Windows 98 build 1998
| Build of Windows 98 | |
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| Release name | Release to Manufacturing |
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| OS family | Windows 9x |
| Version number | 4.10 |
| Build number | 1998 |
| Architecture | x86 |
| Compiled on | 1998-05-11 |
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Windows 98 build 1998 is the official RTM build of Windows 98, internally known as RC6/1998.6.[1] It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and was released to the public one month later on 25 June 1998.
This release of Windows 98 is generally perceived as unstable and buggy, such as the 49.7-day limit bug still being present since Windows 95, and a lack of Year 2000 compliance, which was fixed with two Year 2000 updates released in 1999. These updates would be included in the Service Pack 1 release, while other issues would later be addressed in the Second Edition release.
The build's version number "1998" refers to Windows 98's release date.
NFO file[edit | edit source]
The following NFO files were included as part of the PWA and X-Force releases.
Pirates With Attitudes
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▄▓▓▀ Proudly Presents ...
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║ [ Windows '98 Final - Retail Full Setup ] May 17, 1998 ║
╟───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ Supplier .....: PWA Gods │ Type .....: Operating System ║
║ Cracker ......: N/A │ Video ....: ║
║ Packager .....: Murmillius │ Audio ....: ║
║ Protection ...: Serial Number │ # Disks ..: 1 ║
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Here it is: Windows '98 Final release - Retail Full Install!
While every other group will be bringing you so many good programs
for this operating system, it's PWA that brings you the OS itself.
It is fortunately for the user community that this is the case or
you would probably have ended up with a ripped down release
from some other lame group missing important system files like
KRNL386.exe, because disklimits are more important nowadays to these
people than a working release.
People that still believe in quality have only one option :
Pirates with Attitudes.
Greets fly out to all Hardworking people in PWA.
Note to other groups:
This *IS* final. When you get your CD's, it's very likely the file
dates will differ as the dates get time stamped on the CD at pressing
time, however if you CRC check the CD with this release, you'll see the
files are all identical (make sure you use the FULL RETAIL CD to check,
not an upgrade or OEM version). We're just going to wait to release
tnis to see if MS decides to make any last minute changes because
of the stuff going on with the US Dept. of Justice.
Retail FULL Install Key: <product key removed>
Install Notes:
The way this has been zipped up is as follows:
1 ZIP file labeled RETAIL FULL SETUP
21 ZIP files labeled Win98 CABs
Several ZIP files labelled online service clients (only necessary for AOL,
MSN, Compuserve, etc).
You need to download the CABS and the RETAIL SETUP and unzip/unrar
everything into one directory. The reason for this is that as soon
as I get install keys, I can release RETAIL UPGRADE, OEM FULL and
OEM UPGRADE versions and they will only take 4 meg each (the CAB zips
are generic thruout all these versions, I can just package up the
differences in seperate zips to save everyone space and time). You just
unzip whichever one you want into the same directory as the generic
CAB zips.
-/ This is PWA \-
< 16 May 1998 >
┌──────────────────┬─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
│ Council .........│ Code3, Dark Lord, Dream Weaver, Murmillius, Rambone,
│ │ Shiffie
├──────────────────┼─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
│ Senior Members ..│ Akasha, Gumby, Mercy, Oyl Patch, Stoned, The Technic
├──────────────────┼─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
│ Members .........│ Acidman, Aironz, Angelface, BadBrad, Bunter, Chowdery,
│ │ Codebreaker, Corv8, DaPhantm, Disc Killer, Disk Killer,
│ │ DJpaul, El Cid, EzD, Frost, Guip, Ico, IceB, Ivan,
│ │ The Judge, Kewe, Lost Soul, Magellan, Marduk, Muadib, Nagumo,
│ │ Ofd, Patriarch, Prozac, Ryu, Shadowman, SilverB, Skylark,
│ │ neTyx, Single Minded, SpyNut, Sugar, The Jerk, Vampyre,
│ │ Virtual Power, Voltan, Warlock
├──────────────────┼─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
│ Senior Couriers .│ Bass, Diamond Dog, Gizmo, Mario Lemieux, Skitch
├──────────────────┼─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
│ Couriers ........│ Bandito, Cabdriver, Darkforce, Jono, Kang6902, Mavian,
│ │ Mindreader, Psyber, Satan, Scuzi, Trix, Vorteqz, X-Frog
└──────────────────┴─────────────────--- - - · · ·· ·
PWA Boards/Sites
┌──────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ FTP Site Names │ Status ···················· │ SiteOP ············· │
├──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ Sentinel ·········· │ Inet World HQ ············· │ Xxxx/Xxxxxxxx ······ │
│ Boners Domain ····· │ Inet U.S. HQ ·············· │ Xxxxxxx ············ │
│ Reflection ········ │ Inet Euro HQ ·············· │ Xxxxxxx ············ │
│ Vampyres Lair ····· │ Inet World Courier HQ ····· │ Xxxxxxx ············ │
│ United Central ···· │ Inet US Courier HQ ········ │ Xxxx ··············· │
│ Digital Corruption │ Inet EURO Courier HQ ······ │ Xxx ················ │
│ Snowland ·········· │ Inet Release World HQ ····· │ Xxxxx ·············· │
│ The Rock ·········· │ Inet Release US HQ ········ │ Xxxxxxxx ··········· │
│ Manhattan Project · │ Inet Member HQ ············ │ Xxx ················ │
└──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
If you are going to do it ... Do it with an ATTITUDE!
