No, unless it's an MS-DOS game or the pc game disk says windows 98 on it
Windows 98 home publishing is for Windows 98. Windows 98 programs don't work well on Windows XP sometimes.
You can try to run it in the compatibility mode. But 99% of games for Windows 98 will not work under Vista.
Yes the Sims 2 should work on Windows 98.
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sure do!
There is no specific printer that you "need" for Windows 98. Any printer with a Windows 98 driver should work.
Yes.
Do you mean the games say "compatible with windows 98?" and you have Windows XP? Games are backwards compatible. Meaning, if the games say "windows 98", windows 95 is ok (anything before windows 98 will work). But it is not forward compatible--Windows 2000, windows xp, etc. will not work. does this answer?
Support for Windows 98 was dropped after the 2.0 line. Firefox 3.0 and higher are not compatible.
Most games written for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 will run on Windows 98. Games that were only written with Windows 2000 or later in mind will usually not run on Windows 98.
You probably don't. Most software designed for 98 will still work with XP; the reverse is not true.