I got this kinda cool card, I put it in my 486 and it instantly worked. It is like XTIDE except it's OG XTIDE from the 90s before XTIDE existed. Also it fixed y2k bug. It detected my 32gb CF and let me format 32gb. no compatibility issues with my VLB Adaptec IDE controller. It also cost me way less …

I just got a Radeon x800 XL (PCI-E) in the mail to test with my Windows 98 overkill system. I've tested a number of games with it, and it appears much more stable than the GeForce 6800 GS (PCI-E) I used previously. I got excellent results gaming in 1080p. This card does have a couple of quirks. My …

Got this Pentium 4 motherboard with 2 ISA slots. It should work, but I haven't tested it yet. I wonder if I could play some DOS games with ISA sound card installed? Well, it has the ICH5 southbridge so the real question is what PCI to ISA bridge chip does it use. If it uses one that supports ISA …

I spent a very frustrating weekend trying to get a handful of PCI video cards to work well with Windows Multimedia Edition (Version 3.0a). It was a nightmare. All of them could produce a VGA with 16-color image, but none remained completely stable at higher resolutions with a 256-color depth. My …

My memory is a little fuzzy on my setup back then. I remember building an ATX mid-tower computer in 1998 with a used Pentium MMX CPU, and I'm sure that I continued to add to it during 1999. Unfortunately, I don't have any e-mail records from that time and I didn't keep much of the hardware or user …

I’ve been playing around with a ThinkPad T42 (circa late 2004) lately. This one has a 2.0 GHz Pentium M with 768MB of DDR RAM, a 14” TFT display, a Radeon Mobility 9000 (64MB), a 128GB mSATA SSD, and a DVD-ROM drive. It would make a good Windows 98/XP gaming system, but the Mobility 9000 (DirectX …

Hi all. First time poster. I came across this topic yesterday, and I thought I would see what my Windows 98 retro rig (bare metal) could do. Here are the specs: Gigabyte GA-P75-D3 Core i5-3570 (3.4 GHz Base, 3.8 GHz Turbo) 8 GB DDR3 RAM (Win98 limited to 1GB in SYSTEM.INI) GeForce 6800 GS (256MB, …