Re: My dream come true Windows 95/DOS machine.

Posted on 2023-02-01, 12:45

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I like DEC, never owned one but the ones I came across always felt like had high level of build quality. The Voodoo Rush is a funny card. For dos your actually better off using the onboard S3 video The Riva 128 is also strong here D3D games The Rush will be slightly faster then the S3, The Riva 128 …

---

Re: P4 Win98 Small Form Factor?

Posted on 2023-02-01, 12:08

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've a pair of Compaq D510's which had official Win98 support from HP although looks like they have since removed it's page entirely from the website. Not that it matters, onboard intel graphics, nice and 845G chipset all use easy to find generic drivers. Don't remember the onboard Soundmax audio …

---

Re: Mixed PCs - Midi racks - Micros and more

Posted on 2023-02-01, 11:11

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Btw. Your beige box top right looks really nice, specs? That was started me back down this rabbit whole of playing around with old hardware. You can read about it and also see how clueless I was at the beginning here. (last post has the current specs) https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t= …

---

Re: Mixed PCs - Midi racks - Micros and more

Posted on 2023-01-31, 17:25

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I like the setup, Nice and tidy. I get not wanting to put your hobby on display but I kind of outgrew that option but kept the somewhat rack option. https://i.postimg.cc/Pxd0dnLw/Rack.jpg I was surprised at which guests that come over and are genuinely interested and ones that just don't get it who …

---

Re: What is PCI-X?

Posted on 2023-01-31, 16:54

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Guessing your in the same boat as I was few years ago. I had a server of some type that I was looking to upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. As others have said Network and RAID cards are the cheap options, neither of which interested me. Graphics was the most interesting option but PCI-X cards …

---

Re: P4 Build Looking for Thoughts & Feedback for Future Changes

Posted on 2023-01-30, 12:24

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agree with everything above. I'd try the Win98 games and find what doesn't work in XP, good chance you don't need 98 in the end either. While the V2's aren't really appropriate, if your using them for glide games and like using real hardware I'd keep them over a V4 as 3dfx cards are overpriced and …

---

Re: G586IPV pentium build.

Posted on 2023-01-30, 11:58

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

PC screams late dos but what style of games are you into? 3D shooter, RTS, Racing, etc?

---

Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-26, 09:13

by

by chinny22

in Milliways

in Milliways

The worst part is, at least for me, when you come to the point to say, okay, it's more than enough, yet you can't convince yourself to sell what you don't need because it was so difficult to obtain them. Or similarly that the prices will continue to rise and you don't want to re-buy stuff at …

---

Re: My new Windows 98 build

Posted on 2023-01-26, 08:41

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I like the rubber strip around the hole cut for the front fan. Gives it a much less case hack feel and more professional, not something I'm very good at. Love the cable management tape, that's more my style, zip ties and tape can fix everything ;) Always impressed with your builds the hardware is …

---

Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:55

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'd actually install the ISA card now. The SB Pro or Vibra is probably the easiest starter card as creative is the defacto card of this era. Unlike the Live dos drivers, ISA cards don't need memory managers running so that should sort your USNF issue. Plus the cards resources (IRQ, DMA) should …

---

Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:42

by

by chinny22

in Milliways

in Milliways

Alot of us started by wanting to build a PC to play a certain games then discovered building the PC itself was more fun and find excuses to build more. Right now I have 12 game PC's ready to go. Starting with a 486 running Dos6 though to a Win7 Socket 1366. All PC's have something unique to them, …

---

Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-25, 16:11

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Basically what mothergoose was saying is both the 865 and 845 are so overkill for Win98 you wont notice any difference. Main limitation is 865 gives you SATA where as 845 is IDE only (probably some exceptions but I'm talking in general) I've 2 Win98/2k PC's based on 845 chipset with a 3.06 Nothwood …

---

Re: Trying to build a DOS & Windows98SE PC, but very new to retro PC building

Posted on 2023-01-25, 15:50

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Sounds like a good fast start, enjoy!

---

Re: mobo upgrade

Posted on 2023-01-25, 15:49

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fair enough, I never doubted you was just interested in the titles and now you mention it I think I've read before Bug's life is a picky game. Both those games recommend a computer around the 200/300Mhz mark so a late P2 early P3 is probably the right area in either Slot 1 or S370 format. on the AMD …

---

Re: mobo upgrade

Posted on 2023-01-24, 12:27

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would have thought you were well covered with a 233MMX covering early Win9x games and the P4 covering the later, which games are causing trouble? If it was me I'd bite the bullet and go down the ATX route as this opens up easier to obtain and better designed newer cases and PSU's Plus if you have …

---

Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 15:33

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Seems that the OP isn't familiar with DOS. "Restart in MS-DOS Mode" from the shutdown screen only executes the DOSSTART.BAT, located in C:\WINDOWS and doesn't run CONFIG.SYS nor AUTOEXEC.BAT. As I understand it dosstart.bat calls up the to .dos files in c:\ and renames them to the correct names …

---

Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 12:48

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In this case you should have 2 files in c:\ autoexe.dos and config.dos. Which are automaticity renamed autoexec.bat and config.sys when you reboot into dos mode. If you copy the contents of both files here we can see what's been loaded and what may be missing. Also I'm guessing D: drive is your CD- …

---

Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 12:16

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

How are you booting into dos? Boot disk, Shortcut on desktop, Restart in dos mode from Shutdown screen?

---

Re: World Wide Web support in Win 98SE & ME in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-23, 12:08

by

by chinny22

in Milliways

in Milliways

Not really sure which programs will still work, even 20 years ago I can only remember using email and lesser extent ICQ and MSN messenger oh and I spose Napster. Don't know/care if these can still work. You can use old browsers (something that is kind of interesting for me) using a proxy service. …

---

Re: My 1990-2000 gaming rig.

Posted on 2023-01-23, 11:44

by

by chinny22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It is hard to beat a Slot 1 rig. Late dos/ and most of Win9x era covered. The whole cartage style CPU is kind of special. BX chipset is about as stable as you'll ever get and the P2B is a very nice example of a BX board. The V3 is always nice. Having 2 Ensonic cards is kind of cool. I agree the …

---