Win98 on "real hardware"

[esadajr]

Just curious, how many of you still use good ol' Win98 on real hardware? at least from time to time.

What do you use it for?

I use the old PC mostly to slowly burn stuff with the Liteon burner. I found the old lpt scanner which still works nicely and found an office xp disc, so it can be used for some productivity too  O:)

Sometimes I like to relieve the good old times with 4x4 Evo, Monter Truck Madness, Flight Simulator 98, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, etc using my Gravis gamepad pro (remember those?)

[BlueBMW]

I keep a dedicated pentium 2 with windows 98 on it.  Seems like there were a few games that just wont work right on newer OSs.

[Opethian]

I had a win98 rig to write 5.25" FDDs using xfloppy but I upgrade it to XP and omniflop
Pentium III with 16meg of ram! lol its painful but I can copy files over the network to it to write.

[Necromancer]

My old Pentium 150MMX has 98 on it, but it's not been turned on for years.

[bob]

you guys are making me want an old pc for some gaming i havent touched in over 15 years.

[wildfruit]

I had a fujitsu with p75 and 8mb ram win 95 now that was a machine
One game for sure that doesn't run right in dos box is theme hospital. Most others i have do

[bob]

I keep a dedicated pentium 2 with windows 98 on it.  Seems like there were a few games that just wont work right on newer OSs.

what do you have for a vid card in it?
i just started looking at some PIII socket 370 cpu/mb to build around.
but im not 100% sure this is a good route to go.

[wildfruit]

If it has an agp port my 5950 ultra never let me down

[GohanX]

I used to have a badass rig that I shall booted real DOS and Win 98, but since most of the games I'd want to play are on gog now I tossed it during the move.

[esteban]

I have an old Pentium II circa 1998-99 with Win98. I haven't used it in years, though (since moving back to NJ in 2006).

Don't worry, my current desktop PC is running WinXP.

[nodtveidt]

My desktop is running XP, and today is its end-of-life.

[Fidde_se]

Well it's a must, both for running games and original hardware/software on the correct computer from the correct timeline.

I have this setup with a switch that can switch between them with the same screen, mouse and keyboard at the same time.

Win95, Pentium 90, 16MB EDO, DOS 6.22/Win3.1, EMU APS, SB16 (ISA), 300MB HD, Diskette.

Win98, Pentium II 300MMX, 256MB SDRAM PC133, EMU APS, SBAWE64 Gold (ISA),
            GeForce2 MX200 32MB SDRAM, 3DFX Voodoo2 SLI 2x12MB, SCSI 3GB, IDE 12GB,
            CD 24X SCSI, CDR 4X IDE, Zip250, Diskette.

WinME, Athlon 1200, 512MB SDRAM PC133, EMU APS, ESI Waveterminal 192L,
            40GB E-IDE, GeForceFX 5200 128MB SDRAM, DVDR 18x IDE, CDR 52x IDE, Diskette.

WinXP, Pentium III 1GHZ, 512MB SDRAM PC133, EMU APS, EMU 1212M, EMU 1820M, 80GB
            E-IDE, 250GB E-IDE, DVDR 18x, Diskette.


WinXP (Portable but as stationary) Pentium III 1GHZ, 512MB SDRAM PC133, Audigy2ZS Notebook,
            160GB E-IDE 2.5", DVDR 18x.

WinXP (Portable EEE, Outside the Switch) Atom 1.6GHZ, 2GB DDR2 667MHZ, 160GB E-IDE, 10.1",
            Diskette via USB, Zip750 via USB.

Win7/64, Core2Duo 3GHZ, 4GB DDR2, SSD 40GB SATA2, 500GB SATA2, 250GB E-IDE, Audigy SB1394,
            EMU 0404USB White, DVDR 18x, GeForce GTS250 1GB GDDR3.


Stacked away, portable 1991-92, Win95,Win3.1,DOS6.22, SiemensNixdorf 15" (screen like 6-7")
            486DX 33 or 50MHZ, 24MB RAM!!!!! 300MB HD!!!!!!!, had a desktop case to go with it that
            you could insert the computer in it making it stationary!!!!
            inserted the whole portable like a VHS tape in a VCR, the case had two 5.25" slots for
            diskett drives, HD, CD-ROM, specially made for high executive bank officials, said to cost
            around 18.000$ at the time, runs Quake at bad framerate.
            Seems to be the only pic I can find of one like it
            http://notebookblog.cz/blog/wp-content/uploads/stare-obrazky/pcd4nd_dock.jpg
            the computer always went with banks boss, working at home, inserting it in the office,
            robbery at night would mean no info to be found... crazy times, the computer is still here
            but I threw the desktop casing some time ago, it took enourmous space and was kinda
            empty inside... but made it alot easier installing from cd.

[BlueBMW]

I keep a dedicated pentium 2 with windows 98 on it.  Seems like there were a few games that just wont work right on newer OSs.

what do you have for a vid card in it?
i just started looking at some PIII socket 370 cpu/mb to build around.
but im not 100% sure this is a good route to go.

Ive got an ATI Rage Fury 32mb card in it.  Interestingly one of the few programs I do use it for is the Rage Dawning demo that has to have that cards chipset to run properly hehe.

[GohanX]

I used to have that vid card, it was badass iirc.

[kentuckycc]

I have an old laptop that I won in a science fair that I use just for this! I use it to play Oregon Trail and this game where you have to kill all the mice before they reproduce. I feel like a kid again on it.