yeah when they said about Rage mode at the event it was like an El Capitan moment haha, "we'll reuse one of our names from 20 years ago and no-one will ever know"
HaHaha good catch mate, I rem that when saw the launching of RX 6000 series, I said to myself, "RAGE??? That sounds so familiar... oh yeah ATI Rage" LoL
I also have an ATi Rage 128! It's currently working in a retro Pentium 2 system I have built for nostalgia! I took a modern rgb case, painted it beige and used all older components with the exception of storage ( IDE to Compact Flash) and power supply!
@ShadowAngel Second generation Radeon? The Radeon 9500/9700 were revolutionary when they came out. They wrecked the Nvidia GeForce FX cards. I packed away my GeForce 4 for good when they released. The 8500-9250 cards couldn't compete with the GeForce 4.
@@gerald8573 I remember working with the 8088 and the 8086 then there was a few small amds chipsets that I worked with were talking five and a quarter floppy and 10 and 1/4 floppies before I got my hands on the three and a half floppy then the zip drives from I Omega yes I'm showing my age just about over 53 years old now I've been around the computers way too long and still around them delay
Clippy was never retired. He was promoted and now runs the whole of Word, which is why Word does so many weird things compared to Excel, Outlook and the others. Want to move a photo on page 2? No problem, I'll just shuffle the table on page 14 too.
@@RandomGaminginHD How about trying the windows xp 32 bit patch that supports beyond 4 gb ram ? also known as a pae patch ? (Sp3 needed ofc) ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10547
RandomGaminginHD, re: Opera web browser, Windows 98 should be able to run up to Opera 10.10 (2009) specifically "out of the box" - just to let you know!
Believe it or not I had a pc back in 97 that came with a DVD drive... The system was too slow to actually play a DVD... the included player software would only run if you set the resolution to 640x480x8bpp and DVD playback was riddled with horrible frame skipping
@@SgtPnkks You needed at least a Pentium II 350MHz for DVD's to work with Powerlink DVD. Tried it back in the day on my mom's 2nd hand Pentium II 333MHz and it only just failed to run smoothly.
Fond memories of Windows 98. Half life, counter strike, unreal tournament... 56k modems... 300 ping was pretty decent! Absolutely hated going to XP after it.
My families first PC was a 386 CPU with Ms-Dos and Windows 3.11 I believe. I still have it downstairs and it still starts. I can still play the games that we have on it too.
@@RandomGaminginHD The point was no shuttle was called Apollo. The Apollo name was attached to the moon mission capsules. Will you be attempting to retrobright your custardy plastics on that PC?
I got my first pc as a gift in 2015 and the first thing i ever bought with my own money was a 1660ti as an upgrade. I do remember having a brick laptop my grandad made for me that was running windows 98 and would overheat and die every hour. Good times.
My first pc had Windows XP installed, and i remember playing cs1.6 and wolfenstein enemy territory on it and saying to myself "this is like the future on a screen!". Good times man
It's amazing how pc hardware Advances so fast, remember when the Radeon 5970 was the fastest, most expensive and top of the line card back in the day ? Well now i got it for 30 bucks on Facebook marketplace. .. crazy
@@BillyBoy444 the 4 gb HD 5970 was the top end costing 1100 usd yep dual HD 5870 2 gb on a single pcb. there was also a 2 gb HD 5870 eyeinfinity that could do up too 6 monitors which was nuts. Ofc that vram doesn't do too much really due too the performance of the HD 5870 anyway for games at the time 2009 - 2010.
As an older enthusiast, who was about the age you are now when this stuff was new...it's really amusing and somehow heartwarming to see you muddle through hardware from this era. Somewhere in my brain this still counts as cutting edge, and it's really weird yet satisfying to see someone so knowledgeable in modern tech out of their element with it. For me, this is where it all comes from. RAGE MODE! in the Radeon 6000 release, the Fury cards from a handful of years back, even Celeron probably has a more poignant meaning for me. Back then, hot off the heels of the Pentium II era, Celeron still embodied the hope of a budget CPU that overclocked like an SOB and was the budget gamer's best friend. Celeron meant "smart, but not rich" buyer. Love the video man, would love to see more of you messing with older hardware.
My recommendations: 1) Find a copy of 98 Second Edition 2) Install the Unofficial Service Pack 3) Find a Mozilla-based browser like K-Meleon 4) Add a 2nd HDD, put the swap file on it 5) Maybe try dual-booting Debian Linux 6) For a quick benchmark, run the maze screensaver with ALL FRACTALS 7) Check eBay for an IDE-to-CompactFlash adapter
Wow, some pretty good parts in there. Decent motherboard, nicely clocked Celeron, and the most rare bit: A Maxtor drive that works. Upgrade the graphics card and pop a Sound Blaster in there and honestly, you're flying.
I remember getting a 4.2GB drive as an upgrade to go with my 1GB drive and having to format it with 2 2.1GB partitions just so Windows 95 could address the damn thing.
@@nostrum6410 hehe, we had it same. We moved to 1.7 GB drive, but still in 2000 we had it. Then, Diablo II came out, and you know... eighter full install 1.5 GB, or minimal install 430 MB. We had to go for minimal, and it swapped CD every second, and lagged game. Still took up 1/4 of disk.
Windows 98 was my very first computing experience. I remember learning how to use a computer in kindergarten for the very first time. Making my own user account, playing with Clipart in Microsoft Word, learning to type, playing around with MS Paint and so much more. I remember coming home after school and testing out what I learned on our family's Windows 98 computer. And that is where my love for computers began.😌
Great video, brings so many memories! Somewhere around 1994 starts my journey at pc world. My first pc was a used i486DX with DOS 7.something which was given to me by a friend of my father. I dont remember anything about the rest of it's components, but soon after came my second pc which is what I have in my heart as my first pc. It's around mid 1995, it's a Pentium 120, 8mb ram with windows 3.something which was ugraded to windows 95 when they released, no sound card and a video card that I don't remember what it was, Toshiba 8x cd drive and 1gb HDD and if i'm not wrong was upgraded about a year later to Pentium 133, 16mb ram, Hitachi 16x cd drive, 1.2 or 1.6gb HDD, Creative Sblaster audio card and a S3 or Cirus Logic video card with 1mb...and yes, it was before windows 98!
Welcome to the world of "retro gaming PC". I have bought some time ago an HP Vectra 420 DT with an Pentium 4 at 2.0 ghz and 512 MB RAM. I have upgrade it to am Nvidia fx 5600 from Nvidia Vanta, and put and SB audigy 2 for sound. I having a blast with it.
@Michaels Carport More conveniences don't make this a better time, overall, IMO. I'd go back to the 90s (or 80s) in a heartbeat if that were possible...and love it. But hey...to each their own, right. :)
@Michaels Carport Easy access to information via the net is the main thing that I suspect that I would miss. Other than that...meh. Still would be totally worth it. I just have to keep working on that time machine. ;)
I remember, back in 2001 when I had my first computer. It was powered by Pentium 3 and 256 MB of RAM on Windows 98. RTCW, if I remember was the first id title I played and I was completely blown away by the game. I would wish you may include RTCW in your retro PC videos.
