Maxstalgia - Windows 98 with 150+ Games, Abandonware & More (DOSBox + PCem)

After Ministalgia and Morestalgia now here's MAXSTALGIA with (up to) 46GB of Windows 98-era games and content for anyone to enjoy, in many Voodoo1/2/3 configurations!
Going through random things:
0:00 - Starting DOSBox
0:40 - Abe's Odyssey
9:00 - Comix Zone
12:54 - 3DFX Commercial
14:21 - Jazz Jackrabbit 3
19:09 - Kingpin
23:16 - Klingon Honor Guard
27:00 - Evolva
30:23 - WinAMP w/ visuals & MIDI, SID & MOD playback
35:17 - Shutting DOSBox down and switching to PCEM + Bonusdisk
37:00 - Virtual Stupidity
42:23 - Dune 2000
51:51 - Gearhead Garage
54:30 - Project Eden (?!)
1:03:53 - Urban Chaos
1:07:25 - Shogun Total War
1:11:11 - Red Faction
1:22:10 - Tex Murphy Overseer
1:32:38 - Ed Hunter
1:37:56 - Alien Incident
1:47:30 - The Typing of The Dead
1:54:11 - Neo Hunter
2:15:21 - Panzer Dragoon
2:30:40 - Dune
2:37:10 - No-One Lives Forever
3:13:50 - Zed
3:34:05 - 3DMark2000
3:40:30 - Half-life Opposing Force
3:55:20 - Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2
4:06:50 - AvP2
4:21:14 - Stepping through Config.sys & Autoexec.bat
4:22:13 - Verses (demoscene)
4:27:08 - Triton Gravis Ultrasound Promo (demoscene)
4:29:15 - Into The Shadows
Links to the base download with hundreds of game demos & more (9.2GB compressed, 16GB extracted) as well as the Bonus disk with tons of extra content (17.2GB compressed, 30GB extracted) are in a comment down below.
To save people storage and bandwidth I've put the "Bonus" disk in a separate download, you can add it at any time by extracting it into the Main folder and overwriting the dummy VHD-file currently there; it's not required to run.
For Maxstalgia I made DOSBox and PCEM share the same 8GB Windows 98 installation with several hardware profiles and a custom startup script covering Voodoo1/2/3 selections. Be sure to confirm your choice when starting the VM or the wrong DLL's will get copied and some games won't run; if you picked wrong just reboot and try again.
Both 8GB C: and D: drives have 700MB+ free space, the bonus E:-drive (PCEM-only) has 8+GB left to fill if anyone wants to add their own apps or games. In windows 10/11 you can just open the bonus VHD-file with Explorer and drag stuff in, for mounting the other IMG-based disks OSFMount is a perfect tool.
Technical stuff/notes:
DOSBox NEEDS to be fullscreen before anything 3D gets running or you'll likely end up with a black screen or garbled output in a corner somewhere.
A nasty bug I'm still trying to fix is it sometimes "losing" the voodoo-card after a D3D game and requiring a reboot. It also has a tendency to trip over itself on startup-- any errors or awkward slowness means you'll have to close it and retry.
Despite PCem being far more stable the huge performance differences made we want to keep it. (tip: crank up the filtering and antialiasing to the max in your GPU drivers to give the 640x480 dosbox-visuals a natural-looking boost).
If any app or game refuses to start try a right click to Properties and disabling KernelEx on its tab first. Toggling Vsync both inside the VM and in PCEM/DOSBox themselves can help with either performance or visual glitches like flickering.
PS: Also just noticed the visual input and output scale for some lowspec-profiles was not at 1x .. please do change that since it's eating performance while not adding quality to them.
Lastly in some profiles pcem's dvd-drive is either disabled or letter-swapped with daemon tools; you'll have to enter Device Manager and set Daemon's drive to F: for some installed games and shortcuts to work.
For ease of use I made some "Mount", "Unmount", "Dmount" and "Dunmount" (Daemon-tools) scripts you can easily use as commands to (un)mount ISOs from either DOS or Windows command prompt; beware Daemon Tools, KernelEx and DOSBox don't like eachother and there are some major stability issues there.
Network/Internet access has been preconfigured, for PCEM all you need to do is enable the NE2000-adapter in device manager, for DOSBox you'll also have to install NPCAP, edit the conf-file and switch up my "Realtek" adapter for your own.
(using vpn or hamachi you could technically build a network of these for "LAN" play)
The blurry Dune bit was because I turned down the Gaussian shader to compensate for the ultra low-res video-- that shader works miracles for quality in PCEM but it's a heavy duty one. Turned it off on the Zz low-spec profiles just in case.
Lost count of how many times I spent a day or more adding, testing and fixing stuff only for something to break, having to constantly backtrack and start over again; at some point I had every single game running fine but right now some are bound to fail. Just noticed a couple shortcuts, registry- and kex-settings are off so I guess I'll update soon.
btw WTH was up with that Project Eden self-playing demo throwing HL2 Interloper vibes?! *shudders*
Anyways there ought to be something there for anyone to enjoy; hope you'll have fun!

