Can all these newbie multi-core 64-bit CPUs run Win98, yes ninety-eight ? Which ones can ?

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Hang Xian

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I hate to waste all the investment in Win98 version softwares !

But it appears that all new hardwares boasts Win7 or higher only drivers !

Are these suppliers lazy to write drivers ? Or are these new hardwares really incompatible with 32-bit hardwares now ?

BY any chance any of these newbies still have Win98 drivers and can run Win98 software ?

Thanks, guys !
 
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As said above, a VM is probably your best bet if you're not willing to upgrade your software, getting Windows 98 running on modern hardware is extremely difficult at the best of times. Windows 98 tends not to play well with any form of DDR RAM, and will run into problems if more than 1GB of RAM is installed in the system. It probably would also run into issues running SATA hard disks as well due to a lack of driver support, not to mention the fact even the smallest hard drives available now are much larger than what was available during the Windows 98 era. Your best bet on getting Windows 98 running natively would be to try and find a 15 year old computer that still works and use that for the applications that won't run on modern OSes.

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64bit cpu's and operating systems are backward compatible with 32bit programs. An older os may not run properly on the latest hardware if there aren't the right drivers for them compatible with win98 but a 32bit program running on win98 should run on win7/8.1. Many browsers are still 32bit (though more are starting to offer 64bit versions finally). A vm would probably be the best bet.
 
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As said above, a VM is probably your best bet if you're not willing to upgrade your software, getting Windows 98 running on modern hardware is extremely difficult at the best of times. Windows 98 tends not to play well with any form of DDR RAM, and will run into problems if more than 1GB of RAM is installed in the system. It probably would also run into issues running SATA hard disks as well due to a lack of driver support, not to mention the fact even the smallest hard drives available now are much larger than what was available during the Windows 98 era. Your best bet on getting Windows 98 running natively would be to try and find a 15 year old computer that still works and use that for the applications that won't run on modern OSes.

 
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