The Return of The $5 Windows 98 PC! - Installing a French Version of Windows
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2021
- Thanks to Hassan for the donation!
The 98 PC has been absent from the channel for almost 6 months now. Today's video marks the return of an MJD classic, with a new challenge to go with it: Can I (a non-French speaker) install a French version of Windows without relying on a translation tool. Let's find out!
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Update: So Hassan reached out and told me that he did include the copy of Windows 98 in the package, but for whatever reason it was removed by the postal service and returned to him.
That's terrible! What an odd behaviour
@Davion K That Seems Like what A Office That Hates Home Version/Edition of windows And Only Allows Professional/NT No 95 - Windows 10 Home
Thanks USPS :(
that is sad
Greetings from Brazil, a big fan of your channel here. Have you ever heard of an operating system called PsychOS? It has two very interesting versions to be tested on this pc, one called PsychDOS and the other PsychOS486, I believe it would make a good video, besides it is very rare to find videos talking about this specific system.
It's really funny to see someone not understanding a language that you perfectly understand😅😅nice video!!
lol yeah it is, I mean if you consider Quebec french .. french, then I understood everything :-p
@Rathmox I'm there too mate
Knowing French, this was hillarious to watch 😆 One of my favourites so far!
It's simple: learn your french or go in the trench.
@@AndriuxDev or be french like me
Lmao same it was so hilarious
Moi aussi ! Les accent Français americain sa me tue ×)
@@hyd6922 Oui, moi aussi j'ai un accent francais americain
Clavier means Keyboard. And the reason why you were having issues trying to put numbers in the partition size is because since you had selected as French as the keyboard layout, you have to use the Shift key to type the numbers above the letters. When typing without the shift key, you're inputting symbols or the accents on the characters such as é â ï ô etc..
In German klavier is piano while keyboard is klaviatur but in French does piano translate as piano?
Edit: Never used German for keyboard, searched on Google Translate.
@@otherssingpuree1779 It does.
@@otherssingpuree1779 Interesting, I've never heard of the word Klaviatur before until now. A PC Keyboard would be a Tastatur and an electronic piano is just refered to as "Keyboard". From what I've been able to find Klaviatur only applies to the keys of a piano (or other musical instruments)
@@otherssingpuree1779 Keyboard is Tastatur
Azerty may be one of the most flawed keyboard layout I know of. Like, there's a key for ù, a letter only used in the word "où" [where], but there is no way to write a capital é, present at the beginning of many words and names, without using alt codes (that doesn't work anymore in Windows 11). But I can write Ù quite easily, even though it is never used.
Bonus: here's the number row but without the shift key: &é"'(-è_çà
Great, as a French speaker and AZERTY keyboard user I had a good laugh when you tried typing your name xD ! (I struggle the same way when some game forces the QWERTY layout on my AZERTY keyboard so I can relate ^^)
Also "ZORK" xD
Zork supremacy
rename azerty to "ZORK" layout
It's funny that the disk space was "just" 25 mb too large to be entierly formated.
The quirks of old computing are fascinating looking from today's standpoint. Too much RAM, too much disk space, too much CPU speed... Today there's never enough of everything (at least until we reach the current limit but that's gonna take a while). Kinda wish there were more limits on things today, it makes engineers get creative to get more out of less.
@@abadenoughdude300 There was never enough back then either, especially not for Windows. M$ were just trashy.
Michael's editing is getting more and more chaotic with every video...
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I love it.
Definitely interesting to see you install a French version of Windows. Only ever used French versions of Windows.
Had to install Windows 7 once on a laptop i was repairing and had to make it Chinese and once i made it Chinese i was completely lost.
isabella
lol why did you have to make it Chinese?
@@princesidon he was probably doing it for a Chinese person
I made a Linux installation Spanish once. It was panic time until I managed to set it back.
As someone learning french, I'm legitimately surprised!
@@kami4542 ok native
Je suis français
je mappele parle francais
@@Bagel_Le_Stinky My french is kinda rusty so idk but that comment is complete gibberish. My name is speak French.
