I've found out about your channel and I really like old, nostalgic tech stuff, like OS installations on different machines and old games. The fact that you play one of my most favorite childhood games, Age of Empires, is amazing. Instant subscribe. I'll keep watching your videos! :D Keep it up. Please don't stop making these.
Apple2 Tech You're so lucky I don't have any PC for me:3 COMPUTERS IN MY HOUSE; 2 "NON WORKING" 1 WORKING BUT ISN'T MINE(I DON'T EVEN HAVE A MODERN SMARTPHONE
I have a windows 98 SE with Plus installed on top for add-on's and it is awesome. The system is running under P3 with 1GB of ram, Asus video card 256, and a old Soundblaster CT2980 sound card.
This reminds me of having to track down an old pentium 133 system to play grim fandango on a while back. The thing with that game is if you run it on a computer faster than 300mhz there is a part in the game where you have to jam a forklift through an elevator when it gets to a hidden floor but on faster systems than 300mhz that scene went by too fast to actually do that. Funny thing is I got the game in 1998 but never beat that part until 2012. Turns out there was a patch for that problem too
a startup video that shows the actual computer and not the monitor? nice!! I wish that computers were more mechanical though, could have used some crazy steam exhaust and pistons in this case
Please reply if you can, I have an Hauppauge HD PVR capture "card" (well.. it's actually an external box kind) which I'd want to use to capture my "fresh" Windows 98 PC, but I can't get it to work !!! How do you cable your computers to your Avermedia capture card ? I currently have an X300 Sapphire on that Windows 98 PC which has VGA, S-Video and DV-I just like your graphics card and I got an S-Video to RCA thing (S-Video on one side, yellow on the other) and I plugged it in my graphics card S-Video to get a yellow RCA on my Hauppauge, but I don't see anything !! I really want to capture videos off that computer and a DOS one I also recently finished putting together, but I am probably doing something wrong in cabling them... I also have a WinTV PCI card with "s-video out", but I don't have anymore space in that case to fit it and I don't want to remove neither my CT4750 sound card (even though I can't seem to get the drivers working on Windows 98...) nor my SCSI controller. Please Druaga, I hope you can help me D:
The Promise Card is likely due to a PCI card to which your HDD is connected to. These cards are detected and treated as if it is a SCSI card with a SCSI HDD and are super common around the 1998-2004 era as IDE hard drive transfer speeds are increasing and the on-board ATA33/66 cannot keep up. Promise made both ATA100/133 Cards with and without RAID Capabilities. You will see the same detection screen if you had a SCSI Hard Drive while it goes thru initilisation and detects all the LUNs.
Are your HD and CD-ROM drives IDE or SATA? I heard somewhere that many motherboards have a feature that allow you to use a legacy mode, or compatible mode, which is supported by Windows 98's IDE drivers.
I ran the podrace game one windows 8 (using patches) in order to run it at that sweet 144hz. It worked great with the exception of the antigrav space tunnels not letting you stray from the middle. If you want to try the game out quickly, emulate the N64 version. While it is missing some of the music and cinimatics compared to the PC release, all of the gameplay is there. And emulating N64 games is a breeze, you could be playing within 2 minutes, on your cellphone.
Hey great video! I actually reviewed Lego Racers in the past. I believe I have the same TV Tuner card. I still use coaxial as the main connection type for my TV. So I will soon be able to use the tuner card in my modern PC!
I remember the pod racing game on my N64, it really pissed me off at the advanced levels I would spend hours getting first place and mastering the tracks.
Pretty much the same specs I had in the mid 2000's.. Except I had 512mb ram, and an Athlon 1700, I even had an fx5200!. I still have the machine actually, except with a different board seeing as my original broke. It's my experiment machine. I love it. I do also have a Windows 98 machine that I use quite a bit still. It has a voodoo 3 in it, 768mb ram, an Duron @ 1300mhz, and a pretty awesome addition of an AWE64 Gold. My God the Midi is amazing!
