Windows 98
Software entity
Runs natively on Win98 and/or WinME and is supported by the developers/publishers on it.
345
games
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Alternate names: Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows Millenium Edition, Windows 4.10, Windows 4.90
WIN 2006
WIN 2005-04
WIN 1999-06
WIN 1999-10
WIN 2008-07
WIN 2004-11-08
WIN 2007
WIN 1999-08
WIN 2003-10-16
WIN 1999-08-18
WIN ? *
WIN 2001-12-25
Backwards compatibility:
- DOS : partial
- Win95 : full
DirectX:
* Shipped with DirectX 5.2
* DirectX 9.0c 2006-12 update last to support
- DOS : partial
- Win95 : full
DirectX:
* Shipped with DirectX 5.2
* DirectX 9.0c 2006-12 update last to support
This covers 98, 98SE and ME because they're pretty much the same Windows with no notable differences game-wise (and there are practically no games that support ME but not either of the 98 variants).
For emulation/virtual machine purposes, you should prefer 98SE as it is the most compatible and likely the most stable one.
Win9x supported only single CPU, so you may have to take this into account when running games made for it on modern operating systems and hardware. For example multithreaded games might get into race conditions, crashes, hangs, etc.on systems with multiple CPUs, cores, or such.
For emulation/virtual machine purposes, you should prefer 98SE as it is the most compatible and likely the most stable one.
Win9x supported only single CPU, so you may have to take this into account when running games made for it on modern operating systems and hardware. For example multithreaded games might get into race conditions, crashes, hangs, etc.on systems with multiple CPUs, cores, or such.
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Games by year
A | 1996 - NT4 released |
B | 1998 - Windows 98 released 1998 - DirectX 6 released |
C | 1999 - Windows 98SE released 1999 - DirectX 7 released |
D | 2000 - Windows 2000 released 2000 - Windows ME released 2000 - DirectX 8 released |
E | 2002 - DirectX 9 released |
F | 2004 - DirectX 9.0c released (SM 3.0 introduced) |
G | 2006 - Windows 98/ME support ceased by MS |
The first Windows 98 video game was released in 1995.
Activision, Atari and Electronic Arts published most of these games.