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Posted August 16, 2015
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darthspudius: I never had a problem with Curse on my pc. Looked fine to me. Think you might be taking my comments a little too seriously.
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SirPrimalform: Difference in opinion, that's all. Things like blurry scaling and wrong aspect ratio bother me, they obviously don't bother you. I'd still say CRTs provide an objectively better picture, the subjective bit is whether you notice or care. :P
I had a magnificent CRT that sadly died. Just before the thin monitors came out. I agree that they were better. Shame they took up so much room.
Posted August 16, 2015
What games are we talking about specifically?

innosetup extractor can probably help, but if it's games that would have run on those systems, a medium like dosbox would simply be ignored and you'd run directly from the game's directory... (Tyrian comes to mind)

Also to note, i've tried playing some games on older systems from GoG... although they technically 'worked' they worked so poorly it wasn't worth considering. I'm referring to Soul Reaver on a XP SP2 system with 1 core/cpu at 2Ghz (The sound was so choppy... Reminds me of a pirated version i downloaded on my vista laptop had the same issue which is why i didn't play it there...)
Posted August 16, 2015
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darthspudius: I had a magnificent CRT that sadly died. Just before the thin monitors came out. I agree that they were better. Shame they took up so much room.
Mine died too. =(

Still got my SDTV though, which is good really as I lost interest in console gaming around the start of the 'HD' generation.
Posted August 17, 2015
Have you tried KernelEX: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/ to try to run the installer on 98? I also have an older computer kicking around and I could install some programs meant for newer versions.
Post edited August 17, 2015 by enigmaxg2
Posted August 17, 2015
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keyvin: LCD scaling makes quite a few games look horrible. There are also things that like EAX and Glide that you have no option for on a modern system AFAIK.
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cogadh: You can hook up a CRT to a modern computer, plus EAX can be done through ALchemy (if you have a Creative sound card) and Glide has nGlide or whatever the current Glide wrapper is called.
You can also achieve EAX through onboard Realtek cards using hacked drivers, been using those and taking advantage of Alchemy for man games.
Posted February 14, 2018
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Ganni1987: Unless the Installer runs on Win98 without issues, then you'll have to manually unpack the games and add any necessary information into the registry manually.

I use this to unpack the games: http://innounp.sourceforge.net/
what gog releases are confirmed to run under win98se?
I would buy lot's of stuff to get rid of the copy-protection but I do not want to burn iso's of gog releases because I have the originals here on cd-rom.
If they do use special software to get rid of redbook-audio then this will most likely kill win98 support.

so any Info's about gog-releases that are drm-free, not not require to burn an iso to run?

thx
Doc
Posted February 14, 2018
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dr.zeissler: what gog releases are confirmed to run under win98se?
I would buy lot's of stuff to get rid of the copy-protection but I do not want to burn iso's of gog releases because I have the originals here on cd-rom.
If they do use special software to get rid of redbook-audio then this will most likely kill win98 support.

so any Info's about gog-releases that are drm-free, not not require to burn an iso to run?

thx
Doc
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