I know windows 98 is not supported. I recently built a retro box, complete with high end CRT. I'd like to get some gog.com games onto it, but I'm having issues with what I think are registry issues. Does anyone have a method they use, or is there a tool out there to easily copy the games over?

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/

It's sad that this is now a thing. So retro!

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.

You could try running the installer.

If that doesn't work, try running the installer with the /nogui switch.

If they're that old they're going to look horrible regardless.

It'd be pain in the arse making games to work on 98 since you don't have original CD's. I'm still running 98 on an old machine if I feel kinky, but have plenty of old CD's. GoG installer won't run on an older Windows, even if so you will face more problems like newer executables, cd emulation, missing entry points.. As cogadh already said, ALchemy and nGlide are your friends.

I have to ask, isn't the point of GOG to bring old games to new machines?!

Yup, though it would be cool if GOG supplied the original disc images as a bonus.

How old do you think we're talking here? Basically any game that isn't capable of running at your LCD monitor's native resolution is going to suffer from the scaling. I would say there are plenty of nice looking games that were restricted to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. Those will all look much nicer on a CRT than on a modern fixed pixel display.

Windows 98... that is fairly old man.

Curse of Monkey Island and Riven are both examples of nice looking games from the time which are completely fixed resolution. They look a blurry mess with LCD scaling and a good deal nicer on a CRT. The same goes for HDTVs, SD stuff (especially console games, but also TV) looks like crap on every HDTV I've ever seen and looks a lot better on a CRT. And it's not a case of me going "I'm sure I remember this looking better... oh well, must be the HDTV!", I still own an mid-2000s CRT TV and SD stuff just does look better on it.

I'm not defending the idea of running an actual old PC, just old displays (and mostly just countering your opinion that games from 15 years ago are too old to look good).

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.

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