Installing Windows 98 on a Modern Laptop

Join me on my quest to keep old software alive despite the ever-changing landscape of PC hardware! Will Windows 98 thrive on a system made twenty years later, or will it be more like an old man trying to figure out TikTok? Let's find out together!
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[@Aposn-rg1pz]

2080: installing windows 10 pro on a modern computer

[@harshithooda19]

And still it gets updates

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Yeah, I'd imagine win10 getting updated and still relevant even that far out... although I'm likely to not see 2080, but still

[@Aposn-rg1pz]

adventureoflinkmk2 lmao 😂😂😂

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

On a side note, I wonder if anyone will remember the Intel 8086 some 6,000 or more years from now... 8086: intel year!!!

[@matthewpepperl]

you could see 2080 depending on how old you are and if you are willing to go cyborg or even further than that because that tech will likely be here before 2080 :) @@adventureoflinkmk2

[@RiteshRajbhandari-lp]

I just had a thought. This can be implemented as such a huge prank. Imagine buying a $1500 gaming pc and when you boot it up, you are greeted with "Microsoft Windows Version 3.00"

[@first-last557]

one and a half million dollars for a pc

[@RiteshRajbhandari-lp]

@@first-last557 shit. I meant...like $1500. 0r $1.5k. I was super sleep-deprived when I wrote this

[@murpi338]

@@RiteshRajbhandari-lp Oh God $1,500,000

[@RiteshRajbhandari-lp]

@@murpi338 I'm sorry, I really am. God, that comment was one huge train-wreck. Please stop it I'm already dead

[@l3xi_con]

@@RiteshRajbhandari-lp edit the comment then

[@koseki_stuff]

4050: installing windows 78 onto a modern door

[@fart1234.]

8946:installing windows 1037 on a human

[@ojaskashyap5839]

Year 10,000,000,000:- installing windows 69420 on a modern universe

[@fart1234.]

2025:Installing windows 11 onto a windows 10 pc without tpm2.0

[@fung5233andskystairs]

@@fart1234. already can on 2021(although it just a preview…

[@vlad552]

Installing windows 10 on 1973 computer

[@eduardoavila646]

Computer: Hey OS we have 8gb of ram, is that enough for you? Windows 98: *Wait that's illegal!*

[@Sonjayu]

it was always so comical to me how windows calls some errors "illegal operations"

[@damian9303]

._.

[@shlomo18]

MaxPhysPage=B3000 that's illegal😉

[@eduardoavila646]

@@Sonjayu True, like its illegal to have exceptions

[@eduardoavila646]

@Crystaldabber 77 Oh a typo, i'm sorry

[@jijipoid]

Your 98 machine looks exactly like my first PC ever. Almost makes me miss it. It was a trooper that pc. I kinda wish i didn't have to get rid of it.

[@ExotericTar]

F

[@xexpaguette]

rip

[@Gladuos1]

Bro same, seeing these old videos brings back memories I forgot I had. lmao

[@Recordeer]

Why did you get rid of it?

[@Gmodfan750]

@@Recordeer He probably didn't have a enough space to fit it anywhere.

[@jongbong]

I remember I hated my classmate Vico for hitting on my crush so I went to the library and changed the desktop screensavers to all the computers to a scrolling text that reads "Vico loves Ricky Martin." He became a laughing stock. Until now, he had no idea who did that!

[@Pay4Zay]

That has to be the most 1990 shit I’ve ever heard right out of a 90s movie y’all really did that type of shit?😂😂😂

[@rovhalt6650]

Duuude that's perfect!

[@jongbong]

@NALTO sadly no. 😔

[@kkmac7247]

@@jongbong 😔

[@mrneptune64]

@@jongbong 😔

[@__penny_2472]

Win98: tries to show desktop Matt: hmm seems suspicious Win98: BSoD Matt: Ah thats more like it!

[@CyrilViXP]

__Penny_ bless you

[@sealy009]

average windows 98 install

[@CarsandCats]

@@sealy009 I just installed Win 98 a couple days ago and everything went perfectly. Then I tried to install SP2 and it ate itself halfway through.

[@sealy009]

@@CarsandCats what the fuck do you mean by ate did you just eat the computer in half

[@magburner]

Windows 98 thought my 32gb of ram was the hard rive.

[@wozahh]

lmao

[@enurzia6918]

1gb would be considered a luxury hard drive back in the day (not that i was around)

[@ezioauditoredafirenze8352]

Heehhehhee 🤣🤣🤣

[@JerryDodge]

[Win98] Damn, that's a huge hard drive!

[@AIversonI]

I always remember going to look at PC's back in the day when 8MB was the average amount of ram people had, went and looked at a PC that had 24MB and we were like WOAH!!!! Thought she was insane lmao

[@tweetingsparks]

Windows '95 and '98 are so nostalgic. The good ol' times of technology.

