Okay I did some digging (okay my brother and I did some digging) and we came up with this.
It might be possible that your config.sys file is missing the correct commandline. This is entirely possible since win98 was never really ment to run DOS applications. You will need to configure them manually. Read more on how to this in the following links.
http://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm
http://retailsupport.ea.com/tech_support/h..._to/blaster.htm
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One last link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...seconfigtxt.asp
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