Meridian 59 on WIndows 9x?

[Di'orden]

Is there any way to get this running under Windows 9x, in particular 98 FE? I previously attempted to install the game under 95, but it would fail to unpack archive.dll. Once I upgraded to 98 FE I attempted another install, which went smoothly, but the game required d3d9.dll. So I installed DX9 and tried again, which helped, but even under Kernal EX I now get a generic error message and a crash log (dunno exactly what it said but I can find out).

I'm fairly certain that old clients will work under 98 FE but they aren't up to date and don't even connect to the current servers. So it seems I'm stuck with the modern client, but 98 FE can't even read MP3 files so god knows what other compatibility issues there could be.

Getting this running would be a dream come true, but at this point I feel like I'm asking too much :(

What do?

[OfficialFON]

Is this because you have no WinXP or more recent OS?

[Di'orden]

I do, I just like playing old games on my old PC. 640x480 classic mode in Windows 7 works, but I really want it running in the same environment that I run my old windows and DOS games.

[akirmse]

Sorry, I don't think this will work. As part of modernizing the code over the years, we moved up to more recent compilers and libraries that probably don't support Windows 9x.

[Di'orden]

Ah, too bad :/