[@DireBowser]

What happened to 96 and 7?

[@rovhalt6650]

@@DireBowser They werent a thing

[@DireBowser]

@@rovhalt6650 it was a joke

[@RealGMane]

@@DireBowser What happened to windows 96,97,99 and 9

[@rovhalt6650]

@@DireBowser sorry. these days its getting difficult to tell if people are serious or not

[@Bisqwit]

That audio joke at 6:50 was wonderful.

[@kewlguy]

Bisqwit wait

[@acheers]

i agree

[@swordcrafted]

i agree

[@Saikiran-pf1ry]

Bisqwitttt!!!!!!

[@markusTegelane]

Yeet

[@filippk14]

The touchpad works because it connects through the PS/2 interface

[@user-tm3fz7qx3s]

I was going to say that lol!

[@ivyflow3r]

@@user-tm3fz7qx3s me too

[@wiatrakx]

Well....actually...I think it's because of the FreeDOS Preinstalled drivers, I'm also installing Windows 98 to USB Stick and I could move my USB Mouse around.

[@tyrellwreleck4226]

touchpad doesn't work on windows server 2012

[@deadbox2003]

@@tyrellwreleck4226 because it is made for servers and servers doesn't have touch pad

[@GOALSANDMUSIC100]

fascinating to see someone bringing us old timers windows into view thank you so much for your video it was lovely watching this today so refreshing to see these videos, much love!

[@Mastakilla91]

I still remember how my then best friend got a new computer with Windows 98. Man it was everything you have been hoping for. I got my first computer later in 2000 with a 933 Mhz Pentium 3 and Windows Me(h), but it had Age of Empires 2 bundled with it. I played the shit out of it. Man time sure does fly...today we have access to everything but it's not as fun as it was back then when you were restricted. It was much sweeter.

[@retrobit5973]

Sometimes, when freedom cease to exist, it sure is crisis. But when you look back, it hits you back. P.S:- I never have been good at poetry or the whole wide expansion of English Literature.

[@frederickdietz3148]

@@retrobit5973 please never speak again.

[@frederickdietz3148]

Aoe was awesome.

[@retrobit5973]

@@frederickdietz3148 Oh come on, that was my best work!

[@gergelyguruz8843]

Still remember spending endless hours playing heroes of might and magic and tge the original xcom with my neighbor on a win98 pc.

[@ephemeralic9648]

id like to see the ultimate 98 rig

[@MattKC]

👀

[@starman8853]

Same

[@PasaiShere]

me2

[@OfficialRainsynth]

Yee.

[@fabianstern2315]

Go for it.

[@muhammadabdullahwaseem3040]

This basically sums up my experience when i first got into linux. More specifically arch. When it did install and work i cried tears of happiness

[@babicunlo3638]

I too, use Arch btw.

[@thezipcreator]

tbf, that *is* arch. debian's installation process is much simpler

[@diegooespinozaa]

This was surprisingly entertaining. Loved your humor and editing. Subbed.

[@crimzn8813]

Same

[@AndreiAgpasa]

@@crimzn8813 same

[@tomtv8394]

Shut up no one cares

[@onlinemario.]

@@tomtv8394 no u

[@tomtv8394]

Mario Batinić shut the fuck up dumb ass kid

[@atf_1414]

>8gb ram >windows 98: Is that 1mb of ram?

[@eduardoavila646]

Computer: *hey OS, we have here 8gb of ram, is that enough for you?* Windows 98: 8kb? Hell no!

[@WellBeSerious12]

​@@eduardoavila646 SOMEONE MAKE THIS MEME!

[@eduardoavila646]

@@WellBeSerious12 YES PLX

[@eduardoavila646]

@MrNúmero98 I could swore it was 16mb, and 4mb for 95. I think that 98 only ran with 8mb of ram with a special boot option, something like /nmv

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

No its 20 gb of RAM. 20480 megabytes. 21474836480 bytes. Lol

[@roampro]

I was so anti-upgrade when ME/2k came out... I rode the 98 wave as long as I could, then ironically did exactly the same with XP... I literally did everything possible to avoid upgrading. The openness of the old OS's was so appealing to me. Everything seemed to become so much harder to do as OS's were updated.

[@Ricardo5911jakakak]

I kinda agree with you, I'm not upgrading from windows 10, win 11 looks shit

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@Ricardo5911jakakak Well, Windows literally forces you to update. So not much we can do there

[@Gladuos1]

Yall can always learn Linux if you don't mind not playing some games. aha

[@xBINARYGODx]

there is nothing harder about doing things on W11 vs Vista or XP - in fact, you likely can do it easier now (for anything you might want to do today, as aposed to something from way back when you want to do now for the nestalgia and not the actual use of it, if you get what I mean).