@@dani.munoz.a23 yeah it says that. I knew it said that, I thought it would be funny.
5$ investment, 50 years of entertainment
Acurate
Merci Michael, tes vidéos sont toujours aussi incroyable, on t'aime beaucoup depuis la France, continue tout ça
From someone who's forced to take French: "Thank you Michael, your videos are always incredible, we love you lots here in France, please continue making them!
Tout a coup, je me sent moins seul a regarder cette chaine youtube. Mais oui c'est tellement vrai, on adore les vidéos a Michael !
@@oxyruby la meme xD
@@deltaclient4465haaaa enfin un autreeee
je suis d'accord
The glimpse of the desert wallpaper of XP 😂😂😂😂
and Steve Jobs Windows 1.0 Commercial
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@dalessandrokiko8324 Steve Ballmer**
I would love to see you cover Microsoft Flight Simulator '95 for a future video! That would be really interesting to see.
As a developer for a desktop flight sim x plane, I'd love to see this to
i’d love to see that!
@NoahC Agreed
Since I'm at a very low level of French, seeing Michael getting the word computer mixed with organization made me laugh so much lol
I took 3 years of French in middle school AND my native language, German, has a lot of words derived from French, so this video had me chuckle all the way through lmao
Welcome back Michael, please make videos often, i love so much your content
When we needed the $5 Windows 98 PC the most, it came to us.
Man, it has been a while since you featured the $5 Windows 98 PC!
Great to see it again. 👍
Yeah I missed it lol
I missed the $5 dollar windows 98 PC, and was worried you would stop making vids on it, and you forgot about it. It is my favorite topic on your channel!
As a Moroccan, I never really expected to hear my country's name in an MJD video.
Me too 👀
This is really cool!!
2 years ago, I recovered some Windows 95 floppy disks versions that are still brand new, and a Windows 98 Second Edition one with CD (brand new too, with packaging)
I'm happy to see back the Windows 98 PC!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers from France,
Valentin
Hello from Québec! It's cool to see you dabble into a french version of Windows.
ça fait surtout bizzare !
This is going to be oui-lly good.
NO
YES
Yes, MajorSky17!
Oh, Windows 11 has been officially released last week! It would be cool If you did a video running the final version of Windows 11 like you did with iOS 15.
I got the update but I haven't installed going to wait a year ish
@@thealien_ali3382 I installed windows 11, and it is very buggy to say the least. Smart decision on your end.
It's not a French PC unless it has a mustache, wearing a beret, sipping on red wine, and smoking an unfiltered cigarette. :)
Just clicked on the video and saw this comment. I'm wondering what on earth the video says to end up with this comment! Edit: then I read the title..
Oh true!
@@slightly-undisabled-channel Nothing lmao, it's just a stereotype of the French, that's all! :-)
@@WillOnSomething When I commented that I wish I had read the title.
@@WillOnSomething The wine and moustache thing is true though.
(french here)
Glad to see this think is back in action!
I never thought I'll see someone from my country doing this. I was really surprised.
Same Like i am proud of hassan currently
same.
why not?
@محمد محمود lol ok no need to be rude
I'm still waiting for the 5$ 98PC to run Arch Linux, It will be a joy to see that. you already ran debian on it.
Been waiting for this for sooo long!
Fun trivia - When a French version of Windows crashes, the screen doesn't go blue, but white.
Having Windows in a different language presents an opportunity to experiment further:
I believe you could theoretically install Windows NT 4.0 English & French versions to the same partition, assuming that the Program Files directory has a completely different name on the French installation. Simply install one of the versions to a WINNT directory and the other to a directory of a different name. Both installations should coexist in the same partition as a dual boot without issues.
Likewise this might allow other combinations like a French version of NT with an English version of 98SE, and so on, which might otherwise have collisions with a common Program Files directory. English 95B and NT4 work fine though, as their Program Files do not clobber one another by default, unless you install or "upgrade" something completely unnecessary like Internet Explorer on each.
