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Getting a Windows 98 game to run on modern windows

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Getting a Windows 98 game to run on modern windows
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RE: Getting a Windows 98 game to run on modern windows
January 15, 2019 at 6:57 am
Windows 98 relies on BIOS to access the hard drive during booting. That can't be done with hard drives bigger than around 7.5 GB. If you insert a Windows 98 boot-disk into a modern computer, the FDISK can't even detect the hard drive (I've tried that myself).
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RE: Getting a Windows 98 game to run on modern windows - by FlatAssembler - January 15, 2019 at 6:57 am

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