I’m definitely a fan of #RetroComputing, but my allegiance clearly lies with #Apple rather than #Microsoft. My old PCs run #Linux or #Haiku, but I get what retro #Windows peeps want. So, if you want to install #Windows98 quickly, here you go. #tech #howto #utilities https://boingboing.net/2025/03/31/how-to-install-windows-98-asap.html
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@256 I can only imagine how cool it would look to have a 9-monitor #Windows98 setup with CRTs of different sizes, in a half-organized manner (like the setup in #CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs)
Kleiner #Zeitsnack für Zwischendurch:
Mit dem #Windows98 Disk #Defrag Simulator und ein bißchen Nostalgie einfach dem Alltagsstress entfliehen. 
www.heise.de/news/Web-Tip...
Web-Tipps: Nostalgische Auszei...
Bluesky SocialBluesky
Ok... THIS is the last addition to this build then 
Picked up one of those GBA shaped retro handhelds and had to do what I do and immediately made a Windows 98 theme for it. #retrohandheld #windows98 #gameboy
It's 1996... On your Windows 95 computer, a warning appears when starting a game that says...
"You appear to have Dial-Up Networking enabled.
For best performance, you should exit Road Rash and disable Dial-Up Networking."
Of all the things to be asked to disable for performance 
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Frechheit, da fehlen doch "Mystery", "Leonardo", "Nature" und weitere, hab die Sounds hier gefunden:
Windows sounds · Windows 98 soundsThese sounds came from Windows 98. Windows 98 was very rich for sound schemes out of the box and had separate sounds for almost every event. These amazing
The Whole List of #Windows98 sounds (with Microsoft Plus! sounds)
https://archive.org/details/windows98microsoftplus-sounds/w98sounds/Jungle+Windows+Exit.wav
AI Language Model runs on a Windows 98 System with Pentium II and 128MB of RAM.
EXO Labs has penned a detailed blog post about running Llama on Windows 98 and demonstrated a rather powerful AI large language model (LLM) running on a 26-year-old Windows 98 Pentium II PC in a brief video on social media.
![[ImageSource: EXO Labs]
The photo shows an ancient Elonex Pentium II @ 350 MHz booting into Windows 98, and then EXO then fires up its custom pure C inference engine based on Andrej Karpathy's Llama2.c and asks the LLM to generate a story about Sleepy Joe. Amazingly, it works, with the story being generated at a very respectable pace.
As readers might expect, it was trivial for EXO to pick up an old Windows 98 PC from eBay as the foundation of this project, but there were many hurdles to overcome. EXO explains that getting data onto the old Elonex branded Pentium II was a challenge, making them resort to using "good old FTP" for file transfers via the ancient machine's Ethernet port.
Compiling modern code for Windows 98 was probably a greater challenge. EXO was glad to find Andrej Karpathy's llama2.c, which can be summarized as "700 lines of pure C that can run inference on models with Llama 2 architecture." With this resource and the old Borland C++ 5.02 IDE and compiler (plus a few minor tweaks), the code could be made into a Windows 98-compatible executable and run. Here's a GitHub link to the finished code.
<https://github.com/exo-explore/llama98.c>](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/007/818/095/381/670/original/c284de1b1f5ba725.png "[ImageSource: EXO Labs]
The photo shows an ancient Elonex Pentium II @ 350 MHz booting into Windows 98, and then EXO then fires up its custom pure C inference engine based on Andrej Karpathy's Llama2.c and asks the LLM to generate a story about Sleepy Joe. Amazingly, it works, with the story being generated at a very respectable pace.
As readers might expect, it was trivial for EXO to pick up an old Windows 98 PC from eBay as the foundation of this project, but there were many hurdles to overcome. EXO explains that getting data onto the old Elonex branded Pentium II was a challenge, making them resort to using \"good old FTP\" for file transfers via the ancient machine's Ethernet port.
Compiling modern code for Windows 98 was probably a greater challenge. EXO was glad to find Andrej Karpathy's llama2.c, which can be summarized as \"700 lines of pure C that can run inference on models with Llama 2 architecture.\" With this resource and the old Borland C++ 5.02 IDE and compiler (plus a few minor tweaks), the code could be made into a Windows 98-compatible executable and run. Here's a GitHub link to the finished code.
<https://github.com/exo-explore/llama98.c>")
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Finally copied it all, saved to my own laptop and left with hers for her to copy.
I'm sure others would have an easier way to this, but I felt accomplished that I got it done.
6/6
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Couldn't find the hardware detection program so turned it off and on again. Hardware detected, searched for driver on that CD.
Not found.
Huh?
Oh.
Copied to hard drive and ran as executable and searched again.
Winner!
I 
love love The Internet Archive!
Tried to copy and nothing would copy. Then realized I was trying to copy on wrong part of the USB drive.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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Turned it off.
And remembered the Internet Archive https://archive.org
Maybe they had older drivers?
Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.
Found one that seemed promising.
Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.
Copied from CD to Windows98.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
And remembered the Internet Archive https://archive.org
Maybe they had older drivers?
Searched and used CTL-F to search for USB mentions in each old Windows98 page I used. Downloaded a few that might have it.
Found one that seemed promising.
Extracted it on my current laptop. Burned it to CD.
Copied from CD to Windows98.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
5/?
archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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So I tried the wifi dongle to connect to wireless. Probably too old to connect to modern wifi. Got an ethernet cord out. No ethernet port to connect.
Turned it off and on again, hoping Puppy Linux would detect it.
Nope.
Turned it off and on again, hoping Windows98 would detect it.
Yes!
But no driver!
Oh, fiddlesticks.
Maybe I could get a USB 3.5 floppy to USB reader? Or take it to a computer repair place?
Turned it off.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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So tried to copy to USB in the USB port in the back. No USB Flash drives could be read. And I don't have a floppy drive in my current desktop or laptop.
Then I found older USB Flash drives. I found one that was only 512mb and thought that maybe it could be read.
Couldn't be found in Puppy Linux. Windows98 didn't find it.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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Long thread. 
Found old 3.5 floppy 
disk.. 20 unused, 3 of my wife's used. One of them with old family recipes on it.
Then found an old laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 320cdt I'd forgotten I'd had. Windows98 and a version of Puppy GNU/Linux on it.
Floppy drive worked.
Oh, this should be easy.
Tried to burn a copy of her floppies to a CD. Kept failing. Copied to the hard drive in both OSes.
#z_lib #Software #qa_computer #computer #Windows98 #PuppyLinux
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Hat etwas merkwürdiges das Windows 98 SE-Setup im Vollbild auf einem 27-Zoll 4K-Monitor laufen zu sehen …
Screenshot of the Microsoft Windows 98 website as it appeared on September 1, 2004
Discord Messanger for #Windows98 #Windows95 #Windows2000
https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm
GitHubGitHub - DiscordMessenger/dm: Discord Messenger is a free Discord-compatible messaging client that works on almost 30 years of Windows.Discord Messenger is a free Discord-compatible messaging client that works on almost 30 years of Windows. - DiscordMessenger/dm