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Re: Can you help me building a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on Yesterday, 22:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are no Win98 drivers for any Core2Duo platform. It may well be unstable. not true, 865-chipset s.775 mobos with c2d support and win9x drivers are a thing, the asrock 775i65g being one of the more popular ones of those. These do work really well for both 98 and XP. Of course you're right that …

Re: Can you help me building a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are no Win98 drivers for any Core2Duo platform. It may well be unstable. The CPU is too fast for many DOS games and cannot be effectively slowed down. And yes an ISA slot would be helpful too. You are trying to do what many consider impossible -- spanning the Win98/XP divide. You are much …

Re: Can you help me building a Windows 98 SE gaming machine?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not meaning to sound like a killjoy, but this seems on the extreme high-end for Windows 98. What are you looking to play on this kind of hardware with Windows 98 that wouldn't also work on Windows XP? Hi Leonardo, the fact is that Windows 98 brings me a lot of nostalgia, and back then I couldn't …

Re: Win 98se PC will only boot to DOS unless in Safe Mode

Posted on Yesterday, 18:40

in DOS

in DOS

dr_st wrote on Yesterday, 08:08: kolderman wrote on Yesterday, 04:50: CF/SD is FINE for DOS, boot drive or not. SSD is best for Win98, SSHD for WinXP. I also recall that CF is often far better than SD in random seek times. I have not heard that, but I am sure they are both a lot better than a noisy …

Re: Win 98se PC will only boot to DOS unless in Safe Mode

Posted on Yesterday, 04:50

in DOS

in DOS

CF/SD is FINE for DOS, boot drive or not. SSD is best for Win98, SSHD for WinXP.

Re: Roland SC-55 help

Posted on Yesterday, 03:27

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

No probs. Have fun.

Re: Roland SC-55 help

Posted on Yesterday, 03:03

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well if you have one, give it a try. You may need to adjust your windows mixer settings to accept line-in.

Re: Roland SC-55 help

Posted on Yesterday, 02:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Your motherboard should have a line in Jack -- find it, and get an RCA stero -> headphone jack cable to connect from Roland to PC. You probably dont have one of those lying around, but they are pretty cheap and easy to find most places.

Re: Roland SC-55 help

Posted on Yesterday, 02:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Do you have any speakers in your house at all?

Re: Roland SC-55 help

Posted on Yesterday, 02:10

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Where are you expecting the sound to come out?

Re: Looking to turn an old Pentium 4 Dell into a Win98 gaming rig, but I'm a bit lost on the details.

Posted on Yesterday, 01:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would an Audigy 2 SB0400 work in DOS through 98? I'm working on a fairly tight budget and I can get one of those for fairly cheap, and I can always get a 7x4 later on. You aren't building a DOS gaming PC, you are building a late-98 PC. That being said, yes it is possible with driver hacking. I know …

Re: Looking to turn an old Pentium 4 Dell into a Win98 gaming rig, but I'm a bit lost on the details.

Posted on 2021-10-25, 22:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The video card is a GeForce 4 MX 440 plugged into the AGP slot on the motherboard. As for the sound card, will I have to do anything to run both soundcards and have them play nice or will I have to swap soundcards based on what game I'm playing? Also, I don't plan on hooking this thing up to the …

Re: Looking to turn an old Pentium 4 Dell into a Win98 gaming rig, but I'm a bit lost on the details.

Posted on 2021-10-25, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Didn't Win98SE have issues with clock speeds north of 2GHz? I seem to remember reading something about that on here once before. I have a Northwood core 2.4 GHz P4 machine I'm going to flip to Win98SE when we move and I get it out of storage. It's always been stuck in my head that I'm going to have …

Re: Looking to turn an old Pentium 4 Dell into a Win98 gaming rig, but I'm a bit lost on the details.

Posted on 2021-10-25, 20:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had some folks say it might be better as a Windows XP rig, but I've already got one of those (Intel Core 2 Duo E7600, You are a LOT smarter than your friends, keep doing what your doing. Is this build usable for Windows 98, both for native 9x games and also for running in DOS mode? YES, very. …

Re: New setup

Posted on 2021-10-25, 19:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the CPU and board were tested before being sold, it seems highly unlikely the jumpers would need to be changed again. What board, VGA are you using? Photos would help.

Re: Wanna build a Windows 98 gaming PC, but could use some pointers

Posted on 2021-10-23, 22:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

JustRob wrote on 2021-10-23, 22:29: You sure? I tried some of my favorite on the old pentium 3 Packard Bell, they seem to run pretty well. Some will, many will run too fast or not at all.

Re: Wanna build a Windows 98 gaming PC, but could use some pointers

Posted on 2021-10-23, 20:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You ain't playing DOS games on a pentium 3. The good news is you can just swap it out with a Via C3, which will game fine up to around 1998, and slow down nicely for DOS games.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-22, 23:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Setup a BlueSCSI as the boot drive of my Quadra 650. All worked surprisingly well.

Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2021-10-22, 20:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

GOG- Teenagent (1994) OpenTTD (2004)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-22, 19:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What the actual....

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