Not sure about French, but I've used Polish versions of Windows all my life, going back all the way to the 3.1 days, and Polish 95/98 definitely used "Program Files", written in English.
Current versions still do, actually, but it got really weird since Vista and 64-bit. On Polish 64-bit Windows, you've got "Program Files" for 64-bit apps, and "Pliki programów (x86)" for 32-bit apps. Why the inconsistency? Beats me.
Then again, since Vista the localized names are just alternate display names for Explorer; the names in the physical filesystem are all in English.
It does have the same Progam Files directory.
For Windows the folder is named “program files” but when you open it in the file explorer the name is translated
Thing to note: Windows NT 3.x - NT 4.0 supports a creation of _no more_ than an NTFS partition size of 4096MiB during textmode setup.
I'm sorry, that's not true. Due to BIOS limitations you may not be able to boot on partitions extending past the _eight_ gigabyte mark but NT 4 has no problem accessing data partitions on IDE drives up to 128 GiB.
@@eDoc2020 uhh ok
_during setup then_
@@linuxameteur It doesn't make sense _why_ it would be 4 gigabytes as I thought 2 was Windows' limit for FAT16.
A thought I just had, what happens if you try installing on an already-existing NTFS partition? That might let you go up to eight gigabytes. Maybe even further, but then you'd have boot issues.
@Kernel NT It definitely can do more than 2GB. As others have said it can do 4GB which is actually the theoretical max for FAT16 although not compatible with all implementations. I didn't think NT let you format 4GB partitions as FAT16 but I just tried it and apparently it does.
i missed the windows 98 pc 😧 this was super funny michael, love it as always! 💖
Great video! I laughed so hard that I think that I hurt myself. Keep up the awesome work!
Great video, enjoyed as always!
Great video MJD. I have installed Windows NT 4.0 so much it's like 98's installation for you. Also french is my 2nd language.
I’m French :D but I never install a copy of W98, it’s cool to discover it and it’s funny because you’re not a French guy xD
Me too.
Ah bas salut les gars
Yo
@@marsisus bonsoir
Ouais moi j'ai installé win 95 mais en allemand lol car il y avait pas le français dispo
Great video Michael. I was really laughing at the bit where you said the word "ZORK". That's gonna be stuck in my head now.
ZORK
YAAAAAASSSSS!!! I hear you with "muscle memory" when installing these versions of windows. I used to reinstall windows 95/98 so much i had the product keys memorized lol (not joking). Keep up the great videos!
awesome videos as always man!
Thank you!
Yeeeees!!!!! Return of the great PC! Continue with your videos! You deserve it!
It's back!
yay
@@vibevirseyay 2
It's exciting to see Michael MJD uploads
I've been waiting for this !!
22 minute video. And the 5$ PC is back, how can my day get any better.
Hey Michael, I know something nice that you can bust out the $5 Windows 98 PC on, since you don't have anything that you can use the machine on. It's known as the Win9x Project, a custom all-in-one installation CD of Windows, which includes Windows 95, Windows 98 (first and second edition) and Windows ME. I distinctly remember messing around with this on virtual machines in the mid 2000s, and I'm interested to see it working on real hardware.
Right as I left a comment about wanting another windows 98 pc video!
7:48 How many of you had forgotten at this point that the title doesn't specify what version of Windows was to be installed? Sure enough I had.
Same!
this is amazing!!
I honestly didn't expect the AZERTY keyboard layout to play into this. It was very much like when I accidentally switch my keyboard input from AZERTY to QWERTY because Windows has a shortcut for it and it's way too easy to switch between the two accidentally, apparently.
It was a great watch as a French speaker who's only ever used French Windows for sure!
Good video MJD. This was very random lol.
Idea: Did you know about the Mario 64 PC Port? It would be epic if you try to play it on the 98PC with Windows 98 and see how it works out!
Can we talk about how the $5 PC is a main character in this channel 😌🖥️
It's a awesome pc would love to have one to mess about with ngl
Je suis français 👋 J'adore ta série avec cet ordinateur ! C'est super 👍🏼
Being French working in an international environment, I laughed because I routinely have the exact opposite problem with the keyboard! Those pesky M and punctuation keys, always moving!
