Windows 98 20th Anniversary All New PC Build

Building an all new computer from 20 year old parts for the Windows 98 20th Anniversary. Here are the specs of The New Windows 98 PC: OS: Windows 98 Second Edition CPU: 1GHz Tualatin Pentium III GPU: Voodoo 5 5500 64MB RAM: 512MB 133MHz SDRAM HDD: Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM EIDE PSU: EVGA 450BT 450W MOBO: Intel D815EEA2U(after using it, I don’t recommend this board) CDD: Memorex 8xDVD RW/ R 10xCD FDD3.5: Teac FD-235 : Teac FD-55 Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Case: Inwin Q500N (3rd revision I believe) Monitor: Hyundai ImageQuest V770 Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Joystick: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Gamepad: Microsoft Sidewinder game pad Mouse: Microsoft Cordless Wheelmouse This was a wild ride of a video. The Voodoo 5 being DOA was alarming and nearly derailed the whole . The Motherboard doesn’t seem to support two floppy drives as well. I never had both drives working in it. I still need to do some more testing to figure out if I can put a different BIOS on it to support that properly. I also wanted to show POD running instead of NFS but it has some problems running, especially in Glide mode with the Voodoo5. And another problem was that I couldn’t get the gameport on the sound card to work. I need to try using the VXD drivers still to see if that makes a difference. All those problems aside this computer is really great. I was pushing its backwards compatibility a bit far with MS Flight Sim(only about the top half of the screen is meant to be shown) but a Win98 build like this is great for old games. Sure, you could buy most of these on GOG or use the original disks/discs in a VM. But those make for a pale imitation of the real deal. The struggle is part of the fun, although maybe not recapping a Voodoo 5 level of struggle. This is going to be the start of a series of videos that will showcase different aspects of building an running an old computer like this. The upcoming videos about the parts I chose will help explain why they are the ones I went with and how well they work. This video was meant to be a cathartic romp of 90’s PC nostalgia. There will be a lot more in depth content from this later. Playlists of more stuff like this: Computers: Windows 9X: 1990s: Other Links Youtube: Github: Thingiverse: Patreon: Discord: