You can make Windows 98 run on pretty much anything... with lots of hackery.

That being said, the biggest problem is going to be that there are not going to be drivers for Windows 98 for the newer hardware. And you will also have issues with games that are speed sensitive.

The best you can do with a newer system that will run even new games well, is to use DOSBox for the old games but that would still leave you with some games that won't work such as older Windows games.

You could always run Windows 98 in a VM, but that ius also not going to cover everything or work with everything.

There really isn't a simple or even hard way to make a all-in-one system that will play everything properly.

Okay, thank you for the advice, it was just my curiosity!

Short of using something like DOSBox, I don't believe such a machine exists.

- Win98 support is pretty much absent on chipsets newer than the Intel 865/875, VIA chips, Nforce 3, SiS, and ULI chips. This means your practical limit as far as sockets will be Socket 775 and AM2.
- 1985 means 286 levels of performance. Few chips can downclock this far, As far as newer chips, no way! A P4, for instance, will typically run at 486 speeds with caches disabled.

Your best bet would either be a slot 1 p3 upto 1 Ghz or a k6 in Ss7 system. For a slot 1 I would advice a 440bx and for k6 a MVP3 via chipset.

You can always go with newer but this limits your compabilty without alot of modding which could cause stability issues.
If you insist on that time span just use dosbox or vm's although I have no experience with games pre 386.

Well, probably with a P4 or core 2 duo you can make a pretty decent machine to play games from 1991 to 2007.

Build a Threadripper or Core i9 system and install PCEm. 😉

AllPlatformsGamer wrote:

Well, probably with a P4 or core 2 duo you can make a pretty decent machine to play games from 1991 to 2007.

I'd say even after that, I play Tomb Raider from 2013 on Core 2 Quad.

CPU: Core 2 Quad
MB: Any 775 with drivers for Win98 and Xp is good
GPU: ? 8800GT ? (It has drivers for 98 or only Xp?)
Ram: 8 or 16 gb DDR2
O.S.: Windows 98, Windows XP x64, Windows 10 and Maybe DOS 8.

Probably this is a sort of ultimate gaming machine because it can play also modern games.

Just build a modern system that can play modern games. Then use DOSBox/ScummVM for DOS games, and buy the Win9x and XP games from GOG or Steam.

edit: that's the only way I know of that you're going to be able to play games from all those eras on one PC.