can't wait for part 2, windows 2000 on a imac

Nice one, dude

That thumbnail is just cursed.

People often tell you to "pick your battles". Matt is the kind of person to pick battles nobody else would even think of.

Next up: I Installed the xbox firmware on a nintendo ds

What a completely pointless waste of time... I loved it.

0:28 whoa… i wonder where that is

When I was a kid my uncle used to leave me all of his old PC parts, I pieced together a super slow pentium 2 short tower and slapped a trusty install of Millenium Edition on there and was so damn proud of myself

"The CD driver didn't detect the CD drive, which I honestly somewhat expected." That is a sentence. That is definitely a sentence. _(edited on 2/9/2021 to correct a misquote)_

I love the druaga1 reference and I'm just gonna say if you have seen a 2007 imac in person you can easily tell it apart!

The Michealsoft Binbows joke at 0:28 hits different after the Nick Robinson video.

Retail versions of Windows ME were "expansion" or "upgrade" disks for Windows 98. The version you have (the non-bootable kind) were meant to upgrade from windows 95/98 to Windows ME. They had the full install on them, but were not meant to be used as a clean install CD.

At 5:47 I somehow read "BALLACHE" instead of "LBACACHE" and that describes this whole procedure pretty accurately.

And Steve isn' angry, he's laughing his ass off, and more likely to be angry at apple's engineers than you.

This is what adding insult to injury looks like. Love it. And the ridiculous amount of effort to get it done, condensed in 18 minutes... you have some perseverance!

4:09 you do the middle finger

Microsoft: This is fine Apple: Unable to open software, please upgrade to macOS Big Sur

You could probably take the PCI-E slot that holds the AirPort card and adapt it to a full slot to plug in a USB controller that actually has drivers for 9x. It's also possible that if your model has a discrete GPU, it _might_ be replaceable with a different card that supports 9x. I'm not sure what socket it's using, but looking at ifixit's teardown, they mention it might be standard.

2:55 *3D Objects, seems legit*

I love these videos so much. I appreciate how you don’t just show the results, but you also show the entire process.

16:38 Oh, that graph! I nearly chocked from laughing when i saw it=))

Can't wait for another year of MattKC! Your videos always bring me a smile!

Hell yeah, I was waiting for a new video. Thank you 🙏

him popping into frame at 3:40 scared the crap out of me, i thought there was someone behind me lmaooo

Everytime I get a MattKC upload notification on my phone I immediately drop everything I'm doing to watch it. This has already resulted in me crashing 2 cars and ditching half way through an important job interview #noregrets

I love it dude! Seems like your audio quality has improved?

I keep nodding my head at MattKc videos. Brings back the memories of old os models and gives me the sheer joy of seeing why anyone would do this.

6:18 That's partially correct. MS-DOS 7 sits underneath Windows 95 and 98, while ME uses MS-DOS 8.

Now you've got me wanting to see a makeup tutorial in the screen! Amazing video Matt! 😄

3:00 3D OBJECTS!?!?!!!?!?!

You’re a true genius! I love your work ❤️

“This thing is so reflective I could probably do a makeup tutorial on it” *flashbacks to ultimate Windows 98 PC part 1*

7:19 Windows Mistake Edition Setup

It's getting dark. I'm laying comfortably in my bed watching you install ME on an iMac and then... I'm almost getting a heart attack as I think there is someone standing right behind me. Turns out it was your reflection on the iMac screen all the time... thanks.

Bruh, your background music is awesome. I recognized a lot of those chiptunes.

brilliant work, and its good that u show times where u failed, because thats life, no one ever always succeed

I’ve never clicked a notification so fast in my life

Lock was not part of MS-DOS 6.x, but it was part of DOS 7 (Win95/98) and DOS 8 (WinMe) to help protect long file names. You would typically just type "lock c:" thought to allow those "risky operations".

Omg that screensaver!!! 👌. Such nostalgia

When I was a kid my brothers and I got my dad's old computer, running windows ME. So many good memories.

"The CD drive didn't detect the CD drive." Yeah I don't think that's a good signal.

At 4:33, I saw a reflection of someone putting up their middle finger.

Just have my late 2009 iMac just laying around, brilliant

You magnificent, cray person you, I cannot believe it was even slightly functional! I have a project to play with on my own 2009 iMac now haha

MattKC videos are what I live for nowadays

“Something you’ve probably been screaming at me through the screen” No, I only understand roughly 5% of what you’re saying and I love it

Really nostalgic seeing that Windows Millennium startup menu. It brings back a lot of memories for me.