[@interlace84]

Here's a list of all the gamedemos in the base pack:
Folder listing for volume 98SP3 (C:\GAMES)
+---SOF2
+---D3D
+---OmikronDemo (The Nomad Soul)
+---RlrDemo (Redline Racer)
+---Thief
+---Red Faction
+---Prince Of Persia 3D
+---Alien
+---The Infernal Machine Preview (Indiana Jones)
+---Hidden and Dangerous
+---MotoRacerDemo-D3D
+---Overseer (Tex Murphy)
+---FF8Demo (Final Fantasy 8)
+---Expendable
+---I76 Arsenal Demo (Interstate '76)
+---WCW Nitro Demo
+---Urban Chaos Demo
+---Giants Mecc Demo
+---Test Drive 6
+---Warcraft III
+---Southpark
+---The Devil Inside Demo
+---I82Demo (Interstate '82)
+---Pac-Man Adventures in Time
+---Evolva Demo
+---Heavy Gear 2
+---System Shock 2
+---MGSTrial (Metal Gear Solid)
+---The Phantom Menace Webdemo
+---SWRacer (Star Wars Podracer)
+---NoxDemo
+---MageSlayer demo
+---Sacrifice
+---Shogun Total War
+---Delta Force Land Warrior
+---delta force 2
+---Croc2
Folder listing for volume GAMES (D:\)
+---GLIDEDOS
¦ +---BAT2 (Battle Arena Toshinden 2)
¦ +---TOMB3DEM (Tomb Raider 3dfx)
¦ +---TRUNF (Tomb Raider Unfinished Business)
¦ +---SW (Shadow Warrior 3dfx)
¦ +---Mario
¦ +---Gunmetal
¦ +---JetFighter
¦ +---GTA3DFX
¦ +---Ignition
¦ +---Q2DOS (Quake II DOS-port)
¦ +---TOMB (Tomb Raider 1)
¦ +---bat (Toshinden 1)
+---GLiGAMES
¦ +---WCPDEMO (Wing Commander Prophecy)
¦ +---TUROKDemo
¦ +---Rayman2
¦ +---Asghan
¦ +---QUAKE
¦ +---Q3Ademo (Quake 3 Arena)
¦ +---Braveheart Covermount Demo
¦ +---Carmageddon II Demo
¦ +---HEXEN2
¦ +---Pyl
¦ +---TR2demo (Tomb Raider 2)
¦ +---SBOAT (Speedboat Racing)
¦ +---Q2DEMO (Quake 2)
¦ +---SIERRA
¦ ¦ +---MaskCh1 (Kings Quest Mask of Eternity)
¦ +---Descent3Demo
¦ +---Descent3Demo2
¦ +---FreeSpaceDemo
¦ +---TribesDemo
¦ +---tr3demo (Tomb Raider 3)
¦ +---Diablo II Shareware
¦ +---NFS2 (Need For Speed 2)
¦ +---DeusExDemo
¦ +---Star Trek - Hidden Evil Demo
¦ +---Hype - The Time Quest DEMO
¦ +---IncubationDemo
¦ +---Klingon Honor Guard DEMO
¦ +---NHL 98 Demo
¦ +---uprising
¦ +---Uprising 2 Demo
¦ +---Thief
¦ ¦ +---Demo1
¦ ¦ +---DEMO2
¦ ¦ +---DEMO3
¦ +---Requiem Demo
¦ +---Driver Demo
¦ +---JAZZ3 (Jazz Jackrabbit 3D)
¦ +---Requiem Sneak Peek
¦ +---Die by the sword demo
¦ +---Forsaken Demo
¦ +---GTA2 DEMO
¦ +---Hardwar
¦ +---Heavy Gear
¦ +---Heretic II Demo
¦ +---IO Interactive
¦ ¦ +---Hitman - Codename 47 Demonstration Version 2
¦ +---mtm2 (Monster Truck Madness)
¦ +---Midnight_racing
¦ +---NBA 98
¦ +---Newman Haas
¦ +---Pandemonium
¦ +---Redguard
¦ +---Rollcage Stage II Demo
¦ +---Slave Zero
¦ +---SpecOps Demo
¦ +---Speedbusters
¦ +---Sub-Culture
¦ +---Test Drive 5 Demo
¦ +---v-rally
¦ +---Insane Demo
¦ +---Myth_TFL Demo
¦ +---Myth II Demo
¦ +---pod
¦ +---RuneDemo
¦ +---summoner demo
¦ +---TA Kingdoms Demo (Total Annihilation)
¦ +---Clive Barker's Undying-Demo
¦ +---WoTDemo (Wheel of Time)
¦ +---Anoxdemo (Aquanox)
¦ +---Kingpin
¦ +---Monster Truck Madness 2
¦ +---Killer Tank demo v2.0
¦ +---Earth 2150 Demo
¦ +---Resi2 (Resident Evil 2)
¦ +---Return to Castle Wolfenstein DEMO
¦ +---GK3DEMO (Gabriel Knight 3)
¦ +---HLDAYONE (Half-Life: Day One)
¦ +---Quake 2 Demo
¦ +---OperationFlashpoint
¦ +---Copy of Opposing Force Demo
¦ +---UnrealSpecial
¦ +---Outlaws
+---Wallpapers
+---ISOs
+---Extra
+---Unsorted
¦ +---Unreal95
¦ +---Half-Life Techdemo
+---2D
¦ +---COMIX (Comix Zone)
¦ +---Sword (Broken Sword)
¦ +---SPIDER (Spiderman Sinister Six)
¦ +---Doom II
¦ +---claw
¦ +---VFPCR (Virtua Fighter PC Remix)
¦ +---Abe (Abe's Odyssey)
¦ +---Commandos
¦ +---CAP
¦ +---Last Express
¦ +---RayKit (Rayman)
¦ +---road rash
+---Media
+---Vids
+---Music
+---SIDs
+---MIDs
+---MODs
And then there's still all the bonus & abandonware stuff left to check out ☺👍 enjoy!

