Windows 98 build 1353

Windows 98 build 1353 is the official Developer Release build of Windows 98, which was shared by BetaArchive user marcoguy on 19 December 2016.

Changes

 * DirectX 5.0 has been removed in this build.

Additional features
The installation files for these apps are included in the following subfolders in the /BETAONLY folder of the installation disc: The /MENUANI subfolder includes registry files to enable the slide menu animations, which were introduced in the previous build, as seen in Windows 98 and later.
 * Internet Explorer 3.01 (4.70.1215)
 * NetMeeting 2.0 Beta 2 (4.00.1266) /NM20
 * Windows Scripting Host 1.0 build 21 /WSH
 * ACPI Table Checker Hardware Compatibility Tool 0.9.01 /ACPITOOL
 * ATI Rage display driver /ATIRAGE
 * MSReport 1.1 (a bug reporting tool) /MSREPORT

The /BOOTFLOP subfolder includes files used for a bootdisk. However,  and   are named with a   extension.

ACPI
ACPI support is in very early development and crashes easily. Turn off ACPI or setup can crash with a red screen of death during hardware setup (used in early builds for ACPI errors).