Heyyyyyyyyo,
I got a Windows 98 pc. No agp or Isa slots. Only pci and ide. I want to know about some cool hardware that I could dig up from online nd install. Lgr oddware type shit. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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How useless do you want it to be?
What are the specs.
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Try a power cord!
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ux-3 wrote on 2024-08-05, 20:12:Try a power cord!
Good idea
Alright dude I might not be the best poster but let's give this thread some credibility
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A dedicated TV card would be pretty useless these days.
Well a 98 era analog one would be, but there were digital capable ones on PCI, not sure they got 98 drivers though. You can still use them to capture stuff off VCR though.
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TV tuner is a good idea. You sould also consider a zip drive, external modem, video card with TV out, a flat bed scanner to scan photos that you can print on your injet printer, and a physX card to really get those games moving.
Cue-cat, hand scanner, MPEG 1 card, MPEG2/DVD card, Intel QX4, Intel Play Me2Cam, MP3 card, 1st gen Creative Nomad parallel port cradle and 16MB MP3 player. PCMCIA bay. Tape drive, MO drive.
Talking of troll value, saw an 8 track player that might fit a 5.25 drive bay, would be kinda funny in an XT.
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Pentium 200mmx or 233mmx
AMD K6-2 or 3 with 3D now and MMX
128 or 256mb Memory
52x CDROM or DVD
S3 Trio64 DX
Voodoo 3 PCI
Riva TNT PCI
Nvidia FX 5500
Creative AWE 64 ISA
I would search for a Nvidia Geforce FX 5700LE/VE PCI Video Card.
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Get a 36GB 10K RPM Raptor drive and put a Sata to IDE Adapter on it.
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AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-08-06, 15:26:I would search for a Nvidia Geforce FX 5700LE/VE PCI Video Card.
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Get a 36GB 10K RPM Raptor drive and put a Sata to IDE Adapter on it.
That's a joke yes? Those 36GB Raptor drives were native pata with a built in sata bridge, but you are adding a second bridge to go back to Pata, which would make the performance so bad/unreliable that we'd all have to laugh, yes?
We'll allow him to use 2nd gen Raptors then. ADFDs instead of GDs.
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douglar wrote on 2024-08-06, 19:06:AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-08-06, 15:26:I would search for a Nvidia Geforce FX 5700LE/VE PCI Video Card.
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Get a 36GB 10K RPM Raptor drive and put a Sata to IDE Adapter on it.That's a joke yes? Those 36GB Raptor drives were native pata with a built in sata bridge, but you are adding a second bridge to go back to Pata, which would make the performance so bad/unreliable that we'd all have to laugh, yes?
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Wow a raptor debate
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Cursed Derp wrote on 2024-08-06, 22:26:Wow a raptor debate
Sorry Bro. Looks like the internet has decided that you have to do the double bridged raptor drive. I don't make these rules. =)
I've always wanted to throw some very strange multifunction cards in one system...
Chromatic Research MPact! 2 PCI, bonus weird points for using onboard RAMBUS
Rockwell RipTide PCI, the soundfaxmodem
NeoMagic MagicMedia 256ZX, the videosound chip with on-die/package memory
Diamond Edge 3D 3000, double bonus weird for dual Sega Saturn controller ports and I think nVidia's first chip
VideoLogic Apocalypse 5D Sonic PCI, Tseng Lab's last chip plus PowerVR PCX2 in one slot
That's some crazy stuff I've never heard of
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Weird crap... there's a lot of strange stuff out there. I'm a bit of a networking geek, so I might choose to add as many different network protocols I could find. Ethernet is a no-brainer, but there's so much more out there. Easily available in PCI are things like token ring (Madge or Olicom cards), 100VG (HP, conveniently also backwards compatible with 10MbE, and featuring the most brain-dead QoS system out there) and FDDI. WiFi is also possible, although Win98 drivers are so primitive that interop with modern (WPA2-secured) networks isn't really an option. But there's more, although finding these in PCI form factor could be a challenge - things like ARCnet, ATM, LocalTalk etc.
Of course, then you have the challenge of getting them something to talk to 😉
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but please PLEASE install a Y2K compliance card. You risk immediate implosion of the computer (along with the surrounding 2 to 20 mile area) if you power on a computer from the late 90s without a Y2K compliance card installed.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
