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First post, by Nunoalex

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Hi people!

For sure this has been asked here over and over .... but here it goes...
Is there some place around with some kind of repository of hard disk snapshots of a typical period correct windows 98 build ?

I have seen here threads about what is the best or essential software for Win98 and the usual suspects come up like winamp, office, zip, deamon tools etc etc

But what I am looking for is more a personalized image of a system we would find on someone's desktop with quirky software of the time there like some shareware, a browser with already some period bookmarks... some obscure games, an image folder with some gif humor.. etc etc ... maybe even an Encarta installation
You know an alive system of the period

Over the time I have come across some hard drives with windows 98 installations in them but most of the time they were very boring just with office a handful of games and some personal files
I was aiming for a more colorful well used all round system

Because I would like to make a genuine Win98 machine but my memory already fails me of many things of the era

Thank you for your help

Reply 1 of 4, by ldeveraux

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Pretty sure sharing an image like that would break copyright laws.

Reply 2 of 4, by wierd_w

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Also licensure.

Old OSes were 'per install', and cloned images like that count.

Big box stores had lawyers calling other lawyers to make restore CDs legal. Us normal folk? Not so much.

Reply 3 of 4, by Shponglefan

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Aside from copyright being an issue, I can't imagine too many people would have no only created a disk image of a Win 98 install (with all software), but also then uploaded that to the internet. Especially since any such installs would be specific to the original hardware and not as much use on a random system.

Your best bet is to just obtain intact systems from that era and see what software is on them. It's a crap shoot though, because as you've found out, a lot of them are pretty boring.

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Reply 4 of 4, by zapbuzz

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I have seen them on internet archive they used norton ghost to make images of desktops you need to browse for them but you'll probably need your drivers after booting. Thing is they are usually themed for anime and visual styles so they might be interesting.