J'ai un clavier d'occasion QWERTY qui m'a fait chier les premiers jours 🤣🤣🤣
Pas besoin de traduction merci ! :D Thanks for this version !
Hi micheal! I love your videos!
Nice to see that it's finally back.
Nice video!
@14:18 - It says"The installation utility cannot format this partition [NAME] on the disk with ID 0 on bus 0 on atapi, because it's too large. You will have to go back to the previous screen to create a smaller partition. To return to the previous screen without formatting this partition, press ENTER. To quit the installation program, press F3."
Windows NT4 Workstation, at this time, could handle partitions of up to 4GB in size, which is why you're seeing this error.
How do you use partitions of only 4gb? Do programs just split themselves up amongst the different partitions during install or?
@@bland9876 You're forgetting the fact that, in 1995, when NT4 saw its first release, many programs didn't even exceed 200 megabytes. In fact, they mostly didn't even approach 100. The limit was raised in Service Release 4, when the NTFS drivers where updated. Also, the _server_ family had different limits. There were constraints that the Workstation family had to deal with, mostly regarding limitations arising from BIOS configurations. Also, the fact that Logical Block Addressing limited hard disk size to begin with, had a large impact upon what you could and couldn't do. Windows 98 was released when Windows NT4 was at service release 6a, by which time most of its limitations had been resolved. But judging by the build number on screen in this video, I expect that this specific version of NT4 will have been at release 2 or 3 at the most. The RTM release did not support booting from CD ROM and this one did, so that strengthened my belief that the build used here is at least on service release 2.
@@slashtiger1 yep there is proof a lot of useless crap in modern programs (like visual stuff) that makes the programs so large now a day.
@@bland9876 True. And there's the fact that developers don't have such limiting constraints to deal with. Back in the day, loads of software was written in pure assembly language. Much harder to code, but taking up much less space. Nowadays, because of the tremendous speed of current hardware and compilers, loads of stuff is written in C, C++, C# and the like. Easier to code, taking up more space. But there's also the phenomenon of shared code bases, meaning that a program which was originally written for Windows can be ported to Mac (for example) with relatively little effort. But this comes at a price, because it's all far less optimised than it could have been. So, again, things take up more space than they used to.
@@slashtiger1 so they had to write each individual one and zero and know exactly where each one went? That sounds impossible.
I love the editing style lol
imagine if Michael did a French dub of this video lol
Bravo Michael, vous avez bien tirez votre plan lors de l'installation, même si vous aviez une connaissance préalable de son fonctionnement. La prochaine fois continue avec une installation de Win95 ou Win NT en Flamand s'il vous plaît 😃
C'est sympa comme idée ! (It's a nice idea)
Ah yes, good ole NT 4.0, I installed that many times when I did my network administrator internship, but never in French. I like your video on it and would definitely like to see you install flight simulator!
You should definitely show us Auto Route.. I bet the younger generation won't believe that such a thing existed and was useful (If you've already done this, sorry.. new subscriber here!)
i can’t wait for part 26 of this series
the 5$ windows 98 pc found dead in miami
Ah, I’ve missed the 98 PC. Good to see it back.
Good Back
As a morrocan, I'm surprised the french version of windows isn't that popular
It's so good when you see in your notifications that there is a new Michael's video, im thinking maybe to take out of my house an old Windows XP laptop someday, maybe it would be a good donation to Michael :P
Even if you can't speak a language , if it's a latin/germanic/european one, you at least will recognize some word or other. To go completely blind through the process you'd have to pick a Chinese, Japanese, or, quite fittingly since this came from Morocco, Arabic version of the OS.
This series has become as exciting as MultimediaJay's Dellasaurus
It always gets me when Steve balmer says and can you believe it reversi!
2:27 nice easter egg on clock :D
Bravo ! ^^
So excited
for a dude who can't speak french you did good
An historic comeback.
I really like this trick thank you.
