by mh » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:04 pm
I haven't specifically coded anything in the engine to prevent it from running on Windows 98, but in all honesty I'm not prepared to offer support for any of the Win9x line. I don't have a 95/98/98SE/ME box to even test it on, I don't have an old version of the Windows SDK to link against (and thus ensure that I'm not using any API calls that aren't supported), I haven't installed any of the 9x line since early/mid 2000 (and even before then I was using NT4 on my own machines wherever possible), I can't even get Win9x drivers for a lot of my current hardware, Win9x won't even work with the amount of RAM and disk space I have, and - looking straight in your face - the Win9x line is a horrible old clunker of a 16-bit OS with 32-bit "functionality" hacked on to it that really needs to be taken outside and shot.