@@RandomGaminginHD Hydrogen peroxide bath. Let sit submerged for 24 hours along with some UV light. Yellow will be completely gone. Edit: Doesn't have to be sunlight. Can get UV light strips on Amazon pretty cheap.
The first thing I bought when I started working in 1998 were parts for my own PC. 440BX mobo, Pentium 2-350 & an Nvidia Riva TNT. Before that I had the leftover trickle-down PC from the older brothers. And I still own it. If I ever try it again, I'll be sure to make a video about it.
4MB! extra RAM for my 1995 Pentium 75 running Windows 95. But my earliest was swapping the family TV for a real computer monitor in the mid 80s and a floppy disk drive - good times. Keep up the great work, truly enjoy watching your show.
Now you're into vintage PC territory. Those are my favorite PC's. I have a couple win98 machines and I love them, they are probably my favorite two retro machines of my collection. K6-2 333, 64MB EDORAM, Sound Blaster Live, ESS Audiodrive, S3 Trio64 v2 2MB, Voodoo 1 4MB, Voodoo 2 12MB and a Pentium 3 500, 256MB SDRAM, Aureal Vortex, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB. I would recommend Quake 2 and maybe unreal to push that video card to it's limits.
I threw a 386 powered PC with Windows 3.1 in the garbage 10 years ago. Still own our old 486 in parts though (case was gigantic) but that already had upgraded to Windows 95.
@@CheapBastard1988 I have a 386DX PC with a DX 20 I believe and a spare motherboard with a DX 25. I also have a spare board with a 386SX, but that one doesn't work anymore. I also have a 486, a spare 486 AT motherboard that fits the case and a spare 486 motherboard with an unusual form factor that I plan to sell in the near future. My most interesting DOS pc is an original Socket 4 Pentium @60MHz. AT cases are kind of rare now because most people threw them away due to their massive size and only kept the parts inside.
@@Tom2404 The 486 actually fits inside an ATX case but I don't really have a use for it. The 386 was in a small form factor case. I got the 386 for free from my high school because they gave them away to computer club members. But those 386's were branded with "PTT Telecom" which used to be the name of the national phone company. I had fun with it though but it took up too much space. I still have my old Pentium 4 with Geforce 4 Ti4200 gaming PC but it's stored in the (well isolated and dry) shed. I tend to be looking at new hardware for the last few years but I'd like to repurpose hardware which is no longer used in my gaming rig. I'm thinking of making a watercooled home server (remote accessible VM's, TV server and storage) out of my current X370 motherboard and 3900XT in about two years. I was pretty pissed AMD decided not to support Zen3 on X370 but if they didn't support Zen2 like they did I would have already replaced the motherboard with something else (probably Intel) while it can now serve another two years bringing the total to 5 years in a gaming PC and I'll have my old 1600X as a backup CPU for my server. I like having high end hardware but I hate seeing it end up in a dumpster but if I no longer want it and nobody else either (like the 386) you kind of have to.
Started my Computer life with Windows 95 and the journey to Windows 10 was nothing short of well 'a journey'. Man i was feeling nostalgic seeing that 98 logo, used to play NFS 2 SE on my 98 machine and a couple of other games i can't remember
Nobody probably remembers or cares, but a week or so ago I commented on how fun this looked and that I might get into messing with older parts and what not. Well I found an old Inspiron 537s desktop. And it was free! I just had to come and pick it up. I was told it hasn't been used in a handful of years, so I expected it to be broke and only good for possible parts. Well I took it back and gave it a good cleaning AND IT ACTUALLY WORKS. This small little project has been so fun and eye opening. It's had an old pentium dual core E5200, 3gb of ddr2 800mhz ram, 640gb hdd, and a radeon hd 350 gpu. Before formatting the hdd I decided to see how it handles browsing the internet. I was greeted with vista... Anyways I installed Firefox and decided to see how the performance was while browsing and a few youtube videos. Seemed to handle just browsing okay, but 720p videos on youtube absolutely destroyed performance. Both the memory and cpu were chugging. So I decided to go to a few places and see if I can get lucky. I did kind of as well! I found a used q9400 cpu for $7 and 2x2gb pack of ddr2 800mhz ram for $10. I was able to get both for $15 because the owner is an acquaintance :). I slapped them into the system and could tell immediately how much better it performed. 720p youtube videos no longer max the system out and suffer slight stuttering. I've even installed Pcsx2 and have been playing a few games on it without issue as well. It's crazy to me that $15 and a bit of time and waiting got me something that can be used for browsing the internet, watching videos on youtube, and handle a decent amount of older emulation. This is definitely a hobby I will be sticking with. Thanks a lot for your videos! I don't know if I would've even gave this hobby a thought otherwise. I wonder if using a cheap ssd and installing windows 10 32bit would a be a worthwhile upgrade? I know the HD 350 can't really handle it, but that shouldn't matter too much if I only use it for the things I mentioned above should it?
Sweet. Please keep doing retro PC like this. The first PC I could afford to buy was a 486DX2 66MHz, from Cyrix I recall, with some VLB graphics and the then super expensive SoundBlaster card with CD-rom package included. A whopping 4MB of ram and 460KB HD and Windows 3.11 for workgroups that I bought for $3000 in 1993. The stamp size videos of birds flapping their wings in Encarta was mind blowing at the time. It later got upgraded to 16MB ram, Windows 95 and 28.8Kbit modem that brought me Internet access in 1997. Back in those days Usenet had way more contents than WWW so that's where I spent my days.
we used to have a celeron something something that was clocked at 1.7ghz i think. It had 512 of ram. The cpu fan had a really interesting noise that i never heard again, but it was like a metallic bearing. It was the stock intel cooller like that one. I played soo much runescape omg
@@rodrigo4379 Yes! That is almost perfect timing for that cpu! ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27172/intel-celeron-processor-1-70-ghz-128k-cache-400-mhz-fsb.html
Hi Steve :) My first pc was a pentium 3 with 256mb ram and some 32MB Asus videocard I got from my uncle when I was 6 or so It was also built in 1998 haha Fond memories with that thing Very enjoyable video as always!
My first COMPUTER was a Ti-99/4a... but we won't go that far back... my first "PC" (as-in from Intel) was a 486 in the early 90s. I had Commodore and Amiga computers inbetween my Ti-99/4a and 486.