The Promise Controller is there because you attached the HDD to it, it is a faster UDMA 100 one. I had this on my Pentium III machine back then. The ASUS CUBX-L board came with a floppy disk for the driver for Windows 98, ME and NT versions. :D
I have little to no experience with super old OS's, but couldn't you just use Windows 98 on a modern system and boot from a disk? Or is the hardware no longer compatible due to drivers and such not being made for Windows 98?
I suppose S-video is to blame for the footage looking like it was recorded on laser disc, left in your basement for a year, and had music carved into it like it was a vinyl.
Speaking about Music: the whole Ejay series of music/mod/track/mp3 programs that had a couple of really great years & there was even a Ejay magazine for a short time but then it all crashed & none of it is compatible beyond win98.
Interesting video. I'm going to build Windows 98 machine in some point too. There is actually many 90's windows games that don't work flawlessly with newer systems than windows Me.
Druaga, have a look on ebay for an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card, especially an SQ2500 or TechWorks Quadzilla if you can. A3D is an amazing 3D sound tech from the time..... and works in Pod Racer!!!
I'm confused about the "audio" cables from the optical drives. I never used any such cable on any of my old builds and I even removed them from older systems. What was the purpose?
Ah, I never did that either. I would always use the internal sound card for external speakers or for headphones. Never hooked anything directly up to the headphone jack on any optical drive ever.
When you went to point out the optical drives I actually thought you were flipping off the hard drive. The use of the term "craptacular" and the following pause are to blame.
In the year 2000 my best friend bought a Pentium III with DVD Player I don´t remember much of its specs but God it was high end by far, couldn´t believe my eyes watching a DVD movie in a computer, and all was worth over USS 3000!!!
How do you install windows 98SE on a newer is motherboard? I have Asus but i keep getting the need ram 16mb or more to install error cause i have 1gb stick. Cant go any lower have DDR3 socket 775
My older relatives used to be into computers back when Windows 98 was the best and most of them up until about 2006. Hell, I even had a 98 machine up until 2007 when the old video card decided to die on me. Either way I still have the remnants of their forays into the hardware aspects of computers. I do believe I have two or three motherboards with Pentium 3's on them, one or two S3 Trio 3D/2X's, two GeForce FX 5200's and some other misc. PCI peripherals. Those were the days...
Oops, in my reminiscing I forgot to actually comment on your efforts for this video, sorry about that. I do think you did a wonderful job on this video and I hope you keep making cool videos :)
My TV tuner doesn't have an S-Video port on it, but could you plug the output of the video card into the input of the TV tuner and get visor feedback like that? What's the song durning Windows 98SE starting up, I feel like I've heard it before.
I just did a Win98 rig Case - Enlight EN-72500SA ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply - Antec Basiq BP350 ATX Power Supply Motherboard - Asus P2B Slot 1 440BX 4 PCI 3 ISA ATX Motherboard CPU - Pentium III Katmai 500 MHz (from a Gateway Essentials PC) RAM - 256 MB PC133 SDRAM Graphics Card - nVidia Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB AGP Graphics Card 3D Accelerator - 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI Sound Card - Sound Blaster Vibra 16 CT4180 Hard Drive - Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 6E040L0 40GB ATA Hard Drive CD Drive A - LG CD-RW Burner Drive CD Drive B - Lite-On LTN-486 48x CD Drive Floppy Drive - Sony 3.5 1.44 MB Floppy Drive OS - Windows 98 Second Edition
I've found out about your channel and I really like old, nostalgic tech stuff, like OS installations on different machines and old games. The fact that you play one of my most favorite childhood games, Age of Empires, is amazing.
Instant subscribe. I'll keep watching your videos! :D Keep it up. Please don't stop making these.
3:18 Captain - Space Debris
8:22 Skaven - The Occasion
Your run-down of the system sounded so much like Lazy Game Reviews haha.