PWA..... a juggernaut that rolls on thru 1998
* Please note that PWA is NOT accepting pay sites of any nature.. We're *
* in this for fun and entertainment, not to try to make ourselves rich. *
* PWA also does not accept new BBS', FTP sites, net couriers, graphics *
* artists or programmers (including PPE's... PCB, may it rest in peace) *
┌───────────────────────────────┤ Final Note ├─────────────────────────────┐
│ Support the software companies! If you enjoy using a program or using a │
│ Util, consider buying it! Someone has to make it worth the programmer's │
│ effort to keep up the high standards.. They made it, so they DESERVE it! │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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P R E S E N T S
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 UPGRADE FULL SHRINKWRAP │
│ │
└┬────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ Type..........: OS │ Packager......: TEAM XFORCE │
│ Publisher.....: WINDOWS │ Cracker.......: TEAM XFORCE │
│ Supplier......: REDIR │ Release Date..: JUN 06TH 1998 │
└────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Release notes.. │
└┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ │
│ This is the full upgrade shrinkwarp │
│ It is Windows 98 .. What else to say :) │
│ │
│ CD-KEY <product key removed> │
│ │
│ │
│ When so many groups bring you crap fakes non-working, X-FORCE always │
│ gets you the Best of the Best. ACCEPT NO IMITATION ! │
│ │
│ X-Force 1998! │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Group News & Greetings.. │
└┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ │
│ │
│ OUR DiAMONDS-4-EVER GREETiNGS MUST GO TO : │
│ │
│ Stingray , Mach One , Ones Wally , Slain , Wildchild , │
│ BlackMagic , Wayward , The Riddler , Longshot , SWC , Dim │
│ Blueyes, Winterhawk, Solar and the ones who deserve it ... │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ The loyal ones.. │
└┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ │
│ LEADERS │
│ ───────────────────────────────────────── │
│ MACH ONE - ONES WALLY - STINGRAY │
│ │
│ │
│ SENIORS │
│ ───────────────────────────────────────── │
│ KAPITANO - MR SAINT - THE RIDDLER │
│ │
│ │
│ COORDINATORS │
│ ─────────────────────────────────────── │
│ BLUEYES - BiZZY - BLACKMAGIC │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ Bugs Bunny - Defiance - Dim - Dagobah - Reanimator - Dark Thunder - Mc │
│ Old El Paso - Black Bull - Utopian - Mad Grafx - Design - Merlin - Acp │
│ Ang3l - Yum Yum - WildChild - Hurricane - Regor - Bate - Syrup - RRS │
│ Zupply - Boco - Trek - Da Conspiracy - Izzy - Nelapsi - TGK - Midi Hell │
│ Miropolis - God Of Warez - Zero - Boozer - Mr Volley Ball - The Pharao │
│ Random - Bunter - Energizer - Dalamar - TGF- Luck - ViperRT - Intruder │
│ Energizer - KSpades - Jbob - LegacyRiot - Redir - Claude - Dual Standard│
│ Werner & Tardy - (Super) Luke (Argentine) - OozinSuzn - Slingshot │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
* all sysops are full members *
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Famous X-Force boards around the globe.. │
└┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ │
│ DRAGON LANCE WORLD HEADQUARTERS Dalamar 50 LINES │
│ │
│ 7 Seas USA Headquarters James West 10 Lines │
│ AKIRA CANADA Headquarters Sir Aragon 10 Lines │
│ Strawberry Fields EURO Headquarters Deuteros 10 Lines │
│ Xxxxxxxxx GERMAN Headquarters Anonymous 7 Lines │
│ Vax Museum SPAIN Headquarters Ones Wally 6 Lines │
│ │
│ Exxxxx X-Force Ftp WORLD HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Dxxxxx X-Force Ftp USA HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Sxxxxx X-Force Ftp EURO HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Hxxxxx X-Force Ftp US COURIER HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Rxxxxx X-Force Ftp EU COURIER HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Cxxxxx X-Force Ftp US MEGA HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Xxxxxx X-Force Ftp US C HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Axxxxx X-Force Ftp INET HQ Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ Hxxxxx X-Force Ftp MEMBER Xxxxxxx 50 Lines │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ How to reach us.. │
└┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┘
│ │
│ If you think you should be in the .nfo but you are not, please call up │
│ a HQ and leave a message to a senior member , or just join the channel │
│ #x-force on irc (effnet) , or email leaders@xforce.net │
│ │
│ If you want to be a part of the force email : leaders@xforce.net │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
[----------------- X-FORCE 1998 SMOKING THE COMPETITION --------05/10/98-]
Changes from build 1900.6[edit | edit source]
In the About box of Internet Explorer 4, "Update Versions" now lists SP1a instead of SP1.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Setup
Boot screen
Login
First boot
My Computer
Control Panel
System Properties
Shutdown screen
Safe to shutdown screen
Demo
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
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x86 English CD [Technical Beta]
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