I'm setting up a Windows 98 VM in VirtualBox with SoftGPU, I have it running but in the game I tried first (Roller Coaster Tycoon) the cursor flickers incessantly, and I can't figure out how to stop it for the life of me. Everything else seems to work fine, though.

The system works great with SimCity 3000, and I'm installing Roller Coaster Tycoon right now. Sleep mode still doesn't work, I'll try to "slipstream" APM into the new installation if I ever upgrade the HDD, but for now, it boots up so quickly that sleep mode isn't a huge deal. The GPU is some weird …

ACPI is not working, however. Apparently, they only released ACPI for Win2k and up for this machine (maybe WinME and up, but I can't find a download for that.) APM seems to require strange setup and a reinstall of Windows. Any ideas? The computer will not wake from sleep. Perhaps not a dealbreaker …

It worked, surprisingly hassle-free. Only issue was the video driver requiring a higher version of DirectX than was installed with Windows 98 itself. So now I have what amounts to a very high-end Windows 98 machine if I have my facts right (1.7GHz CPU and a 16MB VRAM Mobility Radeon 7000.)

Any tips? Are you experiencing any problems so far? If not, why not try it and find out..? Got a division overflow error when trying to format C:\ from the DOS prompt, but it seems to now be working when started from the 98SE installer. It told me to reboot after enabling large disk support and …

I'm trying to install Windows 98SE on an old Thinkpad R32, which is a laptop from 2002. Any tips? I'm using the OEM Full disc, which is said to boot from CD so I don't need a floppy disk. It seems like the PC does not officially support 98SE but all the components should in theory. It does have …

sprcorreia wrote: You really are lazy. I said Via download site, not product page. http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp So basically I need to individually download the drivers based on the chipset?

Earlier in the thread I linked to the download site.

^I mean, I've tried... can't really find them. Maybe I'm just lazy.

I just want to make sure it'll work. What will and won't work out of the box?

Then where are the drivers on the Via website?

Their website only lists WinXP drivers: http://www.viatech.com/en/support/eol/epia-m-eol/

^ What model number?

I've been on a strange hunt for an ITX board that supports Windows 98. (Yes, I'm weird.) I've found some of the old VIA boards, and some have floppy connectors, etc... but even the oldest ones only officially support Windows XP with drivers. Do any of them work with 98? EDIT: If I was hell-bent on a …

Let me add a bit of a plot twist. I have a Windows 98 PC. (I just have the urge to build something, haha, and I also want something more compact.) This PC uses an AMD Slot A Athlon 750MHz, an OEM processor from Gateway (it's a Gateway "minitower", but I don't feel like it deserves the label "mini".) …

^It's more of a retro thing, I guess. I know the graphics will be terrible, but I've seen Vortex86 embedded PCs/single board computers that might be compatible with Windows 98. The only thing that worries me is they are not compatible with Pentium Pro/2 and up (i686) instruction sets, while RCT2's …

To be honest, I don't care about Elite 2 as much. I'm just looking for a compact Windows 98 system using late 90s/early 2000s hardware.

I want to build a Windows 98 PC for some retro games. Mainly, I'm interested in- -Roller Coaster Tycoon Loopy Landscapes -Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 -Frontier: Elite 2 but I want to make the best Windows 98 PC I can... but as small as possible. Maybe even an embedded-sized system. Any suggestions?