Does anybody know of games that are 98 compatible that don't take up a load of space and are fun? I'm running my computer with 98 again, and I'd like to put some nice games on it before I have to take it offline forever(?) For some reason my dad hates the idea of this computer being hooked up to the internet, and wants it out of this room as well, so I'm going to be stuck with a computer that has no online access, and only a couple games.

Theme hospital

old as the hills, but still good solid fun
same goes for the original Roller Coaster tycoon, and its expansion packs

A buddy of mine used to have a 98 that played Warctaft 2 and the Oregon Trail.

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Your best bet is to load it up with a few emulators and some roms.

--edit-- that and get a copy of Worms Armageddon, then you'll be set.

Wait - you'll be losing internet altogether, or just on your computer? If you're just losing internet on your computer, then I suggest investing in a Flash/Jump drive. You can get some really good deals on those if you look in the right places. With that, you can download games straight onto your flash drive from wherever, take them to your computer and upload them onto that, and then just remove them from the flash drive again. Of course, you can't get things bigger than your flash drive, but that shouldn't be a problem as the typical flash drive is 2-4 GB.

You'll probly never find it but Warlords III: Reign of Heroes is an amazing turn based fantasy strategy game with heroes you can level up.

Some other noteworthy games are Age of Empires, Star Craft the already mentioned Worms rollercoaster tycoon and Emulation.

By the way Great choice! Windows 98 rocks! I miss it. XP isn't too bad and 2000 sucked hard.

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If I were you, I would download bucket loads of ROMs. A single well-chosen console game can keep you entertained for a long time. If you manage to choose maybe 10 really good games, you could potentially last a year. Well, maybe. If you ever get access to another computer at one point and you happen to have a burnable CD, get some ROMs and put them onto the CD. Then just put them on your PC!=D

Are you losing all your internet access completely!?O_O

I'm having trouble getting my flash drive to work with my computer because 98 was made before flash drives, meaning that most of them won't work. I have to have the drivers software, and that's obselete because newer operating systems such as XP and Vista don't need them.

My dad has one that would work, but it's not a massive size (although that wouldn't be too much a problem) and plus he lost the software.  


As for ROM's I thought of that idea too late, and now I'm permanently out of internet for my computer because it got moved. I'll have to get a flash drive to work with it.

Burn a cd with a generic mass storage driver like this one http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php , There are a few others, but I have no real experience with any of them.

Right now it's copying it to a CD. Thanks for the help.  

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pleh, Windoze is all a bit rubbishy  

People play starcraft without internet these days? I never found myself replaying the campaign too many times.

The CD didn't work. I'm not sure why...

My 98 computer doesn't recognize that there is anything at all on the CD, when some of the other computers at my house do.

I had a lot of fun with the campaign editor actually.

Though you are correct. A lot of the fun of Starcraft came from net play.

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I still have no way of moving files because the computer won't recognize the CD.  

Does it not work any CDs?

Well if you've buggers the CD drive then you'll have to get a new one, you could get one of those disks with bristles on that play a song and clean the reader at the same time just incase all it is is a bit dirty

I was able to install Bomberman Collection on my computer, so the CD drive works. It just did not like my CD at all.

All the other computers would take it though...

What would you suggest that I do at this point?

heh, well my impulse of a relatively useless, generic response would be "get a mac", a machine that has selective CD reading would to me mean that its time to let it die.

still, maybe ask around, see if anyone has an external drive or something, you can see if the compy picks it up from one of those

if it doesn't, your wasting your time with the machine, convince your parent or guardian to purchase a shiny iMac  

Money would be a little bit of a problem.

Or else i would want a completely new computer. But that's not happening.

Throw something else on there and this time actually close the cd this time, windows 98 has some issues with non closed cds fer some strange reason.