The first piece of hardware I bought for a PC was ~1992 when I bought a Sound Blaster Pro for my 386 SX16. I was just completely amazed at actual synthesized music instead of different tones of beep. I paid something like $250 or so for it and I was damn proud to own it.
when we are in the early 90's through to about 2004, thats where i spent most of my time in pc stuff. i even was the one who repaired alot of the school pcs back then too.the first pc that was mine was an old IBM PS/2. i liked it, but about a year later, i got ahold of a Texas Instruments Ti-99 because i had access to a ton of games for it. then, i got a Tandy 1000. loved that pc so much. played so many awesome games with it....after that, around 1995 or so, my uncle and i put together a pc with parts he had laying around, for me. then, we were excited af when we were able to install windows 95 on it. then, windows 98 after about a year of running 95 since 98 just came out. the pc my uncle and i built back then had a pretty sweet sound card in it and the video card was epic for its time. i dont remember the names of either, but i know they were really good and i could play anything i could get ahold of.
cpu: core 2 due 2.2ghz (idk what's the whole name) gpu: the igpu in the cpu after 2 years i bought a GeForce 210 ram: 2gb of ddr2 motherboard: a foxconn lga 775 (idk what the full name) psu: idk lol storage: 160 hdd and and a cd dvd drive case: just a pieces of metal and some usb and audio and power/restart buttons
We have similar specs: Intel Core 2 Duo e6650 2.33ghz 2gb ram ddr2 Q35 Express family chipset (GMA 3100) 256 HARD DRIVE CD DRIVE Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
The first ever component I got for my PC was when I got gifted a Pentium D 2.8GHz machine with a gig of RAM and a 40GB HDD. I went to the local computer store with my mum and went to buy a "video card". There were several options that I could choose from, the only two I remember were an MSI GT210 a and a Club3D Radeon HD 6450 Noiseless Edition (guess which I went for haha), a whopping €45 later and I could now play the Minecraft beta on my PC. Man, 11 year old me was so excited. I still have to remind myself that there's people born after the year 2000. '98 FTW
Wow. Lol. Reminds me of my first gaming rig. I purchased it off a now defunct company called Tiny, here in the UK ( well my dad did). I got it for the sole purpose of playing GTA3. The first gaming pc I actually purchased myself was in 2004-5 from dell. I wanted an Alienware but couldn’t afford one without finance. I used that one for Medival 2 Total war and Rome: Total war. They were the days. Not a care in the world other than what game to get next.
My first PC was around 1998. It was a Pentium II 300mhz, 64mb ram, 6gb hdd. With time I upgraded the ram to 96mb, the hdd to 10gb and I bought a CD Writer, a printer, a scanner, etc. My first games were Tomb Raider and Half Life once I bought my first video card which I believe was a Voodoo 8mg. I hope I'm right about the details. Thanks for sharing, I enjoy your videos a lot.
@@dcikaruga Damn indeed. However how about running it in your first PC you ever bought, a Tandy TL1000 (10 Mhz 286, 768 KB RAM, 20 MB HDD) with DOS 3.3 and the only other game you had at the same time was Starflight 2? And you bought that computer when you were 21 because that was when you could afford it yourself? And you maxed out the new Radio Shack credit card you opened just to buy it? And at this point in your life you wished you still had it for "feels"? Now feel old 😢
It's surprisingly difficult to find information on computers and computer parts prior to 2005. I've collected quite a bit of vintage tech over the years, asking questions all over the internet, and I still feel like I know barely anything about vintage hardware compared to what I know about modern tech. It just seems like any knowledge base that there may have been is dying out. My current vintage setup is a Micron Millenia running Windows 95. It has a 200MHz Intel Pentium Pro, 512MB of DDR RAM @ 333Mhz, a Micron motherboard, a 4MB Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 GPU, and an 18GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda SCSI drive. Really does put things into perspective.
Aaaah this brings back memories. Although, my first PC was a 486SX 25mhz, 2MB Ram (or was it less, i can't remember) with Windows 3.1. In fact, it didn't even have a CD-ROM drive, Sound Card or dedicated graphics! Still, i loved that thing!
One of my favorite games to play on Windows 98 was Rendezvous with Rama. Hope to hear that Windows Start sound in the next video. I remember the first upgrade my dad did to our pc was buy us a translucent blue keyboard. So 2000s!
@@RandomGaminginHD The problem often sat in front of the monitor though ;-) I never had problems running Rage 128 and Radeon 9600 Pro in those days. Though with the latter you were better off using the so called Omega drivers, which were modded drivers, since they gave you some main options which were also well explained to configure the hardware to work properly with your mainboard. If I remember correctly with the original Radeon drivers those options were only accessible via registry.
That Apollo PS may have been more like the late 90s very early 2000s. I remember putting together a beast of a PC in 98 that had a Socket A pentium III and thinking that thing was unreal... Which was what I was playing at the time... 🤣🤣🤣
Sooooo much memorys! Windows 98 was the windows version I used for a long time. A friend of mine used it up to 2007 or so on her laptop, because it was asumed more safe for internet surfing back than... Are kids today say it like that anymore? Internet Surfing? XD
Your not wrong about the old style case build quality. I've just swapped my Antec case our for this old beige beast cos the build quality is so good. Even back then it had a sliding removable hdd caddy and motherboard tray. Every panel is removable and their sprung too, including the front, so once I'd given it a respray it, it now looks good as new.
Im in the same boat as you! I built my first pc at 13 and i had pc's as a kid but i didnt knoe much about them. I wish i knew more about the early to late 90's tech as its so cool and inovative for its times.
Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Carmageddon 1 and 2, MDK 1 and 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, Quake 1, 2 and 3, Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, possibly the Star Wars Knights of the old Republic 1 and 2 (possibly need DX7?), Definitely Star Wars Jedi Knights and the other era appropriate Star Wars games. There are a ton of really outstanding games from the late '90s to early 2000s, these are just a few I remember being blown away by. That board and CPU are great for windows 98, the Celeron 1200 uses a Tualatin core and is great for retro gaming. You should absolutely throw in an SSD with an IDE to SATA adaptor and you should be fine with 512mb of RAM on windows 98. The only major upgrades I would consider for a "period correct" retro gaming system would be a soundblaster live and a better GPU as the one you have harkens back to the late '90s more so than the early 2000s and lacks DX 7 and 8 support. You could go with something like a Radeon 9800 for DX9 support (needed for games like GTA SA). You will then need to install DX9 and other Win98 updates, there are a lot of user made patches and fixes that add all kinds of support to the OS but do your research. Welcome to the rabbit hole mate ;)
Most of your videos have been great but for some reason this one stands out. I think it stood as more candid and cared about considering benchmarks weren't exactly the focus today. A great watch overall
I have a lot of nostalgia for Windows 98 pcs.... I started using a computer around the age of 4 with a OG pentium running Windows 95. Later we got a pentium 2 with 98SE, I love all the screen savers and everything. Downloading DOS abdonoware back then too. So much nostalgia for me. I'm itching to build a PC from that time... Must got to find the right parts
When I had my XPS T500 retro gaming PC, I used KernelEx to run a slightly newer version of Opera, which at the time, could handle the modern web a bit better. There is also the generic mass storage drivers which will allow you to use modern USB drives without any major issues. I do recommend getting a USB 2.0 card.
I just re-bought my very first PC...or at least the same model. Originally bought at Aldi in April of 1999. Pentium II 400 MHz 128 MB RAM (originally came with 64) Nvidia Riva TNT (onboard) Soundblaster 64 (also onboard) Intel SR440BX Mainboard and I'm loving it, really brought back some memories.
I won a Maxtor D740X in a giveaway for a site for K6 CPU enthusiasts around 2002 and then wrote a review of the drive for their site. I used that drive for years, still own it, and it still worked the last time the last time I hooked it up about five years ago. It spent quite a while later in the 2000s in what was already a retro rig with a Voodoo 3 3500 and a K6-III+ running at 550 MHz.
My family didn't have a computer in the home until I was around 9. The first computers I ever used were at school when I was around 5 or 6. I have vague memories of owning a Windows 98 box when I was 7 and playing SkyRoads (old DOS game) on that, however.
My first PC was back in 1993 when i was 12, a 486 66 mhz with 4mb ram, later upgraded to 16mb, 2x CD Drive, 260mb hard drive with Windows 3.1 installed. It was a beast at the time and i loved it.
With this machine you can actually game a lot. The Rage 128 is ok for 3D games up to 2000. You can also upgrade to GF4Ti or FX5800/5900 and get very good performance in almost every win98 compatible game. Also a sound card like a SB Live! would be a nice addition to this pc.
My first self build PC GPU back in 1999/2000 was a Rage Fury Maxx which was essentially 2* Rage 128 squeezed on the same board. It was a beast paired with a Slot A 700Mhz Thunderbird. HAppy days.
I was a tech back in 2000/2001 and built mostly p3 systems. Voodoo, ATI and TNT video cards in every system...and people loved semi-transparent cases we sold 🤷♂️. CD burner was a must! I installed office 2000 soooo many times, I still have the 25 digit product key memorized to this day...yikes.
Still have my Rage Fury, first graphics card I bought new. I remember being blown away by the demo that came on the driver CD. I got it to play Unreal Tournament online with my friends. That went well on dial-up.....
I remember when i had that graphics card. It had some buggy drivers. On Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 it refused to draw wheels on the cars so they all floated around futuristically! lol
I'm 53yo... building PCs since the 90s was my thing. I can assure you, in the 1990s, you needed a 2D card and a 3dfx Voodoo card if you were a serious gamer. Using an ATI Rage card back then for gaming, would be like using an NVidia 710GT card today. 3dfx was where gaming was at in the 90s.
I always carry my dust jobs out to the garage. The more pressue, the better. 10 bars through a blow nozzle gets rid even of the stickiest stuff in the darkest corners. I just have to make sure that the air doesn't rip off components ;-)
Takes me back to my school days.... I remember using computers in the library at play time and that was like 93 / 94. I can remember it being Windows and the paint thing but it was pre Windows 95 so who knows. Before the internet was mainstream. Using a mouse seemed so alien back then. Just couldn't control those old ball mice very well. The cases were like an off white colour, never pure white but they weren't yellow when new. It's apparently the recycled plastic that's been bleached white from another colour and the residue makes it turn yellow over time.
IDE to CF for replacing the IDE drive is a good and common upgrade for retrostations, you should also look into getting a Voodoo2, Voodoo3 or Banshee gpu as well.
Tech world: “The latest AMD GPU has 128 mb of cache and RAGE MODE!”
RG in HD: “Here we have an ATI Rage 128 Fury”
yeah when they said about Rage mode at the event it was like an El Capitan moment haha, "we'll reuse one of our names from 20 years ago and no-one will ever know"
HaHaha good catch mate, I rem that when saw the launching of RX 6000 series,
I said to myself, "RAGE??? That sounds so familiar... oh yeah ATI Rage" LoL
I also have an ATi Rage 128! It's currently working in a retro Pentium 2 system I have built for nostalgia! I took a modern rgb case, painted it beige and used all older components with the exception of storage ( IDE to Compact Flash) and power supply!
I have ATI rage 2C back home
@ShadowAngel Second generation Radeon? The Radeon 9500/9700 were revolutionary when they came out. They wrecked the Nvidia GeForce FX cards. I packed away my GeForce 4 for good when they released. The 8500-9250 cards couldn't compete with the GeForce 4.
awkward moment when 20 years ago isn't the 90s anymore
20 years ago was the 80s. Fuck.
Shut your mouth.
Old people, haha!!! (It's not like I'm going to be like this too in another ten years or anything. aw shite)
@@gerald8573
I remember working with the 8088 and the 8086 then there was a few small amds chipsets that I worked with were talking five and a quarter floppy and 10 and 1/4 floppies before I got my hands on the three and a half floppy then the zip drives from I Omega yes I'm showing my age just about over 53 years old now I've been around the computers way too long and still around them delay
o_0 *Existential crisis intensifies*
Clippy was never retired. He was promoted and now runs the whole of Word, which is why Word does so many weird things compared to Excel, Outlook and the others. Want to move a photo on page 2? No problem, I'll just shuffle the table on page 14 too.
Me: clears 1 line if text
My document: I have decided to break
Me: types in a word
The document: aight imma head out
I have good memories with Clippy, when I bored with my task in Ms Word, I would ask him to do the random animations lol
@@da_pawz I remember him turning into a bike. Can't remember what else he did. I used to like the cartoon dog one.
@@Agret He would look through a telescope on a ship, not sure what else
Looks like you got a new setup, pretty nice! I like how minimalistic it looks, dunno about the plunger tho lol
Haha it’s a bug catcher for spiders 😂
@@RandomGaminginHD hi
@@RandomGaminginHD haha sure sure sure sure sure
@@RandomGaminginHD How about trying the windows xp 32 bit patch that supports beyond 4 gb ram ? also known as a pae patch ?
(Sp3 needed ofc)
ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10547
RandomGaminginHD, re: Opera web browser, Windows 98 should be able to run up to Opera 10.10 (2009) specifically "out of the box" - just to let you know!
Oh, this makes me endlessly happy! As someone who is, uh... ahem... older, it's awesome to see this relic, in all its beige and butterscotch glory!
They never stay white haha always go yellow
@@RandomGaminginHD that’s what she said
@@rockstar-5934 dad what are you doing here
@@RandomGaminginHD yeah, i have my first keyboard, nova days im using it, doing well, little yellow keys :D
@@rockstar-5934 Michael Scott is that you?
This PC has the future of media, called the DVD player.
- some guy in 1995
Believe it or not I had a pc back in 97 that came with a DVD drive... The system was too slow to actually play a DVD... the included player software would only run if you set the resolution to 640x480x8bpp and DVD playback was riddled with horrible frame skipping
@@SgtPnkks You needed at least a Pentium II 350MHz for DVD's to work with Powerlink DVD. Tried it back in the day on my mom's 2nd hand Pentium II 333MHz and it only just failed to run smoothly.
late 90s PCs with DVD-ROM drives were supposed to have hardware MPEG decompression cards to solve the problem of the CPU being too weak
i remember when even having a cd burner you would be the coolest kid on the school
Fond memories of Windows 98. Half life, counter strike, unreal tournament... 56k modems... 300 ping was pretty decent! Absolutely hated going to XP after it.
fond memories of ripping out the speaker on the modem card so I could surf porn at night.
My families first PC was a 386 CPU with Ms-Dos and Windows 3.11 I believe. I still have it downstairs and it still starts. I can still play the games that we have on it too.
Dat 2000's cable management ❤️👌
Flat IDE cables really did make it a chore
PSU: named Apollo
Also PSU: has a Space Shuttle drawing on it
Space fans: WTF
I thought it was quite cool haha
@@RandomGaminginHD The point was no shuttle was called Apollo. The Apollo name was attached to the moon mission capsules. Will you be attempting to retrobright your custardy plastics on that PC?
At least they didn't name the PSU Challenger. 😐
Rubbish brand better change it out before either the caps pop or it shorts out killing other parts.
3:07 and it's "Pentium 4 ready". Wow!
I got my first pc as a gift in 2015 and the first thing i ever bought with my own money was a 1660ti as an upgrade.
I do remember having a brick laptop my grandad made for me that was running windows 98 and would overheat and die every hour.
Good times.
I have a GTX 1660 TI 6GB, those didn't come out until 2019 man and they're still wicked good high 2k/mid 4k cards.
*depressed me browsing youtube*
RGH: "Hello everyone and welcome to another video."
*smiles*
Hello everyone and welcome to another comment.
*S A D*
Bruh I need a pc :)
@@iakko.4803 why don’t you have?
@@pugg5ter542 nope only a laptop
I remember back in 2003 when I had 2, 40GB IDE drives that "I will never need any more space"
Then came 95 GB sized games and 3 GB programs....
I remember in the 90's i had a 40mb HDD, with the size of a cd rom drive :P
40GB? You were lucky, I was still rockin a 8GB SCSI 5-1/4 Double Bay
@@pheelix- i had 150gb hdd back then 2002
@@ivo3598 that's so much I only got a 120gb hdd for my pc
My first pc had Windows XP installed, and i remember playing cs1.6 and wolfenstein enemy territory on it and saying to myself "this is like the future on a screen!". Good times man
I sell my butt
@@thealien_ali3382 heh good for you
It's amazing how pc hardware Advances so fast, remember when the Radeon 5970 was the fastest, most expensive and top of the line card back in the day ? Well now i got it for 30 bucks on Facebook marketplace.
.. crazy
Yeah it’s insane, there are some great bargains on marketplace too!
5970 Sapphire Toxic was my dream card
@@WhiteTree97 it was so flashy and powerful
Got a Sapphire 5970 off ebay for £25 and it still works too. Just makes me smile a bit thinking what it's original owner must have paid for it though.
@@BillyBoy444 the 4 gb HD 5970 was the top end costing 1100 usd yep dual HD 5870 2 gb on a single pcb.
there was also a 2 gb HD 5870 eyeinfinity that could do up too 6 monitors which was nuts.
Ofc that vram doesn't do too much really due too the performance of the HD 5870 anyway for games at the time 2009 - 2010.
Congratulations!!!! This is most exciting era of personal computers. Tons of variety of processors, graphics cards and sound cards to explore. 😁
i remember as a kid in the 90's all pcs looked like this lol
As an older enthusiast, who was about the age you are now when this stuff was new...it's really amusing and somehow heartwarming to see you muddle through hardware from this era. Somewhere in my brain this still counts as cutting edge, and it's really weird yet satisfying to see someone so knowledgeable in modern tech out of their element with it.
For me, this is where it all comes from. RAGE MODE! in the Radeon 6000 release, the Fury cards from a handful of years back, even Celeron probably has a more poignant meaning for me. Back then, hot off the heels of the Pentium II era, Celeron still embodied the hope of a budget CPU that overclocked like an SOB and was the budget gamer's best friend. Celeron meant "smart, but not rich" buyer.
Love the video man, would love to see more of you messing with older hardware.
My recommendations:
1) Find a copy of 98 Second Edition
2) Install the Unofficial Service Pack
3) Find a Mozilla-based browser like K-Meleon
4) Add a 2nd HDD, put the swap file on it
5) Maybe try dual-booting Debian Linux
6) For a quick benchmark, run the maze screensaver with ALL FRACTALS
7) Check eBay for an IDE-to-CompactFlash adapter
@RandomGaminginHD
These are some really good tips. (Not sure about 5 tho)
Also, install DirectX 9.0c (December 2006). ;-)
I usually avoid the Unofficial service packs - They can introduce a lot of bugs and issues to an already unstable operating system.
Wow, some pretty good parts in there. Decent motherboard, nicely clocked Celeron, and the most rare bit: A Maxtor drive that works.
Upgrade the graphics card and pop a Sound Blaster in there and honestly, you're flying.
20 gigs? That was crazy! I remember buying one of my first hard drives with my savings as a kid, I had only 2 gigs XD
we began on 850 MB drive. :) For DOS, it was enough, but soon in 1997, it start to be terrible, with windows 95.
I remember getting a 4.2GB drive as an upgrade to go with my 1GB drive and having to format it with 2 2.1GB partitions just so Windows 95 could address the damn thing.
@@misterthegeoff9767 hahaha yes, it was Fat 16 XD
i had a 2GB drive and i had to install a 1.6 GB game
@@nostrum6410 hehe, we had it same. We moved to 1.7 GB drive, but still in 2000 we had it. Then, Diablo II came out, and you know... eighter full install 1.5 GB, or minimal install 430 MB. We had to go for minimal, and it swapped CD every second, and lagged game. Still took up 1/4 of disk.
Windows 98 was my very first computing experience. I remember learning how to use a computer in kindergarten for the very first time. Making my own user account, playing with Clipart in Microsoft Word, learning to type, playing around with MS Paint and so much more. I remember coming home after school and testing out what I learned on our family's Windows 98 computer. And that is where my love for computers began.😌
I'm watching it while I playing Settlers II on my Retro Windows 98 PC with Athlon XP :)
Great video, brings so many memories! Somewhere around 1994 starts my journey at pc world. My first pc was a used i486DX with DOS 7.something which was given to me by a friend of my father. I dont remember anything about the rest of it's components, but soon after came my second pc which is what I have in my heart as my first pc. It's around mid 1995, it's a Pentium 120, 8mb ram with windows 3.something which was ugraded to windows 95 when they released, no sound card and a video card that I don't remember what it was, Toshiba 8x cd drive and 1gb HDD and if i'm not wrong was upgraded about a year later to Pentium 133, 16mb ram, Hitachi 16x cd drive, 1.2 or 1.6gb HDD, Creative Sblaster audio card and a S3 or Cirus Logic video card with 1mb...and yes, it was before windows 98!
I love these mystery machine videos, discovering what was left on the drive etc.
So lovely to see old gadgets, a sign of respect and calmness! ❤️
Should've opened with;
"Greetings and welcome to another RGinHD Thing.."
Gotta love LGR!
7:11 - I see Worms. What an absolute classic that is! That must've cost like £20 back then. Now I see it regularly go on sale for 99p.
I remember playing it years ago briefly. I tried again today and had no idea what I was doing 😂
The sounds of concern while discussing about that Old power supply got me.
It got 30A on the 5V rail, that thing can power even the thickest Athlon XP.
Welcome to the world of "retro gaming PC". I have bought some time ago an HP Vectra 420 DT with an Pentium 4 at 2.0 ghz and 512 MB RAM. I have upgrade it to am Nvidia fx 5600 from Nvidia Vanta, and put and SB audigy 2 for sound. I having a blast with it.
The 90s was the best decade ever!. I honestly wish I can back in time and re-live it again!
Agreed. The 21st Century just hasn't been nearly as good, so far.
@Michaels Carport More conveniences don't make this a better time, overall, IMO. I'd go back to the 90s (or 80s) in a heartbeat if that were possible...and love it. But hey...to each their own, right. :)
@Michaels Carport Easy access to information via the net is the main thing that I suspect that I would miss. Other than that...meh. Still would be totally worth it. I just have to keep working on that time machine. ;)
@Michaels Carport Well, once I get my time machine perfected, I'll let you know. ;)
i love this thing, my dad buy a first pc in 2003 and i usually use it play Global operation and NFS underground, very nostalgic.
put those internals in a RGB case mate! for some more FPS in doom XD
I remember, back in 2001 when I had my first computer. It was powered by Pentium 3 and 256 MB of RAM on Windows 98. RTCW, if I remember was the first id title I played and I was completely blown away by the game. I would wish you may include RTCW in your retro PC videos.
You could make a sleeper build with that case!
Yeah might spray it all white again too
@@RandomGaminginHD Don't spray it, retrobright it.
Haha. I'm looking at getting an old beige case for a build. Must have turbo button.
@@RandomGaminginHD Hydrogen peroxide bath. Let sit submerged for 24 hours along with some UV light. Yellow will be completely gone.
Edit: Doesn't have to be sunlight. Can get UV light strips on Amazon pretty cheap.
The first thing I bought when I started working in 1998 were parts for my own PC. 440BX mobo, Pentium 2-350 & an Nvidia Riva TNT. Before that I had the leftover trickle-down PC from the older brothers. And I still own it. If I ever try it again, I'll be sure to make a video about it.
I used to build all my own pcs back in the 1990s, wouldn’t have a clue how to build one now
its allot easier now.
same lol, I remember I had this cd titled how to build a computer
It's much the same, just without 90% of the configuration conflict headaches.
Nothings changed.
4MB! extra RAM for my 1995 Pentium 75 running Windows 95. But my earliest was swapping the family TV for a real computer monitor in the mid 80s and a floppy disk drive - good times. Keep up the great work, truly enjoy watching your show.
Try and see if it's possible to give it new life with a Linux OS.
Now you're into vintage PC territory. Those are my favorite PC's. I have a couple win98 machines and I love them, they are probably my favorite two retro machines of my collection. K6-2 333, 64MB EDORAM, Sound Blaster Live, ESS Audiodrive, S3 Trio64 v2 2MB, Voodoo 1 4MB, Voodoo 2 12MB and a Pentium 3 500, 256MB SDRAM, Aureal Vortex, Voodoo 3 2000 16MB. I would recommend Quake 2 and maybe unreal to push that video card to it's limits.
I don't understand the obsession with Windows 98 in the retro scene, I have 95 on one and 98 on another! Nice specs there :)
now let's see you get a pc preinstalled with windows 3.1
He should use Windows 98 as his daily OS
I threw a 386 powered PC with Windows 3.1 in the garbage 10 years ago. Still own our old 486 in parts though (case was gigantic) but that already had upgraded to Windows 95.
@@CheapBastard1988 I have a 386DX PC with a DX 20 I believe and a spare motherboard with a DX 25. I also have a spare board with a 386SX, but that one doesn't work anymore. I also have a 486, a spare 486 AT motherboard that fits the case and a spare 486 motherboard with an unusual form factor that I plan to sell in the near future. My most interesting DOS pc is an original Socket 4 Pentium @60MHz. AT cases are kind of rare now because most people threw them away due to their massive size and only kept the parts inside.
@@Tom2404 The 486 actually fits inside an ATX case but I don't really have a use for it. The 386 was in a small form factor case. I got the 386 for free from my high school because they gave them away to computer club members. But those 386's were branded with "PTT Telecom" which used to be the name of the national phone company. I had fun with it though but it took up too much space. I still have my old Pentium 4 with Geforce 4 Ti4200 gaming PC but it's stored in the (well isolated and dry) shed.
I tend to be looking at new hardware for the last few years but I'd like to repurpose hardware which is no longer used in my gaming rig. I'm thinking of making a watercooled home server (remote accessible VM's, TV server and storage) out of my current X370 motherboard and 3900XT in about two years. I was pretty pissed AMD decided not to support Zen3 on X370 but if they didn't support Zen2 like they did I would have already replaced the motherboard with something else (probably Intel) while it can now serve another two years bringing the total to 5 years in a gaming PC and I'll have my old 1600X as a backup CPU for my server. I like having high end hardware but I hate seeing it end up in a dumpster but if I no longer want it and nobody else either (like the 386) you kind of have to.
Me who exist in this world in 2002: What actual fuck are these people talking about????
Started my Computer life with Windows 95 and the journey to Windows 10 was nothing short of well 'a journey'. Man i was feeling nostalgic seeing that 98 logo, used to play NFS 2 SE on my 98 machine and a couple of other games i can't remember
“Hello everyone and welcome to another video”. The statement that makes my shorts wet.
Your just weird get check for something
Nobody probably remembers or cares, but a week or so ago I commented on how fun this looked and that I might get into messing with older parts and what not. Well I found an old Inspiron 537s desktop. And it was free! I just had to come and pick it up. I was told it hasn't been used in a handful of years, so I expected it to be broke and only good for possible parts. Well I took it back and gave it a good cleaning AND IT ACTUALLY WORKS. This small little project has been so fun and eye opening.
It's had an old pentium dual core E5200, 3gb of ddr2 800mhz ram, 640gb hdd, and a radeon hd 350 gpu. Before formatting the hdd I decided to see how it handles browsing the internet. I was greeted with vista... Anyways I installed Firefox and decided to see how the performance was while browsing and a few youtube videos. Seemed to handle just browsing okay, but 720p videos on youtube absolutely destroyed performance. Both the memory and cpu were chugging. So I decided to go to a few places and see if I can get lucky. I did kind of as well! I found a used q9400 cpu for $7 and 2x2gb pack of ddr2 800mhz ram for $10. I was able to get both for $15 because the owner is an acquaintance :). I slapped them into the system and could tell immediately how much better it performed. 720p youtube videos no longer max the system out and suffer slight stuttering. I've even installed Pcsx2 and have been playing a few games on it without issue as well.
It's crazy to me that $15 and a bit of time and waiting got me something that can be used for browsing the internet, watching videos on youtube, and handle a decent amount of older emulation. This is definitely a hobby I will be sticking with. Thanks a lot for your videos! I don't know if I would've even gave this hobby a thought otherwise.
I wonder if using a cheap ssd and installing windows 10 32bit would a be a worthwhile upgrade? I know the HD 350 can't really handle it, but that shouldn't matter too much if I only use it for the things I mentioned above should it?
"everyone who helped identify it on Twitter"
*Card had name printed on the back* 😉
Sweet. Please keep doing retro PC like this.
The first PC I could afford to buy was a 486DX2 66MHz, from Cyrix I recall, with some VLB graphics and the then super expensive SoundBlaster card with CD-rom package included.
A whopping 4MB of ram and 460KB HD and Windows 3.11 for workgroups that I bought for $3000 in 1993.
The stamp size videos of birds flapping their wings in Encarta was mind blowing at the time. It later got upgraded to 16MB ram, Windows 95 and 28.8Kbit modem that brought me Internet access in 1997. Back in those days Usenet had way more contents than WWW so that's where I spent my days.
