Reply 30360 of 30758, by MutedFFS
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Thermalwrong wrote on 2025-10-25, 00:17:Dual wielding :D Ehh, an SB16 in a 386 is fine but especially since you're using it for IDE. What are you using for a CD drive […]
sunkindly wrote on 2025-10-23, 20:00:It seems heretical to dual blaster but I had to put in my SB16 into the 386 temporarily for the IDE interface so that I can install Windows 3.0 Multimedia.
Dual wielding 😁
Ehh, an SB16 in a 386 is fine but especially since you're using it for IDE. What are you using for a CD drive now that Windows 3.0 Multimedia is installed?
I tried out that Panasonic Matsushita CR-501B - SCSI Caddy CD drive and there's still something wrong with it 😒 It detects 8 times with any SCSI controller and drive ID# I try and obviously that doesn't work, so I guess there's something wrong with the SCSI sub-board on the drive. That's a shame and I'm ignoring the drive for a while.MutedFFS wrote on 2025-10-23, 20:41:Long time reader, first time poster: I have finally finished the building part of my Dual Boot Win98/XP Box last night, albeit […]
Long time reader, first time poster:
I have finally finished the building part of my Dual Boot Win98/XP Box last night, albeit in an old case for which the front panel plastic has long since been lost. Had a quick play with installing the two operating systems and drivers. Very difficult to believe that as a teenager I could build & repair these things in my sleep, and now, some 30 years later, I can't solve the simplest problems.
It also seems to occur to me that a motherboard "Technically" running Windows 98, doesn't mean, it will run it in the real world, without a lot of real world problems. It does run well in XP though,so at least I'm 50% of the way there.The A-Bit AV8 motherboard, which I bought, following a lot of research on the most modern system that could run both 98SE & XP, it seems to have a LOT of bugs on any 9X version of Windows, despite being shipped with drivers for 98/Me/XP.
Issues that have appeared after just 24 hours, that I am currently working my way through:
1 . Windows 98 works when it wants to, last night I was happily playing some games, today I don't have a mouse, nor a resolution above 800x600 16 colours.
2. Changing to booting off the Win98 drive as opposed to the XP Drive, currently mean removing half the RAM from the system before changing boot drive, and trying various Legacy settings in the BIOS, to see if it's a mouse & keyboard day today or not.
3. Every time I find the correct Legacy USB settings to have a mouse in Windows 98, it decides to run scandisk, and I can't select to skip it, because I don't have Mouse/Keyboard in DOS.
4. My VGA Capture card won't capture anything in MS-DOS mode, ruling out playing anything that isn't native to Windows, at least for streaming/recording purposes.But I am getting there slowly, by the 40th anniversary of Windows 9X, I should at least be able to open Solitaire 😁
Hey welcome to the forum 😀 That's a pretty late build to run Windows 98 on so maybe that's causing some of the problems, do you have the Via 4in1 chipset driver installed?
I know your pain with the capture card, I got this very interesting 640x480 VGA LCD recently which I thought would be amazing for old games but it's a TV and will *only* do 640x480 and higher, it won't display 320x200 or 720x400 text mode so that's kind of ruined it. No display at all when trying to run DOS games. There are lots of good VGA games though, I was having a lot of fun with Diablo 1 on my laptop that scales VGA perfectly the other week.
I wonder if there's some kind of decent low latency scaler that would do VGA in > VGA out, probably the GBS-Control would do it
Yeah, I hope i can get something sorted out. One of the main aims of this build was to be able to play the original "Theme Park" in real period (ish) correct hardware. It seems a shame that I can't do it on stream, because DOS games just don't seem capturable by this card. I'll keep researching and get there eventually!
MutedFFS - Aspiring Retro gaming streamer - When the d*mn Retro PCs work!
Abit AV8 - Athlon 64 3200+ - Geforce 2 MX 4000 - 2GB DDR - Win98 & XP Dual Boot
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