[@edwardlariviere9710]

@@Ricardo5911jakakak win 11 is a dumpster fire

[@shikhanshu]

what an awesome video.. the sense of humor, the music, the timing, content, everything is very entertaining.. great job!!

[@typingcat]

A guy installs Windows 98. This is what happened to his computer.

[@free_boiling4502]

Haha

[@TheFatDemon]

Medical Monday’s reference??

[@LZ2SM]

nice one xD

[@catsbyondrepair]

Control alt fucked

[@morgankasper5227]

a guy installs a virus. this is what happened to his PC.

[@Goultek]

Hardware: We have 8GB ram, 1TB SSD drive, Blue ray drive... Windows 98: What is this witchery !?

[@IndigoGollum]

Imagine having any disc drive. *Cries in disk driveless computers*

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@IndigoGollum So, you run your PC on a floppy? A USB?

[@binkhowell8242]

1TB Solid State Drive Drive, blue ra- wait what? ATM machine:

[@Baer9471]

@@IndigoGollum CDs for computer are not that popular but still used back in 1998

[@mica7191]

Did work for me in VirtualBox... though... was sluggish with 512 MB ram

[@KamenPhilip]

Few things to mention. You CAN make the USB work in Windows 98, there are universal USB storage drivers available. Also you can play with Novell Netware for DOS/Windows, ODI drivers were universal at that time and theoretically could work with any Ethernet adapter. Also there were all sort of audio drivers and tweaks that can make your Windows sound-aware, even using the internal speaker. Not that all this is worth the effort. :)

[@therealprofessor976]

I'm interested

[@SolidSonicTH]

My experience with those drivers is they basically make the PC impossible to shut down when you install them.

[@KamenPhilip]

@@SolidSonicTH Windows 9x was a terrible piece of tech in every way imaginable. I am not surprised. But since making it compatible with such basic technology as USB is important, I would sacrifice the soft shutdown. :)

[@alexradu1921]

LOL CAN'T BELIEVE U HAV 1K SUBS... This video is so well-made, I thought u have at least 100k subs. Keep going, man! Your content is way too good & entertaining.

[@CanadianBakin42O]

So? I have 1.8k subs. More than him.

[@irnomo9784]

@@CanadianBakin42O he is 2.2 now

[@GBrayJ]

2.2 now..

[@nadimonsy5069]

2.6

[@narwhalestorm9881]

3.6

[@SearInMinecraft]

6:51 this is my favorite part

[@windestruct]

Windows acts weird when system memory bypasses 1GB

[@kewlguy]

it sure does

[@johnmurcott1273]

someone told this to the IT dept. at my school

[@gmdking]

I am definitely having problems with 32 Gigabytes.

[@ChemiiOneLegacy]

I remember doing these setups back in the day as part of my first job when I was 16 and let me tell you 36 minutes estimated for installing the O/S is hilarious. Used to take up to 4 hours per PC in some cases. Funny how people jumped from Windows 98 to Windows XP but no one talks about Windows ME or Windows 2000.

[@michamarkowski2204]

It was similiar with XP - on some PCs it took 30-40 minutes to install, on other 3-6 hours. As to not talking about ME or 2000, the latter was for workstations, not for PCs, so not many people had even seen it (my first contact was in 2012, when I had to make a new medical treadmill work with an old medical workstation). I don't know, how it was in the west, but in a country from the Warsaw Pact replacing OS every 2-3 years was not an option because it was too expensive. That's why most PCs had Windows 98 SE, Windows 98 or even Windows 95 installed until XP-era. I've seen ME only once, when my younger cousins got a PC and I was asked to set it up. There was a preinstalled Windows ME and it crashed (BSOD) 15 minutes after first launch. After 2-3 hours I've installed them Windows 98 SE and I wasn't needed until they wanted me to install Windows XP on their PC.

[@ChemiiOneLegacy]

@@michamarkowski2204 It was the same around here for a little while, many companies would run old operating systems through fear of breaking things. I remember servicing a very large Bank and they had Windows NT on some work stations around 2003-4 and hospitals or local GP's were the same. Around 2000 was when they started to produce factory built PCs to sell to every day families and that created Windows Millennium Edition, companies like Time PC or Tiny PC eventually most of these went bust. ME barely ever worked, we always used to install 98SE over it for reliability. Good times, I found it more interesting working with PC's in that era. I can't stand Windows 10.

[@luuk3213]

@@michamarkowski2204 it took like 5 minutes on my VM

[@cryoraptora303tm2]

@@michamarkowski2204 It's the same in the west. At the time of the WannaCry epidemic in 2017, some businesses and hospitals were still on XP - Three years after support had ended and when the OS was already 16 years old. Most businesses would still be on 7 if it wasn't for Microsoft's update campaign back in the 2010s. 11 has barely been publicised and the majority of businesses and home users will stay on 10 after support begins to be dropped. I suspect it'll take until Windows 12 for the big transition away from 10 to occur.