“Modern versions of operating systems aren’t supported”
Yeah, and? Anyone who watched the vid will hear RGinHD say it
Oh man I meant browsers 😂
@@RandomGaminginHD
Thought so
Some early versions of Oprah work though so i guess you could have a chat with it
Windows 7 will work on this PC
Im getting old! I remember my "SLI" setup. used a Voodoo2 (3D !ONLY!) with the onboard graphics for 2D. Good days....
we used to have a celeron something something that was clocked at 1.7ghz i think. It had 512 of ram. The cpu fan had a really interesting noise that i never heard again, but it was like a metallic bearing. It was the stock intel cooller like that one. I played soo much runescape omg
A 1.7ghz Celeron? Sounds like a williamette based processor! The same as the first generation of Pentium 4 with half the cache!
@@Hactarux I think it was around 2002 that my parents bought it. Makes sense?
@@rodrigo4379 Yes! That is almost perfect timing for that cpu! ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27172/intel-celeron-processor-1-70-ghz-128k-cache-400-mhz-fsb.html
@@Hactarux yes 1.75V is that one! Thanks for sharing this.
Hi Steve :)
My first pc was a pentium 3 with 256mb ram and some 32MB Asus videocard I got from my uncle when I was 6 or so
It was also built in 1998 haha
Fond memories with that thing
Very enjoyable video as always!
Sound like my grandpas pc from 97
Awesome :) I’d still like to mess around with a Pentium 3 pc one day
My first COMPUTER was a Ti-99/4a... but we won't go that far back... my first "PC" (as-in from Intel) was a 486 in the early 90s. I had Commodore and Amiga computers inbetween my Ti-99/4a and 486.
Hope everybody is having a good day.
The first piece of hardware I bought for a PC was ~1992 when I bought a Sound Blaster Pro for my 386 SX16. I was just completely amazed at actual synthesized music instead of different tones of beep. I paid something like $250 or so for it and I was damn proud to own it.
Back when people used "compact disks" and "hard disk drives".
discs"*
People still use hard disk drives for cheap mass storage
People still use SSDs.
when we are in the early 90's through to about 2004, thats where i spent most of my time in pc stuff. i even was the one who repaired alot of the school pcs back then too.the first pc that was mine was an old IBM PS/2. i liked it, but about a year later, i got ahold of a Texas Instruments Ti-99 because i had access to a ton of games for it. then, i got a Tandy 1000. loved that pc so much. played so many awesome games with it....after that, around 1995 or so, my uncle and i put together a pc with parts he had laying around, for me. then, we were excited af when we were able to install windows 95 on it. then, windows 98 after about a year of running 95 since 98 just came out. the pc my uncle and i built back then had a pretty sweet sound card in it and the video card was epic for its time. i dont remember the names of either, but i know they were really good and i could play anything i could get ahold of.
cpu: core 2 due 2.2ghz (idk what's the whole name)
gpu: the igpu in the cpu after 2 years i bought a GeForce 210
ram: 2gb of ddr2
motherboard: a foxconn lga 775 (idk what the full name)
psu: idk lol
storage: 160 hdd and and a cd dvd drive
case: just a pieces of metal and some usb and audio and power/restart buttons
We have similar specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo e6650 2.33ghz
2gb ram ddr2
Q35 Express family chipset (GMA 3100)
256 HARD DRIVE
CD DRIVE
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
@@KingSteven77 lol yeah
@@Tar3oZ what games do you play on that pc
@@KingSteven77 the first game was cs 1.6 then gta vice city and a lot of old games
Oh I play
Counter Strike Source
GTA SA
Minecraft + optifine
Among US
Gta 3
Gta Vice City
And other old games
The first ever component I got for my PC was when I got gifted a Pentium D 2.8GHz machine with a gig of RAM and a 40GB HDD. I went to the local computer store with my mum and went to buy a "video card". There were several options that I could choose from, the only two I remember were an MSI GT210 a and a Club3D Radeon HD 6450 Noiseless Edition (guess which I went for haha), a whopping €45 later and I could now play the Minecraft beta on my PC. Man, 11 year old me was so excited. I still have to remind myself that there's people born after the year 2000. '98 FTW
what 15 views? lol, how early am i? nice vid as always
You haven't even watched it yet...
@@unforgettable31 i was almost half through, and finished it now and liked every single bit of it :D
Wow. Lol. Reminds me of my first gaming rig. I purchased it off a now defunct company called Tiny, here in the UK ( well my dad did). I got it for the sole purpose of playing GTA3. The first gaming pc I actually purchased myself was in 2004-5 from dell. I wanted an Alienware but couldn’t afford one without finance. I used that one for Medival 2 Total war and Rome: Total war. They were the days. Not a care in the world other than what game to get next.
this just got uploaded while I was watching an old rghd vid
My first PC was around 1998. It was a Pentium II 300mhz, 64mb ram, 6gb hdd. With time I upgraded the ram to 96mb, the hdd to 10gb and I bought a CD Writer, a printer, a scanner, etc. My first games were Tomb Raider and Half Life once I bought my first video card which I believe was a Voodoo 8mg. I hope I'm right about the details. Thanks for sharing, I enjoy your videos a lot.
Anyone old enough to remember Civilization running on Windows 3.1?
Dude how about running in DOS?
@@michaelwenek76 How about it running on the Commodore Amiga? Dang, I'm getting old.
@@dcikaruga Damn indeed. However how about running it in your first PC you ever bought, a Tandy TL1000 (10 Mhz 286, 768 KB RAM, 20 MB HDD) with DOS 3.3 and the only other game you had at the same time was Starflight 2? And you bought that computer when you were 21 because that was when you could afford it yourself? And you maxed out the new Radio Shack credit card you opened just to buy it? And at this point in your life you wished you still had it for "feels"? Now feel old 😢
@@michaelwenek76 A 286 in the late 80's must of cost you about £1000 or so, that must of stung your wallet.
I remember the abacus.
My first PC was a Zenith, back in 1986. Got it for engineering school. Good times, good times. :)
You've gotta try Half-Life!
It's surprisingly difficult to find information on computers and computer parts prior to 2005. I've collected quite a bit of vintage tech over the years, asking questions all over the internet, and I still feel like I know barely anything about vintage hardware compared to what I know about modern tech. It just seems like any knowledge base that there may have been is dying out.
My current vintage setup is a Micron Millenia running Windows 95. It has a 200MHz Intel Pentium Pro, 512MB of DDR RAM @ 333Mhz, a Micron motherboard, a 4MB Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 GPU, and an 18GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda SCSI drive. Really does put things into perspective.
Bitwit: 10 year old pc
RandomGamingInHD: pff don't make me laugh
Any plans for longer videos? Would happily sit through 20 to 30 mins 👍🏻
Even though i'm not first, i'm still glad that i saw it earlier than almost everybody.
Aaaah this brings back memories.
Although, my first PC was a 486SX 25mhz, 2MB Ram (or was it less, i can't remember) with Windows 3.1. In fact, it didn't even have a CD-ROM drive, Sound Card or dedicated graphics! Still, i loved that thing!
Found one and it just needs a gpu, similar age
I have an old gpu that needs tested though
@@bournes9845 I have a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16mb, and a Nvidia TNT2 Pro 32MB at home to tinker with. :D
Nice
One of my favorite games to play on Windows 98 was Rendezvous with Rama. Hope to hear that Windows Start sound in the next video. I remember the first upgrade my dad did to our pc was buy us a translucent blue keyboard. So 2000s!
I was fine until the name ATI came up, then all the damn time spent installing and troubleshooting drivers just hit me at once.