I'm guessing you're a fan?
Or maybe he's a fan of you....
The plot thickens.
+Data the pot chickens?
+Data not gonna lie.. for a while i thought they were the same person....
+Data You have the best username on TH-cam...
Dr. W. D. Gaster If only I was more faithful to how Data is and didn't use English contractions but I'm too lazy.
+Data I like both Druaga and LGR. :D
The moment when you see someone have a Windows 98 PC with 1 Gb RAM, when you watch the video on your 896 MB WinXP
My Windows XP machine running in the back came with 512 MB of RAM initially, but I upgraded it to 2GB
theblueyoshi33866 and I'm on 4 GB now
The computer that I'm running right now has 6GB installed, but it's on Windows 7 ._.
theblueyoshi33866 Win7 is better, way better looking, stable and faster
+Dyo Kasparov where is the linux in your life ;)
That music you used when the computer was booting up and checking the ram and the hard disk was amazing the music gave it a very good retro vibe! :D
It's actually an amiga module by Captain named Space Debris. Such a classic ;-)
Oh my god, I haven't heard Space Debris in about 15 years. Thank you.
Hamsterball soundtrack is in my head now. What a tune!
I played HamsterBall when I was younger. The music is instantly familiar.
You mean, that HamsterBall which had the nostalgic OST by Skaven252?
-Emm
i have a private video just in case i want to listen to it
yeah, me too.
6:02 I laughed hard watching Luke Skywalker going backwards in a high speed jiggling motion :)
Better than my old XP pc
Same haha my XP machine has:
Pentium 4
80GB HDD
256MB Ram
Apple2 Tech
Intel core I7
2tb SSD
64 gb of ram
I'm talking about my old computer... Now I have a powerful PC
Apple2 Tech You're so lucky
I don't have any PC for me:3 COMPUTERS IN MY HOUSE;
2 "NON WORKING"
1 WORKING BUT ISN'T MINE(I DON'T EVEN HAVE A MODERN SMARTPHONE
Teresa F.blanco Well you must have something to be able to post this comment.
I have a windows 98 SE with Plus installed on top for add-on's and it is awesome. The system is running under P3 with 1GB of ram, Asus video card 256, and a old Soundblaster CT2980 sound card.
This reminds me of having to track down an old pentium 133 system to play grim fandango on a while back. The thing with that game is if you run it on a computer faster than 300mhz there is a part in the game where you have to jam a forklift through an elevator when it gets to a hidden floor but on faster systems than 300mhz that scene went by too fast to actually do that. Funny thing is I got the game in 1998 but never beat that part until 2012. Turns out there was a patch for that problem too
Brought me back to my childhood...thanks, I enjoyed this video very much
Hey Druaga, got modplug and skaven's music, it's really good!
Thanks for featuring it
Dude! The feels seeing those internals bring.
Holy crap that hamster ball music just brought me so much nostalgia...I remember playing 2p with my friend.
Dude, Hamster Ball works on Win XP SP3 flawlessly, i remeber it.
Oh wait he's talking about Star Wars...oops
+Nikola “Nidžo” Pavlica that does too
7:49 Windows 98 SE Acid Trip edition.
Yeah
2K Tan Oh hey again!
Old ass PC bios combined with S-video capture card and an Amiga mod is peak aesthetic.
a startup video that shows the actual computer and not the monitor? nice!! I wish that computers were more mechanical though, could have used some crazy steam exhaust and pistons in this case
Oh my god, Skaven... I knew I knew that name, he composed the music for some of my childhood PopCap games like Bejeweled 2!
10:44 Anyone remeber Hamster Ball (early childhood days kicking in :D)
me :D
+Nikola Pavlica Oh.... The music! i used to play that game all day long
Still have my disk
I managed to get this game running under windows 10 64Bit. Ahh the nostalgia, I would spend so much for a new game like this.
A video that mentions Episode 1 without Episode 1 bashing? My mind is officially blown.
