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First post, by candle_86

Posted on 2017-04-11, 13:33

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So I scrapped together parts to build a retro system at work, off the network of course, if they saw Windows ME pop up on the network I'd likely get a ticket to go shut it down 🤣.

But here is the specs

AMD Duron 1200
ASUS A7V8X-MX
512mb DDR333
Dell Radeon 7500 32mb
80 GB Hard Drive
Soundblaster PCI 128

Reply 1 of 11, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-04-11, 13:46

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Pictures?

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Reply 2 of 11, by Robert B

Posted on 2017-04-11, 14:05

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PICS or it DIDNT happen 😁

Reply 3 of 11, by candle_86

Posted on 2017-04-11, 14:26

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Reply 4 of 11, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-04-12, 13:23

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aww ye nice job! Those Dell monitors are great

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Reply 5 of 11, by Azarien

Posted on 2017-04-13, 08:44

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I'd add another 512 MB and install XP.

Reply 6 of 11, by candle_86

Posted on 2017-04-13, 13:36

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I don't want to do that

Reply 7 of 11, by oeuvre

Posted on 2017-04-13, 13:41

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I'd keep it the way it is!

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Reply 8 of 11, by candle_86

Posted on 2017-04-13, 14:13

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Well I didn't keep it how it was, Windows ME was giving me a nightmare, and I don't want to burn a bunch of disks, and it has no floppy drive so I installed 2000 on it, and upgraded it to 1gb of ram, but it still feels retroy, i installed Red Alert 2 for fun during lunch. If 98SE had native thumb drive support or i had a floppy drive I might have done 98SE

Reply 9 of 11, by LHN91

Posted on 2017-04-13, 14:27

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It's funny, when I don't explicitly want easy DOS access I default to Windows ME - the convenience factor of USB flash drives working out of the box trumps quite a bit.

Reply 10 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2017-04-13, 14:34

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candle_86 wrote:
Well I didn't keep it how it was, Windows ME was giving me a nightmare, and I don't want to burn a bunch of disks, and it has no floppy drive so I installed 2000 on it, and upgraded it to 1gb of ram, but it still feels retroy, i installed Red Alert 2 for fun during lunch. If 98SE had native thumb drive support or i had a floppy drive I might have done 98SE

Probably you already know, but just in case, I never have any problems with NUSB and Windows 98SE, plus Sandisk 98SE drivers are still available, and my 2/4/8 GB Sandisk flash drives work perfectly well with it.

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 11 of 11, by candle_86

Posted on 2017-04-13, 15:45

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tayyare wrote:
candle_86 wrote:
Well I didn't keep it how it was, Windows ME was giving me a nightmare, and I don't want to burn a bunch of disks, and it has no floppy drive so I installed 2000 on it, and upgraded it to 1gb of ram, but it still feels retroy, i installed Red Alert 2 for fun during lunch. If 98SE had native thumb drive support or i had a floppy drive I might have done 98SE

Probably you already know, but just in case, I never have any problems with NUSB and Windows 98SE, plus Sandisk 98SE drivers are still available, and my 2/4/8 GB Sandisk flash drives work perfectly well with it.

Yes I'm aware but no floppy drive, thats a Zip drive in the case, and no i don't have any Zip disks, I'd have to start ripping at least one more CD to hold the NUSB33 driver for 9x which i want to avoid

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