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 Windows Nashville build 999, 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).