Thank you, Lukas. I believe a serious crash with Win98 was first found in a public version 6.50, and I think jcl claimed that such a crash was fixed in the public announcement update thread for 6.60. I should have verified at that time.
Although it might be something else entirely, I'm only mentioning it here because, based on statements, I assumed that such a bug or a similar one, was corrected. Win98 is dated, I would not expect Win98 support for the newer version A7. I wanted to experiment with GSNet on LAN with an older machine, and apparently GSNet is only for version 6.60, the assumed last and final A6 version. (I can't afford to purchase another machine for testing, and I don't want to go through the trouble of upgrading the OS on the older machine. Also, I would like Win98 support for low end, low resource, distributions.) I would not expect support for an operating system to be dropped in the same higher version (A6) within two public updates. One of those two updates contained 'show stopper' bugs, and it's use was not recommended.
If it is actually an engine bug, and today I lazily assume that it is, no, I don't think the chances are great that the developers will go back and fix it, but it was worth a shot.
Quoting from bug page from 6.50 to 6.60:
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On some machines, not all initial windows resolutions were recognized properly (fixed in A6.58.0). This could lead to a wrong initial resolution and enven a crash on old systems (Win98) that didn't support the resolution set with video_mode. This is a severe bug and can be a 'showstopper' on Win98 systems.
), they added a couple of features and removed some of the DOS functionality to speed up load times.