[@real2w10]

7:35 *WE WILL BUILD A GREAT WALL ALONG WINDOWS*

[@ShippoHsu]

@John 29Barr lmao

[@laynesamba]

I agree with your theory. The best machine for window 98 is a 3+ghz pentium 4.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Good thing I got a P4HT with a SATA SSD...

[@PistigriloXP]

Or an Athlon 64 Socket 754.

[@nunovyobeeswax4177]

SOYO Skydragon with AMD Athlon

[@mtunayucer]

Pentium 3 1ghz and 3dfx voodoo3 is probably the max you should use with era appropiate games.

[@Delta295]

I have a windows xp pc with 1gb ram and pentium d

[@khhnator]

i'm disappointed that "running in the 90's" was not being played in the background

[@likezoinks2739]

This reminds me of the time I had to help my great grandma set up her windows XP for the first time since like the late 70's.

[@RationalSlave]

12:28 that "bell voice" was strangely nostalgic!

[@Heopful]

Opening chime of John Lennon's "Mother" ?

[@Aquarirus]

@@Heopful *_P U R P L E M A S H M A Z E G A M E_*

[@TheDeelunatic]

Windows 98 is slow on modern hardware because of the way that Windows 98 manages RAM and CPU. It doesn't have a proper "Idle" process so it populates 100% the CPU at full bore at all times, whether it's used or not. So it freaks out when it sees way more RAM than it expects to run on. Windows 98 on a PC from the late days of XP and early days of Vista would be about the limit since they are normally had about 1 GB of RAM at the lowest would be about the limit of what could be effectively ran. If you add an app that applies the Idle process, it will run properly. something about ACPI or something like that has to be fixed to make it work right. Virtualbox has this issue as well. Heck a Netbook makes Windows 98 run like lightning. but that's because most only came with 1 GB and had low resolution screens.

[@xheralt]

Or use a 3rd-party Memory Manager from the era; I used a program called RamIDLE back in the day. I think it's still available for free download, actually...

[@TheDeelunatic]

@@xheralt same idea, but I couldn't remember what one of the programs were called.

[@thingshappen9199]

Where can i even get a full copy of Win98?

[@TheDeelunatic]

@@thingshappen9199 legit, Amazon, ebay, not so legit, check out WinWorldpc.com, really not legit, look for torents.

[@thingshappen9199]

@@TheDeelunatic winworld? The thing is, what if there's malware packed with it? And does it come with a key?

[@Vlad-1986]

Hey, I think I know about the battery usage: Old DOS didn't really use interrupts for the CPU, so they where 100% even while idle (wonders of having really low power hungry processors). Windows 98 actually supported power management, only detects it automatically in APM machines... You can force the setup option /p j and force ACPI and that high juicy battery life (not compatible with Windows 95)

[@TheClickbaiterYT]

minesweeper the game that no one knew how to play but played anyway

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

years later, when I used the internet to discover how it works, I played it on my grandma's computer with XP

[@douglaslane6184]

Actually, once you learn it, it isn't that bad.

[@douglaslane6184]

Lmao I still use ethernet to this day. Its faster and more reliable.

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

@@douglaslane6184 I still use ethernet on my PC, if your PC is stationary, there is no reason to use wi-fi over ethernet

[@cannedbeverage7687]

First time I played it I thought the goal was to explode the bombs.

[@timjardim3483]

Came for the cool Windows 98 video, left with a great video editor-Sweet!

[@michaeltrey2248]

I remember changing the curser every day on windows 98, and my parents would get so irritated for some reason, lol. I continued to do so for years, and eventually they got used to it.

[@douglaslane6184]

As of this year, Windows 98 is of drinking age (in America). Happy 21st birthday W98! (Edit) OMG MORE LIKES THAN MY OWN WEIGHT, I DIDN'T KNOW THIS IS POSSIBLE... This post was made in 2019.

[@yourlocalpleb4796]

It's been legal for 4 years now in Aussie land xD

[@stagger87]

@@yourlocalpleb4796 And most of the 'normal' world

[@fyzzoh]

meanwhile in germany: *16*

[@zj7845]

"I was **burp** young and beautiful **burp** then, you know...I was the **burp** most welcomed **burp** si..system...in the world, you know...**burp** People are assholes... **burp** They get a new **burp** system and they don't **burp** love you anymore... before you know it **burp** you are in a friggin floppy disk **burp** in some goddamn junkyard.."

[@KyranSparda]

@@fyzzoh The rest of the Southeast Asia: Nobody gives a shit as long as you're not get caught. There are kids drinking as young as 12.

