Getting a Windows 98 game to run on modern windows

[vulcanlogician]

What he said.  You can get windows versions from 7 onwards to emulate previous versions.  

I have a laptop with Windows 7 that is set up to emulate XP, 2000, and 98se.  What you do is set up a virtual machine, which creates a subenvironment and lets you open a window in which you can install and run previous versions of Windows.  Then you install your legacy software via that virtual machine window.

Doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's not too bad -- maybe 95%.

For windows 7:

https://microsoft-virtual-pc.en.softonic.com/

For later versions:

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Have fun.

I think I'm going to go this route. I am the sort of gamer who would go for setting up an old machine, but that's a very time-consuming ordeal. Hopefully virtualbox will allow me to run the game.