[@RetroSmoo]

Oh wow Clive Barker's Undying, that was my favourite horror game from that era

[@zogmorp]

oh yeah! X-Mas in April! I'll have to wait for the weekend so I can dig in and get lost! The nostalgic feels are the sweetest ones.

[@interlace84]

*Base download with hundreds of game demos & more (9.2GB compressed, 16GB extracted)*
drive.google.com/file/d/1-oTSyws4UCdj0Phw872HuES6Tj-5I0QI
*Bonus disk with tons of extra content (17.2GB compressed, 30GB extracted)*
drive.google.com/file/d/1-ls7aAaRTT6VxjIP86pJhhzxJzYIF1sh
So despite being active here since 2007 I guess I'll have to wait two months right now to "establish history" on my channel so I can share clickable links in descriptions again? :/

[@RetroSmoo]

Oh wow you have Claw in the list, one of my favourites

[@interlace84]

Just tried Claw again with different settings, heads-up; if you experience any flickering enable VSYNC in the 3dfx-driver in windows 98 :) hope you'll have some fun!

[@RetroSmoo]

@@interlace84 i also tried it. Worked no issues when i chose voodoo2 instead of voodoo3. Also is the music missing? Do i need to mount the game iso?

[@interlace84]

@@RetroSmoo the one with custom levels under the "abandonware" section on the bonus disk is with cutscenes and music, just booted it up with a voodoo3 p2 config and it worked 🤞 should also work for you

[@nyxxic4550]

Is Drowned God included with this pack?

[@interlace84]

It isn't sorry, but I'm about to test it and will update on how it runs 🤞

[@interlace84]

It works! 👍 you can either open the bonus.vhd file in windows, copy the image over and mount it inside maxstalgia with Daemon tools (included), or use pcem's mount option to insert the iso or disc into the vm.