[@RiasatSalminSami]

12:18 Its simply ray tracing now that it has modern hardware.

[@therealvbw]

DLSS lol

[@basantatamang2249]

How many seconds per frame ?

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@basantatamang2249 1600$ per frame if Nvidia keeps increasing GPU price.

[@salamanderavem3782]

Im a history nerd and this brings me so much joy This is less of a weird concept and more of a tutorial to further drive my obsession

[@RhinoXpress]

Ms should make windows 9x open source and watch the flood gates open for modern hardware support.

[@DMack6464]

they wouldn't release source code for actually good software they've made, then they would lose all the money they would make on their shittier Windows 10!

[@AdrianKilgour]

@@DMack6464 Windows 9.x is DOS so i don't think anyone would be switching to that anytime soon

[@DMack6464]

@@AdrianKilgour people could make hacks for it that add support for modern programs tho, maybe even better/more modern generic drivers and modern RAM support!

[@AdrianKilgour]

@@DMack6464 Hmm makes sense. I wouldn't be using Windows 10 if they still supported old software.

[@trollsthatlol1]

@@DMack6464 Pretty much!

[@nickg.4504]

Definitely one of the most underrated channels I’ve ever seen. Really interesting stuff! 😄

[@SirJackII]

No way this is 5 years old - this aged like fine wine

[@zc32-official]

7:35 We will build a great wall along *W I N D O W S*

[@sbunny8]

and make Apple pay for it

[@saadmanmahfuz]

and let samsung advertise it

[@seshpenguin]

Ohhhh boy this is exactly the kind of video I want.

[@slygg]

I just rediscovered undertale and am now suffering from temporary undertale obsession. I went to my homepage because I needed to watch something not-undertale related, I click this video and there is god damn more undertale.

[@mousestar369]

Computer: Ram? Uh...8gb. Is that okay? Windows 98: Hold on-what? What magic are you using!? 8gb of ram!?

[@Rundumsfliegen]

Computer: i See your Not used to this... Windows 98: holy fuck**g hell No!

[@JawshMcCullaugh]

Seriously... that's like, almost the size of an entire hard disk!

[@DarkLinkAD]

Some servers supported 16GB of ram, back into the Pentium II era. I bought a 1 GB SD-Ram stick to remind myself.

[@jasonlisonbee]

I remember using a HDD comparable in capacity to a compact disc. A HDD utility from the HDD mfgr was needed to access the whole capacity; included on a floppy. I can't remember if the ram maxed at 4 MB or 8. CPU was a Cyrix 486 dx2. It came bundled with a bubble jet printer, some limited functionality programs and games, and a monitor for about $2k.

[@ITAC85]

Windows 98 & DOS: Hold on, I think you mean 1MB. Does that seem okay?

[@KernelPanic0]

Congratulations! You've won the KZbin algorithm lottery! Claim your prize at the door.

[@marrallisa]

And then install windows on the door

[@thebirdman3898]

I’m currently restoring a windows 98 computer I found in a dumpster

[@Jewsh]

1:51 Actually it is possible to have up to 3.3 GB of RAM in Windows 98 (like in any 32-bit Windows). Back in 2008, some hacking was done in Germany on a third-party Windows 98 memory patch to remove elements of copy-protection or proprietary installation and convert the files into fully portable, fully distributable working versions. In early 2014, some mention of these hacked files was made on certain english-language web-forums, and the link from which these files could be downloaded was discovered. The files in question are replacements for VMM32.vxd and VMM.vxd. They allow Windows 98 to boot and run on systems with huge amounts of RAM, and make use of up to 3.3 GB of RAM. I myself had installed Windows 98 on a machine with 20 GB of RAM and it's been running with little to no problems. The only side-effect of using these files as-is, is that when you get BSOD errors, the text of the errors is written in German, and not English. Here is a link to these files (vmm98sed.zip): www.freora.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=license_result&gid=3&bid=3&Itemid=52

[@UmohowetYelayu]

OMG!!! Desktop Themes! I loved those! The ones shown in the video were among my favorites! Talk about a shot of nostalgia! Geez!

[@ErikB750]

Didn't it come with a Plus package or something. The 'in the computer' theme was my favorite for a long time.

[@bruhmaster4207]

Windows 98 SE with plug and play LAN drivers: Look what he needs to mimic a fraction of our network

[@Jewsh]

3:28 It's the BIOS. Here's how that works: on startup BIOS makes USB drives appear in system as generic hard drives, and only later on, as it passes control over to the operating system that supports USB it starts treating them as USB devices. It's most obvious if you try unplugging a USB drive while in DOS and then plug it back in - it won't be recognized, you'd have to reboot. Actually that's how USB keyboards and mice work in DOS on modern machines - DOS thinks that they are some generic PS/2 keyboards and mice while BIOS provides compatibility support.

