First post, by Velociraptor
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Feel free to skip ahead to the --- if you don't want to read why I'm asking.
I have a room which contains several old computers as well as main main modern PC. I have all of the systems I grew up playing up until I switched to PC for a 386.
I wanted to have a DOS machine to cover right through to windows XP times, leaving my main PC for more modern stuff only. If I used real hardware for everything I'd need an AT, 386, 486, Pentium, P3 etc to cover all the bases and I don't have room and don't want to do that.
I came across PCem and it's fork 86box and I love them and they will cover me up to early Pentium.
That leaves me a gap from around the late 90s onwards.
I have a machine which looks like a 90s DOS machine - beige desktop case, beige keyboard and mouse. I have a CRT monitor on it's way to me which will hopefully make it here in one piece. I've changed the CPU and board in it for an AM3 board with a 1100t X6. The machine needed to be able to use floppy disks so that I can create floppies for my other non-IBM machines. I also wanted to have a serial/parallel ports for legacy. I found this machine to be as powerful as I could reasonably go while still holding on to most of the legacy stuff. It has floppy, IDE, SATA, serial, parallel etc.
My purpose is to try to make this machine as versatile as possible and cover as much as possible.
So that leads me to an idea I had. Why not install more than one OS on it, and just shut down and reboot into the OS I need to in order to access the game I want. I'll have it in Win7 running emulation for 486 stuff etc, but why not also have Win98 on it so that I can go play stuff I can't easily emulate.
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So, I have an AM3 board with a 1100t in it. It has an x1 PCIe Xonar sound card, and a choice of either a PCIe Quadro 2000 (not FX) or a PCIe GT 710. I have a SBlive (CT4760) which as I understand should be great for Win98SE. I'd like to install Win98SE and have stuff work on it. What are my chances? Would it help to buy a PCI graphics card like an FX5500? I know that for Win98SE and my motherboard's chipset the only real way to find out is to go ahead and do it, but I'm not sure about the rest of it. Would I be better trying windows XP? Is it all a terrible idea and I should stick to running this stuff that i can't in an emulator through DOSbox etc?