Click to expand.Are you kidding? Windows 'compatibility mode' is a joke. I too have several games that only run on Win98 and there's no way possible to make them run on anything but Win98.

In fact, I've *never* seen a Win98-only program that DID work on Win2k or XP compatibility mode. Total garbage. So yes, you have to have genuine Windows 1998, but it should work fine in Vmware. Only downside is that any games that depend on a 3DFX voodoo card for 3D acceleration (Quake, Quake2, etc.), that wont work in Vmware.

Can I install Windows 98 on my Mac? Discussion in 'macOS' started by liamh1, Jul 28, 2009. You can download a full featured demo of VMware fusions from their site. I'd try DLing it and installing 98 on that, if it works well enough for you, buy it!

I have a Pentium Pro desktop w/ 128 MB that I keep around specifically for running Win98. I've got two Voodoo2 cards (in SLI mode) in there. Works great for those 'vintage' games that won't run on anything else. Both VMware and Parallels run Windows 98.

If your game that requires Windows 98 also needs DirectX 7 orso, you still have a problem. Usb hard drive for mac. Only Windows XP as guest OS supports DirectX (9) shaders. I have something similar when playing one of my all time favourites: Need for Speed 4 (High Stakes). This game runs best in Windows 98, but both the Virtualisation software I use can't use 3D grfx acceleration whilst running Win 98 as the guest OS. So, after some fooling around and Googling a lot, I got it running on VMware on Windows XP as guest OS. No compatibility mode, but running natively.

Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has that you can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The source code and app installers are available. According to The Verge, 'apps like Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint, and Minesweeper all run like you'd expect,' but 'Internet Explorer isn't fully functional as it simply refused to load pages.' From the report: The app is only 129MB in size and you can download it over at Github for both macOS and Windows. Once it's running it surprisingly only takes up around 200MB of RAM, even when running all of the old Windows 95 system utilities, apps, and games.

Adobe acrobat reader pro for mac. If you run into any issues with the app you can always reset the Windows 95 instance inside the app and start over again. Enjoy this quirky trip down memory lane. Yeah, I've been using Lite since I had a space constrained phone and since I'm not a heavy or advanced Facebook user it's enough for me. Being so small it's probably just a thin wrapper over the mobile site.

Anyway, many (Twitter does for example) apps have 'lite' versions for resource constrained phones. Sadly, they're only (officially) available on developing countries.

I guess the reason is to force users in developed nations to use the 'big' versions which have much more spying so that the company can m. Want to know something funny? See something like Google Maps or other web-apps?