I am attempting to get an old version of steam for Windows 98SE in hopes that it still supports the protocols needed to download and unlock games.
I think the reasons for doing this is obvious, I don't have to risk my ass on torrent sites trying to get cracked versions of games I already own so I can use them on my machine.
Any ideas where I may find such installer?
I have a 2004 version on my original Half Life 2 dvd's.
Try looking on some old game install discs first.
Atari 2600, TI994a, Vic20, c64, ZX Spectrum 128, Amstrad CPC464, Atari 65XE, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500
PC's from XT 8088, 486, Pentium MMX, K6, Athlon, P3, P4, 775, to current Ryzen 5600x.
wrote:I have a 2004 version on my original Half Life 2 dvd's.
Try looking on some old game install discs first.
I don't have any.
see if this works
You will have to rename the files to steam.zip.001 and steam.zip.002 then extract with 7zip
Atari 2600, TI994a, Vic20, c64, ZX Spectrum 128, Amstrad CPC464, Atari 65XE, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500
PC's from XT 8088, 486, Pentium MMX, K6, Athlon, P3, P4, 775, to current Ryzen 5600x.
wrote:I am attempting to get an old version of steam for Windows 98SE in hopes that it still supports the protocols needed to download and unlock games.
I think the reasons for doing this is obvious, I don't have to risk my ass on torrent sites trying to get cracked versions of games I already own so I can use them on my machine.
Any ideas where I may find such installer?
You'll likely have greater risk just browsing the internet without an ad blocker.
wrote:wrote:I am attempting to get an old version of steam for Windows 98SE in hopes that it still supports the protocols needed to download and unlock games.
I think the reasons for doing this is obvious, I don't have to risk my ass on torrent sites trying to get cracked versions of games I already own so I can use them on my machine.
Any ideas where I may find such installer?
You'll likely have greater risk just browsing the internet without an ad blocker.
I only intend to have steam connected long enough to restore from a backup I already have and to activate the game.
No that did not work. I also tried KernelEx with a modern version of Steam, but that failed too. Anybody else have anything?
This app will likely force an installation of an updated version witch will not work. Why not just download the stuff on a newer system and copy it over?
wrote:This app will likely force an installation of an updated version witch will not work. Why not just download the stuff on a newer system and copy it over?
Because DRM.
An old steam won't help either. It will *always* update and Valve will not serve the older builds of Half-Life 2 games anymore.
also the 2004 install media won't help you either - that's encrypted and will update Steam ASAP anyway.
I guess the legal illegal option it is. 😜
Cracking a game is not illegal anymore. You are allowed to use mods that prevent the software from requiring acces to end of life (not supported anymore) websites for unlocking/registration a game or circumventing mandatory acces to a disk or Internet for non multilayer acces. This ofcourse only applies if you have a legal version of the software you want use (this is not considered piracy). Any act of editing game files is usually not supported by developers and may result in restricted online acces in the future of course.
