Do you like any Win98SE games?

[coolpurplefan]

Seriously, it made me wonder when I read a message saying someone was looking for a Win98SE driver for an X600. Do you know of any games that don't play with WinXP? I mean any good games?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I remember the original Rollercoaster Tycoon and the Midtown/Motocross Madness games didn't work right with XP at launch. But they received patches that fixed things up. I wasn't much of a gamer then - these are the only titles I remember that crashed within seconds on XP.

 

[Laminator]

I installed Windows 98SE on a Pentium III machine just so I could play Raptor: Call of the Shadows. That game was very shallow but also very fun, especially when you had the ridiculously powerful twin-blue lasers that killed almost everything in one hit.

SimThemePark doesn't work right with Windows XP. Also, Final Fantasy VII (and possibly VIII) have problems with XP. There is a very good fan-made patch out for VII but the game still crashes periodically.

 

[CP5670]

I have a couple of games with this problem: Time Commando, Nuclear Strike and The Last Dynasty. Time Commando in particular is excellent, although at the same time it's possibly the shortest retail game I've ever played. Maybe System Shock 2 would qualify as well, but that can be made to work on XP with some effort.

I have an old system around for running these troublesome games.

I installed Windows 98SE on a Pentium III machine just so I could play Raptor: Call of the Shadows. That game was very shallow but also very fun, especially when you had the ridiculously powerful twin-blue lasers that killed almost everything in one hit.

That works perfectly in Dosbox. I load it up occasionally. I have kept my original player file from 1995 or something and have racked up almost $900 million on that pilot by now.

 

[Extelleron]

Only games (for the most part) that really aren't going to work in XP or newer are the DOS games. The older Elder Scrolls RPG's were DOS, Arena and Daggerfall are both good games that you can't play on XP or Vista. Both work with Dosbox but it's still a PITA.

 

[apoppin]

i setup a Win98SE partition just to play SystemShock2 ... it could be made to run on Win2K or XP ... but that was the last time i set up Win98 [5 or so years ago]

--now it's Vista and XP ... with XP to 'go' when Vista gets its SP.

 

[Laminator]

Originally posted by: CP5670
That works perfectly in Dosbox. I load it up occasionally. I have kept my original player file from 1995 or something and have racked up almost $900 million on that pilot by now.

I tried using DOSBox at first but I couldn't get it to work. After I had gotten bored of it on the Windows 98SE machine, I tried DOSBox again and got it to work. Too bad I had already wasted all that time setting up the machine...

...it absolutely sucks balls searching online on weird web sites so you can download drivers to a Matrox G200 or Aureal sound card or whatever.

Thanks for reminding me about System Shock 2, by the way, apoppin. I still have the machine so I'll give that a shot (couldn't get it working on XP).

 

[sliderule]

Need for Speed: Porsche Unlimited was fun, but I think you can play it on XP too.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Laminator
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: CP5670
That works perfectly in Dosbox. I load it up occasionally. I have kept my original player file from 1995 or something and have racked up almost $900 million on that pilot by now. </end quote></div>

I tried using DOSBox at first but I couldn't get it to work. After I had gotten bored of it on the Windows 98SE machine, I tried DOSBox again and got it to work. Too bad I had already wasted all that time setting up the machine...

...it absolutely sucks balls searching online on weird web sites so you can download drivers to a Matrox G200 or Aureal sound card or whatever.

Thanks for reminding me about System Shock 2, by the way, apoppin. I still have the machine so I'll give that a shot (couldn't get it working on XP).

Something like VirtualPC 2007 also works well for old win98 games as long as they aren't 3d accelerated.