| Directory: applications/database |
| mysql-3.23.55-win.zip | MySQL 3.23-55 is the last version of MySQL to work with Windows 98. | 13.31 MB | 2025-02-26 |
| Directory: applications/graphics/graphics-conversion |
| ansimat-v0.93-win.zip | ANSiMat is a graphical viewer of ANSI art files. It can also be used to convert ANSI (or plain ASCII) files into regular (BMP, TGA, PCX...) graphic files, or into animations (FLC). Altough not initially designed for this, ANSiMat can be successfully used as an ASCII art viewer, or even simple text files viewer. | 137.69 KB | 2025-02-06 |
| Directory: applications/productivity/pdf-viewer |
| adberdr60-enu-full.exe | Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 - This is the last version of this PDF viewer to support Windows 98. | 15.93 MB | 2025-02-01 |
| FoxitReader23.msi | Foxit Reader v2.3 - Not positive, but I believe this is the last version of this PDF viewer to work on Windows 98. | 3.66 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: benchmarks |
| 3dmark99max.zip | 3DMark99 - Great benchmark software for Windows 98se - Use "Futuremark / 78TR2-8DBDU-BMXXS" to register the program. More information and other versions can be found here - link | 17.6 MB | 2025-02-01 |
| Directory: desktop-enhancements |
| dos-here-v2.0.zip | DOS Here v2.0 for Win95/98 - This utility adds a feature to the right click menu in Explorer that lets you open a dos prompt at the location of the folder you right clicked. | 174.46 KB | 2025-02-25 |
| ps2rate.zip | This utility will help you with taming mouse movement issues in emulators like 86Box or PCEM. | 111.64 KB | 2025-02-26 |
| tweakui_1.33.exe | TweakUI allows you to customize all kinds of desktop related parameters. | 110.39 KB | 2025-02-11 |
| Directory: desktop-enhancements/fonts |
| Consolas.ttf | Nice monospaced TrueType Font. | 96.2 KB | 2025-02-26 |
| Directory: desktop-enhancements/program-launchers |
| qtbar_1_3_en.exe | QTBar v1.3 is a quick launch toolbar for Windows 95/98. | 873.15 KB | 2025-02-27 |
| Directory: drivers/motherboards/asus |
| asus-k8v-series.iso | This is the CD that comes with the ASUS K8V SE Deluxe motherboard. | 403.87 MB | 2025-02-15 |
| Directory: drivers/usb |
| nusb31e.exe | | 741.5 KB | 2025-02-04 |
| nusb33e.exe | Most people use this version for Windows 98 because the newer version re-stamps Windows as the ME version. | 756 KB | 2016-02-23 |
| nusb36e.exe | Universal Windows 98 USB Drivers - See this forum thread for more details: link - NOTE - I've read that this version changes the System info screen will show Windows as the ME version after install. | 0.95 MB | 2025-01-23 |
| Directory: drivers/vmware |
| softgpu-0.6.2024.40.iso.zip | SoftGPU v0.6.2024.40-Alpha3 (October 1st,2024) - This is a software and hardware accelerated driver for Windows 9x that works with Virtual Machines(VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Bachs) - see this Gituhub project for more information - link | 381.37 MB | 2025-02-01 |
| Directory: emulation/bbc |
| bbc-model-b-emulator.zip | This program emulates the BBC Micro, an 8-bit 6502-based home computer manufactured by Acorn Computers Ltd. in the early 1980s. This program can emulate a BBC model 'B' or the later BBC model 'B+'. Requires Windows 95 or later. | 1.33 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: emulation/commodore-64 |
| hoxs64_9x2k_1_0_8_9.zip | This is the last version of Hoxs64 Commodore 64 emulator that I could get working on Windows 98. You'll need a really high end 98 machine to get this to run reasonably. | 372.25 KB | 2018-04-03 |
| Directory: emulation/dos |
| dosbox-x-mingw-win32-lowend9x-20250101083049.zip | Dosbox-X 2025-01 - There is no installer, just extract it and run it. | 20.05 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| dosbox0.74-2-win32-installer.exe | | 1.39 MB | 2024-11-10 |
| Directory: internet/browsers |
| firefox-setup-2.0.0.20.exe | Firefox 2.0.0.20 - Last version of Firefox to work on Windows 98 (Released in 2008). | 5.77 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| ie6sp1en.rar | Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 - If you want to use the Legacy Updater site for Windows 98 - link you'll need to install this first because IE 5.0 isn't new enough. | 77.56 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| ie6sp1en.zip | Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 - If you want to use the Legacy Updater site for Windows 98 - link you'll need to install this first because IE 5.0 isn't new enough. | 77.47 MB | 2025-02-11 |