[@sarpmanon]

not BIOS it is BSOD(Blue Screen Of Death)

[@Pythonian7]

Ryan Playz „Sweat“ r/boneappletea

[@slyp5409]

@@sarpmanon I genuinely believe you need to do more research before you say things. BIOS was not only talked about in this video, but it was also shown for the majority of it. Just because you think someones wrong, doesn't generally mean they are.

[@XENON2028]

@@slyp5409 what is the definition of a joke?

[@slyp5409]

@@XENON2028 Dunno, but clowning around 2 year old comments comes pretty close to it I'd assume.

[@dumbtruccc]

How dare you not have more subscribers? I've watched almost all your videos in one day and your content is amazing! I hope to see more content like this at some point :)

[@usamahjacobs9203]

your videos are so great and extremely creative ! keep it up man

[@SerandibBroadcast]

My father bought me my first PC back in 2004. It was a Intel Pentium 4, some 2. ghz (doesn't have a clear memory on that part) With 256 MB Ram and 64 MB AMD graphic card. Had dual boot with Windows XP and Windows 98. XP for me , 98 for my father since he is bit of old school. Man I played games, learned many stuff on that little machine man. It is pretty nostalgic for even to hear the word Windows 98 now. Thanks for the video.

[@ausrider99]

Lucky you. I had a 386sx 16mhz with 1MB ram and 40MB Hdd in 1990.

[@aaron_333]

My dad bought us an 8088 clone, 640 kB was all we needed. It had a 10 MB hard drive too.

[@ausrider99]

And my father bought us an abacus. Top that.

[@SerandibBroadcast]

@@ausrider99 dude those days, I learned about your stuff. seriously man times move way fast

[@SerandibBroadcast]

@@aaron_333 when was that?

[@Lonezewolf]

From The imperial age to the Dark ages. Young Wizard why have you traveled so far?

[@jonathanlilje6869]

This video was so helpful. I am installing Windows 98 on hardware WITH Windows 98 support and the graphics driver had me completely stumped. Thanks for that. Bummer about the audio. The sound of Windows 98 / 95 starting up is... Well it's worth having sound. Thank you for this video.

[@GothamCity85]

Jerry aka Barnucles here on KZbin did a video a little while ago and explained why Windows 8 and 10 are so low resource usage and can be installed on cheap tablet Pc's, essentially they were designed from the ground up to run on the lowest spec systems and had a lot of fine tuning done with their architecture in order to achieve low install file sizes for each respective OS and better power management at the chip level. Anything pre Win 8 tends to be bigger install sizes and clunkier to operate the further back you go. Windows 98 had monster sized installation files that due to limited transfer rates on most pre-built boxes meant waiting an hour or more for the files to install from the setup disk that came with the system. The older OS's dont play well on modern hardware because they simply weren't designed to be forwards compatible. The chip architecture that they were designed for left them with serious limitations on modern cpu architecture. This is why they often feel sluggish or glitchy versus running them in a simulated environment on a VM. The VM techinally fools the operatating system into thinking its installed on native/supported hardware when its actually not. Windows 95 was even more atrocious to work with as everything was floppy based and system functionality was very limited.

[@romeoneverdies]

i don' t know about that if i remember correctly win98 was about 300mb and XP around 2gb and and 7+ still is around that i think there is such a thing as bloat limit... i mean there is a limit as to what functions you can include into a os ...

[@joyrider6456]

+GothanCity85 You forget Windows 7 dude, it all started from thére....nót from 8.

[@GothamCity85]

@@romeoneverdies I've had systems all the way back to the 90's and remember our Compaq with and AMD Athelon processor being a turd to setup the first time. The computer was supposed to have the Win98 os preinstalled but Circuit City sold the model with a bundled install disk instead. From what I remember the install took about an hour from start to finish with several boot cycles. Our next system was a HP Pavilion running XP and that one had an Intell Inceleron processor, initialization was about thirty minutes so that the system could configure device drivers and such. Win95 was the longest setup as everything was on 3.5 inch floppy disks and there were three that contained portions of the OS install, then another four for the device drivers. We had a stack of floppys that went unused after we upgraded.lol As far a resource usage on Win8 and 10 I'm basing that completely off of what Jerry said and he worked for MS during the Win8 build and helped with that. I know my current install of Win10 is running on an ARM processor with no issues and the os is less than 6gb in total file size.

[@GothamCity85]

@@joyrider6456 Technically Win7 was a redo of Vista, it used nearly the same architecture but had some serious improvements to proformance and functionality. I loved Win7 and refused to upgrade to 10 until my laptop completely died. The laptop was a 250gb hdd Toshiba Satellite series using an Intel Core I7 processor. It took an update from MS and was bricked by it.

