The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives

I know you're desperately wondering about the floppy drives in this Maingear Retro98 desktop. Back in the day, when Windows ...
TweakTown

eXoWin9x lets you play over 650 Windows 95 and Windows 98 games from a single 262GB launcher

TL;DR: eXoWin9x Vol. 1 offers a 263GB collection of 662 fully emulated classic Windows 95-98 games, including DOOM II, Diablo, and SimCity 2000. Featuring easy setup, multiplayer support, and ...
PC Gamer

Modder builds Windows 98 handheld gaming PC with Intel Pentium inside

I'm partial to builds with a retrofuturistic flair, particularly palmtop projects that imagine a portable past that never existed. Taking a leaf from the 'Windows where it shouldn't be' chapter out of ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again

Talk about a powerful faux pas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A company that's been around as long as Microsoft will inevitably ...
GitHub

A simple WIndows 98 themed suite for Rainmeter

Spotify music player displaying the title and artist of the current song, as well as the total length of the song and the current timestamp. Requires the ...
GitHub

Windows 98 SE / ME Mouse Driver Patch to remove DOS speed bugs and mouse acceleration

The patch is a 32-bit windows application that runs on anything from 95 to 11. 01 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 7F 0x3910 (98SE) / 0x3110 ...
Liliputing

Lilbits: Another dual-screen handheld game console, a DIY Windows 98 “handheld” and Snapdragon’s slightly-faster Snapdragon 7S

The makers of the AYN Odin line of handheld game consoles has revealed that its next model will be a dual-screen model with a clamshell design. In other words, the upcoming AYN Thor will go ...
Game Rant

Concept Imagines What Steam Would Have Looked Like on Windows 98

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...
TechSpot

Discord now runs on Windows 98 (and even Windows 95) with this unofficial client

In brief: It's now possible to run a barebones version of Discord on legacy Microsoft operating systems including Windows 98 (and even Windows 95, if you're willing to jump through a few extra hoops).
TechSpot

LLaMA language model tamed by ancient Windows 98 computer with 128MB RAM

In brief: A group of artificial intelligence researchers has demonstrated running a powerful AI language model on a Windows 98 machine. And we're not talking about just any old PC, but a vintage ...
CNET

Windows 98 to debut at $109

Ending months of speculation, Microsoft today confirmed many key details regarding Windows 98, the planned upgrade to its ubiquitous Windows 95 operating system. Windows 98 will officially roll out on ...