First post, by xtreger
May sound like an unreasonable request, but I still want to try!
So I've gone through a few forum posts online - apparently the only way to run steam games on Win98 would be through a steam emulator. I'm not sure which steam emulator to use for Source 2007 games in Win98. I have tried out a couple of offline non-steam HL2 packages that I downloaded. But they give errors like "MountAppFilesystem() failed: Failed to mount file system for application: 220".
Or "SteamStartup() failed: Failed to open GCF archive: "E:\hl2\SteamApps\source models.gcf", make sure its available and decrypted." (this is for the Vengeance release, and yes I've checked that the GCF files are indeed in that directory).
Since I failed to run HL2, my next rational thought was to see if I can try running an even more tough-to-run game: Portal. I have a couple of questions - is it possible to get rid of the above errors? Secondly, is there any guide to run Portal (or maybe even HL2:Ep2) on Win98 through some steam emulator? Or even through KernelEx?