Return of the king
Please note that Windows NT 4.0 has a partition size restriction of a maximum of 4GB. You cannot install Windows NT 4.0 on a partition that is larger than 4GB, so if you have a bigger hard disk you need to shrink its size to 4GB. However, the rest of the unallocated storage space in computer management cannot be used to format the rest of the disk. If you use a real physical hard drive, make sure it has a maximum size of 4GB, otherwise you will be in trouble with the size of the drive. Windows NT 4.0 is the only 9x version of Windows to have this limitation.
Um, none of the NT line have that limitation, thanks to NTFS.
NT is not 9x.
As a Frenchman i must say I was deeply disappointed by this video. I thought I would be given much more opportunities to point at my screen and laugh at you.
Effectivement c'est bien dommage ! 😂
Baguette 🥖
yeah I thought he'd mess up more but sadly he did alright.
@@CarranzaAlberto non.
ouais, y a pas eu beacoup de moments comme ca tristement
oh my , this PC has been through alot of journeys.
i was missing the $5 windows 95 pc!
2:26 That "But" AT THE END tho lmao
This PC as certainly been through a lot!
Back in the days I worked at a company that sold their own brand laptops at the repair departement. At this departement we also installed Windows. During this time I has to install a Japanese or Chinese version of Windows 98. This was very fun to do because the installer was complete in that language. I was able to install it due the fact that I had installed Windows 98 multiple times and by looking at the icons in Windows.
Nice intro!
Thanks!
Je ne m'étais pas préparé à voir une version française de Windows 98 dessus !
(Traduction) i wasnt prepared to see a french version of windows 98 on it !
So for future videos in that you need to burn cds or dvds have you considered buy rewritable ones? Because you are always (almost) burning cds and dvds and it’s way cheeper using rewritable ones. I use them on a computer from 1997 with a normal cd-rom reader and it works just fine and imgburn earases all the content before burning them
I currently use rewritable CDs and DVDs for projects with this machine!
Bon choix. I used to speak French and I am feeling that it might not be such a bad idea to install French copies of software on my old machines to keep it up.
I once set my computer to Japanese for a couple of months as I thought that may be helpful for learning the language. Well, I ended up doing most of the stuff by muscle memory, just remembering where are which options, without really looking at the text...
Besides, learning words such as "reboot", "properties" or "settings" isn't very helpful for actual communication.
It's random. What what if you could try to run some windows customization apps on Linux via wine and see what they can do?
I had a very similar gateway pc, except with was the 500mhz pentium 3 variant.
It was the first pc that was truly mine when I was a kid. I obtained mine in January 2002 when it was already on the verge of being obsolete depending on the type of game you played.
I somehow still got good use out of it for 3 solid years before the pc died in January 2005.
Essentially it mostly played blizzard games like diablo, diablo 2, starcraft, warcraft, warcraft 2, warcraft 3 albeit kind of choppy at times. Funny enough during the last 2 months of owning this pc i played world of warcraft on launch and it was playable in the sense that PVP battlegrounds were not a thing yet in the game.
Everything else was just year 1999 fps games like unreal tournament, quake 3, descent 3 and older 90s titles.
Mama didn’t raise no F3
Thanks Hassan.
Literally yesterday I was asking myself, uh-oh... what happened to the 98 PC? Well... now I know!
As somebody from Quebec, this video was quite interesting!
Greetings from Brazil, a big fan of your channel here. Have you ever heard of an operating system called PsychOS? It has two very interesting versions to be tested on this pc, one called PsychDOS and the other PsychOS486, I believe it would make a good video, besides it is very rare to find videos talking about this specific system.
_(looking at the "This will lead to a hilarious bit later on" screen)_ My guess: It's going to set it to AZERTY instead of QWERTY.
_(EDIT after the reveal)_ Well, whaddaya know?
I once did this to a VM and had my mom guide me since she's Canadian
It was quite funny to me trying to navigate and see what english apps still ran
Great vid, you should do a video on flight simulator would be pre interesting
this channel is my favourite
The 98 pcs diet should now consist of croissants