I watch your vedio's everytime even if i watched it , because you are awsome MATT 😎

Wait, I think I'm hearing one of those lovely keygen songs around 5:30 ... Ah, those golden years

2:30 BEST STARTUP SOUND!

Wow, excellent video!

You are a -mad- Matt man!

1:21 RIP Steve Jobs.

I see you still have that NSYNCified Windows 98 machine. 😂 Great video, nonetheless! Really interesting stuff, as usual!

I was shocked you wanted to try .... I was more shocked you stuck with it lol Loved it!

I had this issue multiple times with many different windows versions. My system installation ran in to all sorts of problems when i had any external flash or hard drive connected. Funny that you had this issue here.

You're such a nerd xD Love it! just a tip: May want to increase the saturation of the "me" in the thumbnail, was a bit hard to see for me at least :)

This was great fun to watch, looking forward to more bizarre installation videos. What next: MS-DOS on your cat's neocortex?

I thoroughly enjoyed this video

this makes me question my existence everynight. Subscribed

"This thing is so reflective I could probably do a makeup tutorial on it" You know we need it, Matt. Also, did you know Microsoft actually intended it to be pronounced 'Me' (1 word) rather than 'Em-Ee'? Yeah, neither did 90% of Me users.

I remember ME being unstable and wonky back in the day. Made XP look all that much better.

Damn, nice content Matt. you got a new Sub :) Your videos keep showing up on my recommendation list 😅

The amount of backwards troubleshooting is amazing. It's my style

0:12 that was hilarious

6:34 "Congrulations!" I can't tell if this is chingrish or not but either way it's hilarious

Super cool video. That virtual machine through the fire wire cable blew my mind!

Nice thumbs up on the reflective screen. :)

My instinct would be to check if (1) drivers for older Nvidia devices might work and (2) see if anyone has made a universal driver. Then, if I was really dedicated, I might try to find a USB to keyboard PS/2 active adapter that worked with Windows ME. And then try actually using a PS/2 keyboard or mouse, depending on which was available. Also could try a USB COM port adapter. (I'm assuming you messed around with the Kernelex settings to try and get it to think that it was Windows 2000.)

windows: seems like this app won’t work, but we can run it in windows XP mode to fix it apple: this app won’t work. ever. don’t even try.

Yay! More MattKC!

This reminds me of a project where I worked to get Warframe to boot on my MacBook just to see if it would. Granted, it only ran at like 10fps, but did technically work.

Ah yes, my favorite version of MS-DOS, 7.10.

You could have probably used a remote desktop / VNC solution to use the machine. An old version of synergy might have worked too.

Congrulations!

nice video! great work

so, adding a bit here. WIndows uses int13h in real mode to access the HDD. msconfig can force that (it's Force ocompatibility mode disk access) which might be making the difference TBH. PS/2 devices are emulated through the use of System Management Mode, and as long as something is polling the fake PS/2 port, it should still be sending events. Modular Windows (aka SETUP.EXE) is likely also using 32-bit disk access which is why that's falling over as well. Dunno if you tried that, but if I had an iMac, I'd poke this. Apple's BIOS compatibility was pretty garbage all around, it was just enough to start NTLDR, and I remember GRUB had to patch some things to make Linux work on Macs.

He makes videos like once a year but when he does. Oh boy Is it worth it lol love the videos!!

oooh, that spikey warping sphere screensaver brings up some strong nostalgia for me.

Love ur content

I'm surprised you didn't try putting stuff in the Autostart folder to get it to run outside of safe mode

iMacs are great, but there's always a catch. *It can't run Microshaft Winblows*

The perfect level of satisfaction and frustration where it works well enough to say it works but not well enough to really do anything

If you haven't already, please do try and venture into the Windows 2000 hypothesis that you mentioned. I'd LOVE to see Windows 2000 working on this iMac or something close to it, as that might just be what I'd need to breathe some life into a machine of my own. Thanks for this video, mate!

the reason your retail ME disc is not bootable is because Im pretty sure it came in 2 versions, there was a "new pc" and "upgrade" version, I forget where I read but it was a thing they were doing at that time to make the cost to entry of previous owners to incentivize upgrading to this new OS.

I'd like to see this attempted with Windows 2000, which is a lot closer to XP so it might have better results

I've watched this video 6 times but it's so interesting.

