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General discussion (archive)Do the installers work on Windows 98?(22 posts)(22 posts)
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Posted July 24, 2014
Thx to that topic I found that I had Chernobyl on my HDD for about 12 years, just funny fact.
Post edited July 24, 2014 by Trid
Posted July 25, 2014
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darkplanetar: too old, too micro$oft, why not linux with wine...
Can the GOG installers be made to work with Wine? That would be ever so convenient for me.
Posted July 25, 2014
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ChrisSD: Windows 98? O_9

For the love of GOG don't connect that machine to the interwebz...
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timppu: I have two PCs which run (also) Win98SE. They are not meant for internet usage, hence I haven't even installed any network drivers for them (so that I never accidentally try to connect to internet with them). The purpose is simply for running those old games that have problems in newer PCs and even XP, just in case.
I am also doing that. For some games there is really no alternative to get them running other than using a old system... Whenever I use my Win98SE computer I really hope that it will be long time before it breaks down^^
My game that made me realize the need of such a system was "Asghan the Dragonslayer", you can't even install it on a newer system, since as soon as starting the installer the first error message appears.
Posted July 25, 2014
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pakopakojr: Can the GOG installers be made to work with Wine? That would be ever so convenient for me.
I can for my part say that I've never had any problems with GOG installers on Wine. That being said, those were the v1 installers that I tried. Not sure about the v2 ones.
Posted July 25, 2014
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pakopakojr: Can the GOG installers be made to work with Wine? That would be ever so convenient for me.
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jamyskis: I can for my part say that I've never had any problems with GOG installers on Wine. That being said, those were the v1 installers that I tried. Not sure about the v2 ones.
I've had. Can't remember which game, but the installer crashed after some time. It was one of the huger games. But you can get around that starting installer with "/nogui". This is most likely not Wine's fault though. It seems the modern installer GUI leaks memory. WINE has a limit of dangling memory, so it will protectively crash the installer when it reaches the limit.
Post edited July 25, 2014 by astropup
Posted July 25, 2014
Even if the current installes don't work any more on old Windows versions like 98, you can still install Dosbox on your own and start the Dos-games from there. So at least for the old DOS titles you should have no problem to run them on that quaint operating system. ... Or you might even use the DOS mode. Win98 still had that and it even worked sometimes. :-)
Posted July 25, 2014
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darkplanetar: too old, too micro$oft, why not linux with wine...
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pakopakojr: Can the GOG installers be made to work with Wine? That would be ever so convenient for me.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_games_that_are_working_fine_with_linux_wine
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