Apps & Games

This page will contain download links for old software which is compatible with vintage operating systems.

Note: this is not meant to be a historical museum that catalogs all old versions of software, but instead is a hand curated list of the “best / most current” versions of software that were still compatible with specific old operating systems. For example, to house a download link for the final versions of Firefox or Internet Explorer, mIRC, WinZip, etc. which were compatible with various legacy operating systems.

See the General Links for websites which do house a much wider variety of vintage software, if you are interested in looking up the “1.0 versions” or need a specific older version of something.

All other downloads on this page are self-hosted here on this site!

Table of Contents

• General Links
• Windows 3.1
• Windows 98

General Links

• Retro Stuff (RemoteCPU)^https has an archive of old software and drivers for DOS through Win XP and Macintosh.

  It includes Updates & Service Packs, drivers, and a selection of applications grouped by operating system.

• OldVersion.com is a thorough archive of old versions of many different pieces of software.

  They have utilities like WinRAR and Daemon Tools, security programs like AVG Anti Virus, and tons more, with many old versions archived for each.

Windows 3.1

Software here should be compatible with Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and may also run on newer (Windows 9x) versions.

Games

• BOWEP: Best of Windows Entertainment Pack (1.4 MiB floppy .img)

  This is a collection of classic 16-bit Windows 3.1 games including Chip’s Challenge, Rodent’s Revenge, SkiFree, Taipei and others.

Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer 5.0.1 (setup .exe, 8.9 MB)
• Netscape Navigator 3.04 (setup .exe, 5.6 MiB)

Screen Savers

• After Dark 3.06 (7z archive with two floppy disk .img, 2.6 MiB)
• After Dark 3.0 - The Simpsons (7z archive with two floppy disk .img, 2.6 MiB)

Windows 98

See also: Drivers & Tools for things like DirectX and KernelEx!

Web Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox
  • Firefox 2.0.0.20 (setup .exe, 5.8 MiB)
    • This is the latest version of Firefox to natively support Windows 98. For the newer versions, KernelEx is required - grab it from the Drivers & Tools page!
  • Firefox 3.6.28 (setup .exe, 8.2 MiB)
  • Firefox 10.0.12 ESR (setup .exe, 15.1 MiB)
• Opera 10.10 (setup .exe, 8.7 MiB)

Internet

• mIRC 6.3.5 (setup .exe, 1.7 MiB)

  mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, which (should) still work today on current IRC servers!

Utilities

• 7-zip 9.2.0 (setup .exe, 1.1 MiB): opens .zip and .7z files.
• WinZip 9.0 (setup .exe, 3.9 MiB): opens .zip files.
• WinRAR 3.80 (setup .exe, 1.2 MiB): opens .rar archives.

Page last updated on May 20, 2026