If you want something compact, I would go with an old pentium 3 laptop. Most of those have win 98 drivers available, and some have decent graphics ability. I have a 900 mhz p3 laptop sitting on my desk with a geforce2go, and i use the thing all the time. I keep it plugged into a kvm and just pretend its a low power compact desktop. Its got a dead battery, so thats basically all its good for.

I don't like old notebooks because they have utterly horrible non-native LCD resolution scaling. Stuff gets all jagged and nasty.

How about a micro ATX board? You can get lots of those. Something with a 440BX chipset perhaps. There's an Intel uATX 440BX board called the SR440BX that has a NVIDIA Riva TNT onboard, for example.

how about the USmart's MC-1 (about $300)

Why don't you just buy one of these small PIII boxes from DELL, Fujitsu Siemens or IBM? Like these (the descriptions are in Polish, but you should be able to find similar on ebay):
http://allegro.pl/item1138663350_dell_optiple … mb_0_gb_cd.html
http://allegro.pl/item1138663363_fs_scenic_s_ … mb_10gb_cd.html
http://allegro.pl/item1124956587_komputer_1gh … b_20gb_hdd.html
http://allegro.pl/item1129106494_dell_gx150.html

@Davros, Something with a modern Atom chipset won't have Win98 drivers.

@Everyone,
I can build something with a BX board and I'm sure it will work fine (I already have one for me), but I wanted something even smaller. An old laptop with an external KVM sounds perfect, but which are good choices for Win98 games? These are non-3D games - mostly for kids.

Actually, it sounds like what you're looking for is more along the lines of a thin client. Something like a Wyse Winterm would be a good bet... just do a Google search before buying to verify that they'll support a hard drive or CF card, and have a Win98-supported chipset, but a good many of 'em are PIII-class systems. For example, here's a 9450XE, with a Via C3 533mhz, Via Apollo chipset, and can fit a 2.5" laptop hard drive.

That looks perfect. Thanks.

not really super useful running win 98 what da you think?

actually there are people at msfn putting 98se on net books i guess they are making and tweaking drivers them selves.

ASUS Eee PC and Windows 9x: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/122401-asus-e … and-windows-9x/
Compatible hardware with Windows 9x: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/107001-compat … ith-windows-9x/
Modern motherboards wich are working with Windows 98: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/97588-modern- … ith-windows-98/

Svenne wrote:

ASUS Eee PC and Windows 9x: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/122401-asus-e … and-windows-9x/
Compatible hardware with Windows 9x: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/107001-compat … ith-windows-9x/
Modern motherboards wich are working with Windows 98: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/97588-modern- … ith-windows-98/

A new motherboard with old Windows only crashes faster. 😁