Please reply if you can, I have an Hauppauge HD PVR capture "card" (well.. it's actually an external box kind) which I'd want to use to capture my "fresh" Windows 98 PC, but I can't get it to work !!!
How do you cable your computers to your Avermedia capture card ? I currently have an X300 Sapphire on that Windows 98 PC which has VGA, S-Video and DV-I just like your graphics card and I got an S-Video to RCA thing (S-Video on one side, yellow on the other) and I plugged it in my graphics card S-Video to get a yellow RCA on my Hauppauge, but I don't see anything !! I really want to capture videos off that computer and a DOS one I also recently finished putting together, but I am probably doing something wrong in cabling them... I also have a WinTV PCI card with "s-video out", but I don't have anymore space in that case to fit it and I don't want to remove neither my CT4750 sound card (even though I can't seem to get the drivers working on Windows 98...) nor my SCSI controller.
Please Druaga, I hope you can help me D:
The Promise Card is likely due to a PCI card to which your HDD is connected to. These cards are detected and treated as if it is a SCSI card with a SCSI HDD and are super common around the 1998-2004 era as IDE hard drive transfer speeds are increasing and the on-board ATA33/66 cannot keep up. Promise made both ATA100/133 Cards with and without RAID Capabilities. You will see the same detection screen if you had a SCSI Hard Drive while it goes thru initilisation and detects all the LUNs.
Watching this back again. This is the video I found Druaga's channel from, when I was surfing TH-cam and looking up PC videos, haha.
That pod racer just brings back memories of the N64 I had forever ago.
I have played original star wars from an original release VHS into a computer too! I feel happy
Why not upload in 4:3 if most of the video is on that aspect ratio? I'm pretty sure TH-cam will still allow 1080p if you upload at 1440x1080p
that music!!!!!!! amazing video
The case is COOLMAX CS-480 if you were wondering
ahh .... good old memories using windows 98 when im a kid ! Need for speed III and mario was fun back in the day !
0:22 Oh! Don't forget the classic game we all love, Pod Racer!
I'm loving the background music track
Are your HD and CD-ROM drives IDE or SATA? I heard somewhere that many motherboards have a feature that allow you to use a legacy mode, or compatible mode, which is supported by Windows 98's IDE drivers.
I love the flickeriness, gives it some charm.
we didn't ask, loonix user
@@crylune ????
Can I not state that I like something without having been asked first??
I miss the tuner i had in my old xp computer. I actually had my ps2 hooked into it and with a lcd screen and the right tweaks it looked pretty decent.
what are you going to do for your 6000 sub special?
those nvidia 3d force cards are lit
I ran the podrace game one windows 8 (using patches) in order to run it at that sweet 144hz. It worked great with the exception of the antigrav space tunnels not letting you stray from the middle.
If you want to try the game out quickly, emulate the N64 version. While it is missing some of the music and cinimatics compared to the PC release, all of the gameplay is there. And emulating N64 games is a breeze, you could be playing within 2 minutes, on your cellphone.
Do you have a link to the patch?
Hey great video! I actually reviewed Lego Racers in the past. I believe I have the same TV Tuner card. I still use coaxial as the main connection type for my TV. So I will soon be able to use the tuner card in my modern PC!
How did you capture the bios and boot screen with the TV tuner? I really want to get one of these for my old PC.
he says in the vid that he uses a VGA capture adapter
I remember the pod racing game on my N64, it really pissed me off at the advanced levels I would spend hours getting first place and mastering the tracks.
But all that payed off and I got everything finished, ugh never again
Dude I forgot how great SWE1 Racers was i'ma need to dig in my basement for it so i can play it again Great video like always bro :)
Pretty much the same specs I had in the mid 2000's.. Except I had 512mb ram, and an Athlon 1700, I even had an fx5200!. I still have the machine actually, except with a different board seeing as my original broke. It's my experiment machine. I love it.
