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Mini ITX Win98 Computer help

cloneman
By cloneman
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I'm thinking of building a Win98 rig for shits and giggles. I might dual boot with Windows XP. Mainly, it will be used to play older games without the need for patches and workarounds.

 

It's easy to grab an old pentium 4 and throw in Radeon 8500 or something, but if I build a full-size system I'm going to be tired of seeing it after 6 months and it's gonna go in the trash.

 

Anything notable SFF motherboars from that time period? I gotta get something that won't give me trouble for Win98 drivers.

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I'm thinking of building a Win98 rig for shits and giggles. I might dual boot with Windows XP. Mainly, it will be used to play older games without the need for patches and workarounds.

Should really just like run it in a virtual machine, or use DoS Box

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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There's no 3D acceleration support in VMware for Windows98.

I'm seeing it listed as a setting

 

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59559

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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