memory on that part) With 256 MB Ram and 64 MB AMD graphic card. Had dual boot with Windows XP and Windows 98. XP for me , 98 for my father since he is bit of old school. Man I played games, learned many stuff on that little machine man. It is pretty nostalgic for even to hear the word Windows 98 now. Thanks for the video.

@ausrider99 4 года назад

Lucky you. I had a 386sx 16mhz with 1MB ram and 40MB Hdd in 1990.

@aaron_333 4 года назад

My dad bought us an 8088 clone, 640 kB was all we needed. It had a 10 MB hard drive too.

@ausrider99 4 года назад

And my father bought us an abacus. Top that.

@SerandibBroadcast 4 года назад

@@ausrider99 dude those days, I learned about your stuff. seriously man times move way fast

@SerandibBroadcast 4 года назад

@@aaron_333 when was that?

@gp3328 3 года назад

You'll never know why this has likes

@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 3 года назад

Windows 10 sad face I see

@gp3328 3 года назад

@@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 it should really say in the bsod, ERROR-HAPPINESS-MANAGEMENT Windows can no longer smile.

@silentantagonist2333 3 года назад

I can't tell if this is a shitpost or not, but Y E S.

@portablerefrigerator4902 3 года назад

Shut up quirky teenage girl trash

@largeboi4678 3 года назад

@@portablerefrigerator4902 If the only reason that you’re mad at this comment is because they said a word that is used in a lot of memes then maybe you should get off the internet

@Coookiiiiiiee 3 года назад

Wow home resonance knocked it out of the park for me. Welcome to the realm, my favorite RU-vid channels lol not that being the favorite of some nobody on the internet should mean anything to you, but I felt the need to tell you that nonetheless

@Retrohertz 3 года назад

Wtf

@harddriveYT 5 лет назад

There's an setting in the display options where you can change the native PPI of the OS from 72 to 96. That would make the text more readable on high res display.

@tessjdt 4 года назад

"I know that because Rufus knows that" - It's 6am here and I almost spit out my coffee laughing! :D

@TuxHouseEdu 3 года назад

I have tried too on my ThinkPad X250 a few years ago, with no result hahah. Thanks for sharing!!1

@michaeltrey2248 3 года назад

I remember changing the curser every day on windows 98, and my parents would get so irritated for some reason, lol. I continued to do so for years, and eventually they got used to it.

@junko4166 4 года назад

This feels like an old JonTron video. I love it.

@zc32-official 4 года назад

7:35 We will build a great wall along *W I N D O W S*

@sbunny8 4 года назад

and make Apple pay for it

@saadmanmahfuz 3 года назад

and let samsung advertise it

@ChalkPanther 4 года назад

i love your video, it’s hilarious. xD

@mintybudgie Год назад

ngl this guy is my favorite youtuber but i wish there was more windows content

@Dukect 5 лет назад

A very good video I have an a modern computer trying to use Windows 98 any chance you going to think about going to XP or heck even Windows 3.1. now that would be an interesting video in the future. Anyway keep up the good work

@MattKC 5 лет назад

I could certainly be tempted to make videos in that vein 👀

@tminusblastedrocket 5 лет назад

The install process for 3.1 is pretty simple install freedos the new one not the old one use the second option on startup copy the 3.1 install floppies to a USB flash drive go to the USB flash drive in dos and do the installation pretty simple do not use the Rufus freedos it's old as crap

@davidokeif8304 5 лет назад

If he went with Win 3.1, the DOS NIC driver would probably work.

@mcan-piano4718 5 лет назад

Yess please do about XPPP, I love it

@jeffhousen8968 5 лет назад

the downside to xp is Microsoft carefully removed the activation from their options, so while you can get it to run, it will always be "not genuine" getting it to run is not much of an issue, still new enough

@Jewsh 5 лет назад

1:51 Actually it is possible to have up to 3.3 GB of RAM in Windows 98 (like in any 32-bit Windows). Back in 2008, some hacking was done in Germany on a third-party Windows 98 memory patch to remove elements of copy-protection or proprietary installation and convert the files into fully portable, fully distributable working versions. In early 2014, some mention of these hacked files was made on certain english-language web-forums, and the link from which these files could be downloaded was discovered. The files in question are replacements for VMM32.vxd and VMM.vxd. They allow Windows 98 to boot and run on systems with huge amounts of RAM, and make use of up to 3.3 GB of RAM. I myself had installed Windows 98 on a machine with 20 GB of RAM and it's been running with little to no problems. The only side-effect of using these files as-is, is that when you get BSOD errors, the text of the errors is written in German, and not English. Here is a link to these files (vmm98sed.zip): www.freora.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=license_result&gid=3&bid=3&Itemid=52

@alan93 4 года назад

VERY entertaining and informative. I found myself here after trying to plug an old QUANTUM 5.4 BIGFOOT HDD with Win98 into a T5082 eMachine (came with vista but now has win7). After getting the typical errors about out of memory and initialization blah blah , I thought I had a chance....until I saw your creative tutorial video. Sigh, I guess it's on to VB now. My reason for trying to get this to work is to play an old USNV97 CDRom game that used to play flawlessly on an old 1995 home built system until I got a strange low battery error on boot up. And the motherboard had NO battery. It must have been built into one of the chips. Seriously though, thanks for making this video . You are a funny, creative, and knowledgeable utuber. I wish you were my neighbor.

@kylejoyce80 2 года назад

Meanwhile me wiping my c drive accidentally trying to dual boot with ubuntu

@orlandokaraoke3002 5 лет назад

Clear type came along with windows xp if I recall correctly. Which would be just as fun to play around with 😊

@nathanhosey1278 5 лет назад

Which version of 98 did you use? There was a huge difference between editions. Nothing ever worked on first edition I worked tech support way back then, and we wouldn't touch any machine that didn't have SE.

@prodnarcix 4 года назад

this showed up in my recommended one day and when u advertised ur editing software that was free i was skeptical but after using it a few times it’s so good. thanks for making that shit.

@TheIndogamer 4 года назад

I've been thinking of this for quite a long time

@SteelRhinoXpress 4 года назад

Ms should make windows 9x open source and watch the flood gates open for modern hardware support.

@DMack6464 4 года назад

they wouldn't release source code for actually good software they've made, then they would lose all the money they would make on their shittier Windows 10!

@AdrianKilgour 4 года назад

@@DMack6464 Windows 9.x is DOS so i don't think anyone would be switching to that anytime soon

@DMack6464 4 года назад

@@AdrianKilgour people could make hacks for it that add support for modern programs tho, maybe even better/more modern generic drivers and modern RAM support!

@AdrianKilgour 4 года назад

@@DMack6464 Hmm makes sense. I wouldn't be using Windows 10 if they still supported old software.