I do also have a Windows 98 machine that I use quite a bit still. It has a voodoo 3 in it, 768mb ram, an Duron @ 1300mhz, and a pretty awesome addition of an AWE64 Gold. My God the Midi is amazing!
Awesome, dude!
The Promise Controller is there because you attached the HDD to it, it is a faster UDMA 100 one. I had this on my Pentium III machine back then. The ASUS CUBX-L board came with a floppy disk for the driver for Windows 98, ME and NT versions. :D
Kyôdai Ken I subbed to you ^_^
Jerome Drew
Aww thanks. And nice avatar! :3
I have little to no experience with super old OS's, but couldn't you just use Windows 98 on a modern system and boot from a disk? Or is the hardware no longer compatible due to drivers and such not being made for Windows 98?
I suppose S-video is to blame for the footage looking like it was recorded on laser disc, left in your basement for a year, and had music carved into it like it was a vinyl.
be glad that wasn't composite ;)
Question. I'm trying to get EVERY Microsoft Operating System on one PC, but my rig can't handle Windows 1-95 will this install Windows 10?
windows 98 I never ever want 2 go back to those days
You have officially inspired me to name my folders funny things!
Speaking about Music: the whole Ejay series of music/mod/track/mp3 programs that had a couple of really great years & there was even a Ejay magazine for a short time but then it all crashed & none of it is compatible beyond win98.
Interesting video. I'm going to build Windows 98 machine in some point too. There is actually many 90's windows games that don't work flawlessly with newer systems than windows Me.
Druaga, have a look on ebay for an Aureal Vortex 2 sound card, especially an SQ2500 or TechWorks Quadzilla if you can. A3D is an amazing 3D sound tech from the time..... and works in Pod Racer!!!
What do you think of skaven's more modern works?
I remember this game! My brother had it on his Nintendo 64! (When refering to the episode 1 pod racer game)
5:05 Lego Racers - Nostalgia outbreak.
Did you do the pencil trick with the cache on the cpu?
I'm confused about the "audio" cables from the optical drives. I never used any such cable on any of my old builds and I even removed them from older systems. What was the purpose?
Ah, I never did that either. I would always use the internal sound card for external speakers or for headphones. Never hooked anything directly up to the headphone jack on any optical drive ever.
Thanks for the information. Something I almost never did was use my PC as a CD player, though.
When you went to point out the optical drives I actually thought you were flipping off the hard drive. The use of the term "craptacular" and the following pause are to blame.
i had a computer with a duron 950 and a geforce fx5200 it did rock at the time!
In the year 2000 my best friend bought a Pentium III with DVD Player I don´t remember much of its specs but God it was high end by far, couldn´t believe my eyes watching a DVD movie in a computer, and all was worth over USS 3000!!!
And now it's worth $20 AUD
I have a used AMD Duron 1.3GHz from my old PC. Might find a used mobo and DDR1 RAMs and use it as a vintage pc with Windows 98
question why did you go with Windows 98 and not Windows 95 i am curious because i want to make a custom Windows 95 pc myself
The music playing is included in a Sega Megadrive emulator for Playstation2
it's 2016 and I have a windows 98 Gaming PC and I'm proud of it!
Oh man, this Star Wars game. I remember playing it as a kid, it was great :)
The major reason for having a windows 98 gaming PC is Aureal A3D 2.0. Better positional audio has not existed before or since.
What about a Vortex?
Also, why not on XP?
What is the mysic plays in background when WINdows boots ( also in bios POST screen )
the same exact reason for building a Windows 98 PC in 2017, except with a pentium 4. I have a PIII, but why not? I can play newer games too!