[@kiritgupta]

How do you only have 2K subs?? Your content and presentation is awesome! Please do consider making a win98 build on cherrypicked mid 2000s hardware.

[@AmRFuKYaH]

Because only 2k users clicked the little red subscribe button on this channel.

[@abergethirty]

They rolled their eyes at the hacky anti- trump joke and didn't bother. People who Brexit in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[@cln5510]

What fhe tuck

[@mintybudgie]

ngl this guy is my favorite youtuber but i wish there was more windows content

[@Naeou]

you're a really good story teller! I'm not a tech person, just came for the nostalgia and didn't expect to stick around for the whole video, but i did cuz damn you're so entertaining! I had fun despite not knowing what you were talking about ahaha 😅 also love your accent! 👌🏽

[@Spreadie]

You can hack the registry to make some Win2K drivers work on Win98. It is literally a case of installing the driver and the editing the registry entries to rename references to Win2k as Win98. It was discovered as a way to get older hardware to run in 2k but surprisingly, it worked in reverse in many cases. Don't ask for a link - I found the instructions on a BBS back in the day and had to print them out. LOL

[@Jahades]

The good old days when you could literally brute force Windows to do what you wanted

[@NoodleCollie]

Came for the Windows 98 nostalgia, got excited by an open source video editor?? Good work, sir.

[@rebokfleetfoot]

brilliant troubleshooting by the way, very few have the skill and determination to do that

[@tessjdt]

"I know that because Rufus knows that" - It's 6am here and I almost spit out my coffee laughing! :D

[@stevensmith6094]

Your editing style and sfx dropins had me literally lolling. Nice job, Dude.

[@sburton015]

And it will still greet you with the wonderful introduction "Welcome to the new exciting world of Windows 98, where your desktop meets the internet". Well, new world from 21 years ago.

[@junko4166]

This feels like an old JonTron video. I love it.

[@BowserN64]

I love your humor and editing style. That was a really entertaining and informative video. Keep up the good work!

[@Axctal]

Booting from USB in a VM : - create VMDK pointing to your USB - add this VMDK as your disk to VM Profit ! no side loaders needed, USB is posing as a HD (can set to IDE, for example)

[@Nonexistanthuman]

It would be interesting to see you install all the windows discs or revisions up to the modern windows 10 from windows 98

[@ffatheranderson]

18:20 😁 the same. Computer’s motherboard theme was one of my favorite....

[@AaronCarson14]

Video got recommended to me and I'm so glad it was! Super funny and great content 🙌 subscribed 💃

[@beedslolkuntus2070]

Yeah, how did it get recommended to me too, this guy has 840 Subs only

[@harddriveYT]

There's an setting in the display options where you can change the native PPI of the OS from 72 to 96. That would make the text more readable on high res display.

[@mikemurphy8714]

I'm trying to keep up with how you're doing this but I can't because you're videos are hilarious and making me laugh too much with all the silliness...love it.

[@ivyflow3r]

16 MB is bigger than 8 GB for windows 98 (Wow we hitted 100 likes)

[@_danu]

It's because it can't support more than 1gb of ram

[@ivyflow3r]

@@_danu Everyone already knows

[@evetsnitram8866]

I still have a Win 98 machine in a beige box no less. I still have it around because it runs Seer Systems Reality softsynth which went out of business and was stranded. It would be cool to run Win 98 successfully from USB on a laptop.

[@eduardoavila646]

It cant see because its too much, so it sees 0mb

[@seppi3201]

still have a win98 machine with 512mb of ram. hahahahah idk if it could still turn on.

[@anshulagrawal5202]

Thanks man, for refreshing old memories. I have installed the damm Windows 98 so many times those days, that it was like a ritual for me to find a PC and format it. And also Realtek AC97 Audio Driver

[@kaylynn4750]

I’m glad I got to the end and found out about the video editing program! I’m stoked! I’m tired of paying for Adobe Premiere! I hope an official version comes out in the near future!

[@MultiGoldensilver]

MattKC: We're going to install Windows 98 on modern machine Me: *NANI*

[@prodnarcix]

this showed up in my recommended one day and when u advertised ur editing software that was free i was skeptical but after using it a few times it’s so good. thanks for making that shit.

[@DaniDanMaster]

These videos are so entertaining I find myself rewatching them a lot

[@kennynvake4hve584]

The camera you filmed this on...probley has 10 times the power as that computer.

[@jeff4362]

10x the power but -10x the productivity when it comes to word documents, spreadsheets, hell probably even image editing

[@Dukect]

A very good video I have an a modern computer trying to use Windows 98 any chance you going to think about going to XP or heck even Windows 3.1. now that would be an interesting video in the future. Anyway keep up the good work

[@MattKC]

I could certainly be tempted to make videos in that vein 👀

[@tminusblastedrocket]

The install process for 3.1 is pretty simple install freedos the new one not the old one use the second option on startup copy the 3.1 install floppies to a USB flash drive go to the USB flash drive in dos and do the installation pretty simple do not use the Rufus freedos it's old as crap

[@davidokeif8304]

If he went with Win 3.1, the DOS NIC driver would probably work.

