Hi

Like some of you, I'm a bit of a retro enthusiast, so I have a dedicated machine for Windows 98 gaming in which I like to run W98 era games, even if they work just fine in XP and above. Lately I've been messing around with getting the GoG installers to run on 98 using KernelEx, and after a log of digging, they did.

My next step is to run games that were compatible with 98 originally, but the GoG version isn't. This seems to be the case of most games that used CD Audio, and were tweaked to read the music from OGG files instead, using libvorbis. One of these games is Tomb Raider 2, but lukily, that game runs just fine on 98, and plays music perfectly. But the one I'm struggling with is Mortal Kombat 4. For some reason, the libvorbis/libogg flibraries in this case require XP or newer to run and even with KernelEx, I can't get it to work on 98. Even replacing the DLLs with the ones from the TR2 installation doesn't work, so it's clearly trying to do something that the older library doesn't support.

Sure I could just install XP in a separate partition and run it there, but I really want to keep that rig as retro as possible, and for me that means Win 98, maybe Windows ME at most. Does somebody know of a way to get those libraries to work, o to patch the game to use different libraries?

I really wish GoG would give us the original ISO at least for these kind of games, like they do with System Shock (is there any other? SS is the only one I'm aware of)

Thanks.