How do you install windows 98SE on a newer is motherboard? I have Asus but i keep getting the need ram 16mb or more to install error cause i have 1gb stick. Cant go any lower have DDR3 socket 775
My older relatives used to be into computers back when Windows 98 was the best and most of them up until about 2006. Hell, I even had a 98 machine up until 2007 when the old video card decided to die on me. Either way I still have the remnants of their forays into the hardware aspects of computers. I do believe I have two or three motherboards with Pentium 3's on them, one or two S3 Trio 3D/2X's, two GeForce FX 5200's and some other misc. PCI peripherals. Those were the days...
Oops, in my reminiscing I forgot to actually comment on your efforts for this video, sorry about that. I do think you did a wonderful job on this video and I hope you keep making cool videos :)
Finally, after seven long years...I got a 98 machine going.
Can this run bf4 ultra high? I'm thinking of building something like this. And also I need to record my mine craft game plays
Two pieces of software in this video that I must look into: That MOD player and the Star Wars racing game.
thx for the track list in the decription (^^)
No Pb with drivers?
I might have to do that at some point, didn't think the parts list would be very useful due to the broad range of different parts.
My TV tuner doesn't have an S-Video port on it, but could you plug the output of the video card into the input of the TV tuner and get visor feedback like that?
What's the song durning Windows 98SE starting up, I feel like I've heard it before.
Never mind, I see you've done it already!
AIO inc. I tried but I think he reason it didn't work was the settings, and I would like the old amcap
RyBurger77 There's only one version of AmCap as far as I know, and that one version seems to work in Windows 98SE.
I used to have to change the system.ini file so Win 98 could handle 512 of RAM. How did you get it to handle 1 gb?
What DirectX version you should install on Windows 98 SE? Thank you.
What's your card?
i opened up obs to check it out and i used capture desktop and it did what your tv tuner did and did many many copy's of my desktop into the past
You sound like Danooct1 and RogueAmp and the same time!
+Ikram232 This channel, and those two, are just amazing. And true. :-P
love the old mod music aaaah why we don't get those anymore ?
Space Debris is my jam
what annoys me about this case is that *_all of the expansion cards are upside down_*
what is the most existing 128mb till idk year
big red racing was an old classic racing game :D
How old is that?
Can Windows 98 SE support PCI Express x16 graphics cards, I know Windows XP+ can....
I have a quite old computer. From 2006, it has got Pentium 4 641 @ 3.2 Ghz and Geforce 7100 GS
what music are you playing in the vid
It's like playing games on drugs.. 8:00
BTW, where can we get the patch? I wish Phantom menace worked also..
I remember playing Pod Racer on my N64, good times
1:24 Well it's better than a 10-200. First one to get that reference gets a new sub xD
THE MUSIC!
I just did a Win98 rig
Case - Enlight EN-72500SA ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply - Antec Basiq BP350 ATX Power Supply
Motherboard - Asus P2B Slot 1 440BX 4 PCI 3 ISA ATX Motherboard
CPU - Pentium III Katmai 500 MHz (from a Gateway Essentials PC)
RAM - 256 MB PC133 SDRAM
Graphics Card - nVidia Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB AGP Graphics Card
3D Accelerator - 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI
Sound Card - Sound Blaster Vibra 16 CT4180
Hard Drive - Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 6E040L0 40GB ATA Hard Drive
CD Drive A - LG CD-RW Burner Drive
CD Drive B - Lite-On LTN-486 48x CD Drive
Floppy Drive - Sony 3.5 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
OS - Windows 98 Second Edition
you had me at 'pod racer'
Where you got the Win98 SE Service pack?
Google "Unofficial Windows 98 Service Pack".
subbed. You, sir, have a very entertaining way of making videos. :)
We don't get nice boot screens like that on windows vista,7,8,10 preview. Just a black screen with a logo. God dammit Microsoft!
daniel oakley Yeah, but the logo has cool animation with those... balls connecting and then exploding...
Yes, but look at windows 8, thats Windows 7 your talking about, Windows 8 just has the logo, and a spinning wheel
daniel oakley I know right...
Buy a nice motherboard or an ssd
+daniel15092 Vista is only a black screen with a scrolling green bar and copyright info