Yeah a lot of people have mentioned stuff like that to me on Twitter, I had no idea so many people had issues with ati and Windows 98
@@RandomGaminginHD The problem often sat in front of the monitor though ;-) I never had problems running Rage 128 and Radeon 9600 Pro in those days. Though with the latter you were better off using the so called Omega drivers, which were modded drivers, since they gave you some main options which were also well explained to configure the hardware to work properly with your mainboard. If I remember correctly with the original Radeon drivers those options were only accessible via registry.
That Apollo PS may have been more like the late 90s very early 2000s. I remember putting together a beast of a PC in 98 that had a Socket A pentium III and thinking that thing was unreal... Which was what I was playing at the time... 🤣🤣🤣
Yes I’m early!
Ahhh 98, the sound of the 98 intro, i have that sound launched via task planner when my win 10 omen boots, love it.
Outta 10 pc RUclipsrs I watch regularly, 2 don't make retro PC videos. You and ltt. Now you also started it. Nice! Keep on going:)
Bringing me back to the good old days
Sooooo much memorys! Windows 98 was the windows version I used for a long time. A friend of mine used it up to 2007 or so on her laptop, because it was asumed more safe for internet surfing back than... Are kids today say it like that anymore? Internet Surfing? XD
Your not wrong about the old style case build quality. I've just swapped my Antec case our for this old beige beast cos the build quality is so good. Even back then it had a sliding removable hdd caddy and motherboard tray. Every panel is removable and their sprung too, including the front, so once I'd given it a respray it, it now looks good as new.
My wife and I bought a socket 370 (State of the art at the time) and were blown away by the performance. Sure wish we would have kept that old system.
Im in the same boat as you! I built my first pc at 13 and i had pc's as a kid but i didnt knoe much about them. I wish i knew more about the early to late 90's tech as its so cool and inovative for its times.
Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Carmageddon 1 and 2, MDK 1 and 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, Quake 1, 2 and 3, Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, possibly the Star Wars Knights of the old Republic 1 and 2 (possibly need DX7?), Definitely Star Wars Jedi Knights and the other era appropriate Star Wars games. There are a ton of really outstanding games from the late '90s to early 2000s, these are just a few I remember being blown away by.
That board and CPU are great for windows 98, the Celeron 1200 uses a Tualatin core and is great for retro gaming. You should absolutely throw in an SSD with an IDE to SATA adaptor and you should be fine with 512mb of RAM on windows 98. The only major upgrades I would consider for a "period correct" retro gaming system would be a soundblaster live and a better GPU as the one you have harkens back to the late '90s more so than the early 2000s and lacks DX 7 and 8 support. You could go with something like a Radeon 9800 for DX9 support (needed for games like GTA SA). You will then need to install DX9 and other Win98 updates, there are a lot of user made patches and fixes that add all kinds of support to the OS but do your research. Welcome to the rabbit hole mate ;)
Most of your videos have been great but for some reason this one stands out. I think it stood as more candid and cared about considering benchmarks weren't exactly the focus today. A great watch overall
I have a lot of nostalgia for Windows 98 pcs.... I started using a computer around the age of 4 with a OG pentium running Windows 95. Later we got a pentium 2 with 98SE, I love all the screen savers and everything. Downloading DOS abdonoware back then too. So much nostalgia for me. I'm itching to build a PC from that time... Must got to find the right parts
When I had my XPS T500 retro gaming PC, I used KernelEx to run a slightly newer version of Opera, which at the time, could handle the modern web a bit better. There is also the generic mass storage drivers which will allow you to use modern USB drives without any major issues. I do recommend getting a USB 2.0 card.
I just re-bought my very first PC...or at least the same model. Originally bought at Aldi in April of 1999.
Pentium II 400 MHz
128 MB RAM (originally came with 64)
Nvidia Riva TNT (onboard)
Soundblaster 64 (also onboard)
Intel SR440BX Mainboard
and I'm loving it, really brought back some memories.
I won a Maxtor D740X in a giveaway for a site for K6 CPU enthusiasts around 2002 and then wrote a review of the drive for their site. I used that drive for years, still own it, and it still worked the last time the last time I hooked it up about five years ago.
It spent quite a while later in the 2000s in what was already a retro rig with a Voodoo 3 3500 and a K6-III+ running at 550 MHz.
My family didn't have a computer in the home until I was around 9. The first computers I ever used were at school when I was around 5 or 6. I have vague memories of owning a Windows 98 box when I was 7 and playing SkyRoads (old DOS game) on that, however.
My first PC was back in 1993 when i was 12, a 486 66 mhz with 4mb ram, later upgraded to 16mb, 2x CD Drive, 260mb hard drive with Windows 3.1 installed. It was a beast at the time and i loved it.
With this machine you can actually game a lot. The Rage 128 is ok for 3D games up to 2000. You can also upgrade to GF4Ti or FX5800/5900 and get very good performance in almost every win98 compatible game. Also a sound card like a SB Live! would be a nice addition to this pc.
My first self build PC GPU back in 1999/2000 was a Rage Fury Maxx which was essentially 2* Rage 128 squeezed on the same board. It was a beast paired with a Slot A 700Mhz Thunderbird.
HAppy days.
I was a tech back in 2000/2001 and built mostly p3 systems. Voodoo, ATI and TNT video cards in every system...and people loved semi-transparent cases we sold 🤷♂️. CD burner was a must! I installed office 2000 soooo many times, I still have the 25 digit product key memorized to this day...yikes.
Still have my Rage Fury, first graphics card I bought new. I remember being blown away by the demo that came on the driver CD. I got it to play Unreal Tournament online with my friends. That went well on dial-up.....
I remember when i had that graphics card. It had some buggy drivers. On Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 it refused to draw wheels on the cars so they all floated around futuristically! lol
ATI is no longer ATI but some things never change.
That's some proper 90s cable management!
I would kill for a motherboard like that, a game port and integrated sound, that's very rare for back then, wow ur pc is pimped out
I'm 53yo... building PCs since the 90s was my thing. I can assure you, in the 1990s, you needed a 2D card and a 3dfx Voodoo card if you were a serious gamer. Using an ATI Rage card back then for gaming, would be like using an NVidia 710GT card today. 3dfx was where gaming was at in the 90s.
I always carry my dust jobs out to the garage. The more pressue, the better. 10 bars through a blow nozzle gets rid even of the stickiest stuff in the darkest corners. I just have to make sure that the air doesn't rip off components ;-)
Takes me back to my school days.... I remember using computers in the library at play time and that was like 93 / 94. I can remember it being Windows and the paint thing but it was pre Windows 95 so who knows. Before the internet was mainstream. Using a mouse seemed so alien back then. Just couldn't control those old ball mice very well. The cases were like an off white colour, never pure white but they weren't yellow when new. It's apparently the recycled plastic that's been bleached white from another colour and the residue makes it turn yellow over time.
IDE to CF for replacing the IDE drive is a good and common upgrade for retrostations, you should also look into getting a Voodoo2, Voodoo3 or Banshee gpu as well.
This is one of my favorite eras. I build an AMD Thunderbird 1ghz machine around Y2K and it was a beast for its time. I ran Rage 128 pro graphics