| netscape-navigator-9.0.0.6.exe | This is the last version of Netscape Navigator to work with Windows 98 | 5.78 MB | 2025-02-11 |
| retrozilla-2.2.en-US.win32.installer.exe | Retrozilla v2.2 - I'd say this is probably the best browser you can use with Windows 98 without using KernelEX to install newer software. | 12.48 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: internet/ftp |
| ftpwanderer-3.0.zip | FTP Wanderer is a multithreaded FTP client with the look-and-feel of Windows Explorer, and makes moving files between the Internet and your computer as simple as local file manipulation. See this link for more info. | 613.4 KB | 2025-02-21 |
| Directory: internet/irc |
| polaris_4.2se.zip | | 2.68 MB | 2016-02-23 |
| Directory: multimedia/audio-editors |
| audacity-win-2.0-ansi.exe | audacity-win-2.0-ansi.exe Audacity v2.0 - Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows. This is the last version to work with Windows 98. | 19.16 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| gwave525.exe | gwave525.exe GoldWave Editor v5.25 - Some say this is the best audio editor made for Windows 98. LLZMH2EV9 / 53C27B9ZN | 2.47 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: multimedia/mp3-players |
| foobar2000_0.8.3.exe | Foobar2000 v0.8.3 - This is the last version of Foobar2000 that works on Windows 98. | 1.26 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: multimedia/screen-recorders |
| camstudio2-0.exe | Camstudio 2.0 - CamStudio is a desktop software for Windows computers that can record all on-screen video and audio activity, creating industry-standard AVI video files and optionally turn those into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer. This is the last version to work with Windows 98. See this link for more info. | 1.3 MB | 2025-02-16 |
| Directory: multimedia/video-players |
| vlc-0.8.4a-win32.exe | VLC Player v0.8.4a - This is the last version of this excellent video player to work on Windows 98. | 9.24 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: network |
| netscan.exe | SoftPerfect Network Scanner V2.8 - This is a great utility for scanning your local network for other devices. This version doesn't have all the bloatware crap the newer versions have. | 675.5 KB | 2025-02-25 |
| Directory: reference/advertisements-brochures |
| ezscsi50.pdf | EZ-SCSI Deluxe for Windows 95/NT Ad / Brochure. | 101.51 KB | 2025-02-09 |
| Directory: reference/manuals/software |
| abyssws-x1-win-doc-2004.pdf | These are the docs for the Abyss X1 Personal Webserver from 2004. The interest in this manual is that it is for the Windows 98 version of X1. | 634.9 KB | 2025-02-10 |
| mysql-3.23-reference-manual.pdf | MySQL Manual for version 3.23 which is the last version to work on Windows 98. | 17.83 MB | 2025-02-26 |
| partition-magic-7.0-user-guide.pdf | With PartitionMagic, you can quickly and easily create partitions on your hard disks for storing valuable information such as data files, applications, and operating systems. Storing information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect your data and reclaim wasted disk space. | 1.23 MB | 2020-04-23 |
| qtbar-tutorial.pdf | QTBar v1.3 manual | 358.32 KB | 2025-02-27 |
| Directory: unsorted |
| dotnetfx-2.0.exe | DotNet 2.0 for Windows 98. | 22.42 MB | 2020-05-01 |
| Directory: updates-patches/patches |
| patcher9x-0.8.50-boot.ima.zip | Patcher9x v0.8.50 (April 10th, 2023) - This is a bootable floppy that can be used to patch a windows 95/98 virtual machine to fix two bugs that prevent these VM's from running properly on computers with newer CPU's (generally anything newer than 2017). The disk can also be used to patch the install .CAB files. For more information see the Github page - link | 513.85 KB | 2025-02-01 |
| rudolph_r._loew_patches.zip | Rudolph Loew made some amazing patches for Windows 98 that among other things, allow for > 512MB RAM. This is an archive of all his patches he sold before passing away on Sept. 11th, 2019. His website is still online but lacks a proper SSL certificate, but you can visit it at this link . | 5.42 MB | 2025-02-11 |
| u98sesp3-3.66.exe | Unofficial Windows 98 Second Edition Service Pack 3.66 - released on 2021-03-19. See this link for more information. | 120.52 MB | 2025-02-16 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates |
| directx_dec2006_redist.exe | DirectX 9 - Last version of DirectX released for Windows 98. | 59.21 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| dsclient.zip | DSClient is an update that allows Windows 98 machines to connect to newer Windows networks. You of course will also need to set LMCompatibility to 3 in the registry --[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\LSA]" LMCompatibility"=dword:00000003 -- Alternate source of this file - https://archive.org/details/DSCLIENT | 2.93 MB | 2025-02-01 |
| opencow-0.7.7z | Opencow v0.7 - Opencow is an open-source friendly replacement library for the Microsoft Layer for Unicode. This library allows a Unicode Windows application to run on all versions of Windows including 95, 98 and ME. | 74.5 KB | 2025-02-25 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-6.0 |
| directx6.exe | | 4.46 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-7.0 |
| directx7.exe | | 6.05 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-8.0 |
| directx80a.exe | | 24.74 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-8.1 |
| dx81.exe | | 11.58 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| dx81nt.exe | | 7.57 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-9.0a |
| directx90a.exe | | 31.22 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-9.0b |
| directx90b.exe | | 31.85 MB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: updates-patches/updates/directx-9.0c |
| directx-9.0c.exe | | 308.23 KB | 2018-05-30 |
| Directory: utilities/anti-virus |
| clamwin-0.98.7-setup.exe | | 103.55 MB | 2015-09-01 |
| Directory: utilities/archivers-compression |
| 7z920.exe | 7Zip v9.20 - This is commonly thought of as the last version of 7Zip for Windows 98, but I know that there is a 16.02 version that works also. I'll post it as soon as I find my copy. | 1.06 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: utilities/data-integrity |
| QuickPar-0.9.1.0.exe | QuickPar is a utility for creating Parity Volumes using the Reed Solomon algorithm. Parity Volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files (providing that you have a sufficient quantity of Parity Volumes to match the missing or damaged files). link | 489.61 KB | 2010-01-15 |
| Directory: utilities/editors |
| npp.5.9.1.Installer.exe | Notepad++ v5.9.1 - This is the last version of Notepad++ that install on Windows 98. Version 5.9.2 also works, but the installer doesn't. Alternate source - link | 5.34 MB | 2025-02-01 |
| npp.5.9.2.bin.zip | Notepad++ v5.9.2 - This is the last version of Notepad++ that will work on Windows 98. The installer version doesn't work, so instead extract the ANSI version in this archive to a location of your choice and create a shortcut. | 7.66 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: utilities/file-managers |
| tcmd1151x32.exe | Total Commander 11.51 32-bit - This is the hands down best filemanager you can get for Windows 98. | 5.83 MB | 2025-02-25 |
| Directory: utilities/font-managers |
| fontpage-3.02.zip | FontPage v3.02 - FontPage lets you examine and compare all of the fonts on your system. You can view any typeface in bold, italic, underline and 3-D. You can also print out a specimen page for any font, or print a list of them. | 1.7 MB | 2025-02-25 |
| Directory: utilities/iso-utilities |
| daemon347.exe | DaemonTools v3.47 - This is probably the most commonly used utility to mount ISO imaged as a drive letter under Windows 98. | 492.5 KB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: utilities/optimizers |
| ccsetup236.exe | CrapCleaner v2.36.1233 - Probably not the last version of this cleaning program to work on Windows 98, but close. This version works great so I'll stick with it. | 1.13 MB | 2025-02-02 |
| Directory: utilities/paritioning |
| partition-magic-7.0.7z | With PartitionMagic, you can quickly and easily create partitions on your hard disks for storing valuable information such as data files, applications, and operating systems. Storing information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect your data and reclaim wasted disk space. | 863.03 KB | 2025-02-09 |
| Directory: utilities/screen-capture |
| snagit725.exe | | 11.31 MB | 2016-02-23 |
| snagit823.exe | | 13.9 MB | 2016-02-23 |
| Directory: utilities/system |
| net-time-setup-314.exe | | 757.04 KB | 2016-04-27 |