[@mcan-piano4718]

Yess please do about XPPP, I love it

[@jeffhousen8968]

the downside to xp is Microsoft carefully removed the activation from their options, so while you can get it to run, it will always be "not genuine" getting it to run is not much of an issue, still new enough

[@truestbluu]

father into your hands i commend my spirit

[@davordamjanovic893]

Nostalgia time: installed win xp and enyojed snapy opening of photos and folders. Not like win 10 that needs to open f@#$ VM to see photo that needs 10s to open

[@j_c_93]

To look at photos in Windows 10, I right click and press Edit so that it opens in Paint. Its literally the fastest option

[@deus_ex_machina_]

Just use IrfanView

[@gp3328]

Uhhh windows 10 opens the photos app.

[@j_c_93]

@@gp3328 Yeah. The photos app is slow as fuck.

[@drpleaserespect]

@@j_c_93 It's so fucking slow. Even on my SSD.. Everytime I get a PC I instantly install Irfanview.

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

Windows 98, my God that takes me back. *Cries tears of nostalgia while listening to Oasis*

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Just imagine what it would look like on the 5K iMac

[@esiayoalegbe5681]

Don’t give anyone ideas.

[@Adamlol642]

I want to buy one just to do that

[@ananttiwari1337]

You nearly predicted it...

[@Adamlol642]

He put me on an imac

[@Vexxel256]

Thanks for the idea, imagine M S D O S on the 5K Imac

[@ChadsHobies]

Win 98 Second Edition has usb support.

[@lokiaoki]

The Thinkpad aesthetic hasn’t changed much in the last two decades so Windows 98 doesn’t look too out of place running on the machine.

[@PistigriloXP]

Lokesh Devraj I agree with you.

[@enbymina]

never did i think i'd see a yakuza meme on this channel

[@enbymina]

it was rad

[@hobo101101101]

Even though the laptop has modern hardware, it still looks like a school computer from 2005.

[@peterbakpetersen4942]

Best design ever - no need to change that! :D

[@abernardo]

Your patience makes me laugh. I remember when I had almost that level

[@Tugezu]

man. this was such awesome video because this helped me s LOT on installing windows 98 on actual hardware! Thank you!!

[@fhdjdjdndbdhdh577]

1:58 I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!

[@anders4949]

please can you help me? dont remember what this game is called!

[@fhdjdjdndbdhdh577]

@@anders4949 undertale lol

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

I want to see "Installing Windows 3.0"

[@Zytiron]

I still have a copy of Windows 1.0

[@resneptacle]

Should be easier

[@guilherm502]

Ir actually should be pretty easy, easier than Windows 98; it wouldn't have the memory problem, for example

[@ΤιμοςΦωτης]

I'm happy to see that another Windows ME computer still alive, good job man keep the computer alive there are not many else in the world 😯

[@emanandchill]

I expected him to actually install on a modern laptop's storage. USB is cheating.

[@maxniftynine]

emanandchill slap the data from the usb to the hard drive or ssd and it should work. Right?

[@emanandchill]

@@maxniftynine yes

[@jodisnepvangers7067]

This is honestly much better and easier... unplug the usb and the computer will go back completely to normal~

[@ninethirtyone4264]

@@maxniftynine Nope. Windows 98 doesn't have any sata support, and same as with WiFi, Lenovo hasn't obviously made any drivers for it.

[@maxniftynine]

Nine thirty one welp it makes sense but we still have no over 2 tb ram support

[@SHTMusik]

The "ultimate Windows 98 machine" was called Windows XP.

[@chickenmag1657]

.......

[@swindle-t3m]

I do not get it

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

SHT musik ultimate spring is 8.1

[@tanjimbashar]

Are you talking about the Windows 98 skin on windows xp?

[@MonotaHiros]

Windows 11: I Want to be Fast! Windows 98: I Want to be SLOW!!!

[@stevebarrows6043]

Matt, Thanks! This was a cool video. I remember LOVING windows 98 and hated the change up 2000. Have you tried windows 7 on a modern, with maybe a partitioned drive? At any rate I stumbled across this video and found it entertaining and educational... and nostalgic. You do a good job of explaining and really follow through. I will subscribe to your channel as I think you have a lot of talent and creativity and personality, I expect to find more worthwhile videos. Hopefully you'll gain some sort of payback in the future. I cant imagine monetizing on youtube is bringing in much cash. BUT if I'm wrong... MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT!, then maybe I'll give youtube monetizing a shot also. Keep it up!