Re: Windows 98 and its DOS mode option

rpgs rock dvds <rpgsrockdvds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Being a noob at building a new PC, I'm only just realising my
problems. In order to get Win 98 to work, the new PC's internals must
have the correct drivers, but many modern add-in components don't
support this older OS.

My new Asus mobo doesn't support my new SATA HDD running Windows 98.

You should be able to get it work at some level. At the very least
Windows 98 can use the BIOS to do access the hard drive, and you should
be set SATA controller to emulate an IDE controller in the BIOS options.
You'll need to create a FAT32 partion that's less than 120 MB in size.

My new Creative sound card only supports XP onwards!

Some relatively recent Creative sound cards are backwards compatabile
enough with the SoundBlaster Live! that they do support Windows 98 but
I don't think you can get the drivers from Creative any more.

God knows if there are any Win 98 drivers for my new 8800GT card -
I doubt it.

It looks like the last NVIDIA cards to support Windows 98 were the GeForce
6x00 series. You can still boot Windows 98 in VGA compatible mode.
The SVGA drivers might let you get 800x600 graphics.

This is looking grim. Pity, as I've just shelled out =A330 ($60US) for
a copy of Win 98!

I hope it was Windows 98 SE. If it's not the "Second Edition" you're
going to find it has even more compatibility problems.

Also, my mobo has 2GB of memory, and I've heard
that Win98 doesn't like more than 512MB of RAM, although I've also
heard there's a workaround for this.

Yah, there's a simple fix for that. Edit SYSTEM.INI and add:

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=500000

I think I might just stick to one machine, XP and DOSBox.

This is probably the best option on your machine.

Ross Ridge

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