I have waited a third of my life for this kind of lovely chaos. 😍

It's like watching an episode of House MD minus the drama. Basically, a man trying to solve an obsucre, rare problem that will never occur to anyone in the audience.

Matt did you just think you could take a clip of the druaga1 macbook running xp without any noticing? Think again.

I just wanted to screen savers and you delivered

That is wild, I just picked up a mid 2007 iMac off of Craigslist for like $40 and I was looking for something to do with it. I'm going to put Windows 98 on it.

I’m a simple person, I see MattKC notification, I click.

0:54 baby gamer

Hi - this was good to watch Just some things that may help When setting up plain dos 6.2 , there are 2 Cd-bootable 4meg and a 5 or 6 meg dos 6.22 iso's running around, it is basically a 6.22 start up disk but has some extra batch file to all fdisk and installing or upgrading dos, i have used this on Pentium 3- Pentium 4 , and much newer Pentium M and C class machines that are basically 2000-2010 win XP style machines or newer Secondly once the base dos 6.22 is installed in you cant read the CD/DVD then i use a USB (linux puppy 4 or 5 is good , small and fast on newer machines ) and i drop some other cdrom drivers for config.sys , they include the normal dos 5 and dos 6 , teac branded driver, toshiba driver, oaksystems, gscdrom.sys , videccd.sys I enable each driver in config sys - all grouped togeter and i give each one a seperate naem in its line in config sys - i just call them cd1, cd2 , cd3 etc In the autoexec.bat i used multiple lines of mscdex.exe and after the exe name i quote each of the cdrom names i used in config.sys - they mush be exact match This way when it boots i hi have about 5 or 6 different drivers and hope one works - i have had some good success this way and interesting enough the oak and the toshiba drivers usuallywork - even on dvd laptops once i get one to work i just edit config.sys and autoexec.bat and rem out the ones not needed The same with the mouse driver,again i use dos 5 oand .22 default exe/com's i use mouse.com , qmouse, ctmouse ( from freedos i have 2 or 3 verison of this one is better in legacy / PS2 i just rename them ctmouse1 ctmouse2) Not sure with WinME as it is dos based, but you should be able to create a initial 2gig dos 6.22 partition, set it up to bootable ( i dont know why your format and the sys did not work, usually it is 99% you do format /u ( the /u is for unconditional and not a quick format ) i normally do that first to make sure the entire partition is properly formatted as format /q just wipes the fat table and prepares the first few sectors only ( well its not what it does technically but that is the way i tell myself it is a quick cheat and not a proper format ) Once i know the partition hold a format, you can then do a format /s to reformat and make it system bootable, or you can just do sys c: ( or sys and the drive letter ) Remember - you cannot format is sys the drive letter you booted from, if you cdrom boot or usb boot that is fine, you can format and sys the hard drive, but if you rebooted and are on that working partition / driver letter you cannot run those 2 commands - well it is sort of self destruct isnt it Re the no working ME, what i have done in the past is boot of USB with linux or even freedos, i copy and install the suitable version or remote control software Real VNC www.realvnc.com/en/ there should be a unzip or folder runable archive ( not one that needs to run and install and attach to registry etc ) and edit the win.ini or systemm.ini and add it to the run= section, it will auto load and run the program, once that is done you can remote control that pc from another system Note for win98x or similar do you do need a very early version 4 to work on these older windows Regards George

Reminds me of that scene where Bean replaced Whistler’s Mother with his own drawing. I remember running Windows ME in the early 2000’s and it used to blue screen multiple times a day along with other problems on the hardware it was actually created to run on. A clean re-install every month resolved some issues but doing so meant having to remove every stick of RAM but one and then replacing all 512MB when done. I’m surprised the abomination you created worked at all. Quoting Victor Frankenstein "It’s Alive".

well 2:03 i nfact if you install win 10 on an Hard drive, swap that HardRive inside the mac, it should boot windows, granted there is no driver support but it boots... So if you just dd if=/WindowsHDD/ of=/MacOsHDD/ you can get windows on your mac Whitout actually swapping any hard drive. Aditionally you can dd if=/MacosHDD/ of=/Externalhdd/ | and proceed to Boot MacOS in a Virtual Machine from any other Machine/OS

it’s not a mattkc video if there isn’t a catch somewhere

Ah, i remember my highschool. Intel iMacs G5 512MB RAM with installed Linux Mint on which was running Virtual Machine with Windows XP. Brilliant user experience

Gotta love that outro