Your welcome . Glad you enjoyed it. We have a motherfraker edition coming out soon with every whd load and every tosec pack, its over 128 gb so far, trying to get it down a bit
This is the main reason I picked up a Pi 400 in the first place. I had already grabbed Pimiga 1.2 but hadn't loaded it on a card yet, so this video came out at just the right time.
This is so much awesome! So nice to finally have a plug and play Amiga image. Trying to set something up without this is way challenging. This image has everything you need and just works! Thank You!
Seems very likely we will have ARM desktops as a norm verys soon. The new Mac Mini is ARM based. I can seem them wiping out x86 on boring work computers.
If you ever want to show stuff how to get the Pi 400 (ideally using either Pi os or Twister os) running other computers like the Apple iigs, Tandy Color Computer, and Ti 99 in various ways that would be awesome.
I still have my two original Amiga 1000 systems. Haven't turned them on in over 20 years and I assume the capacitors have all leaked by now. This makes me want to try Amiga emulation!
@@hidden_vault I'm dreading opening up the cases and looking at the motherboards. I can't solder to save my life, so I'd have to find someone to replace the caps for me.
@@ninjamaster3453 I need to learn to solder or find someone who can do it for me! I would love to see them running again since it was the last golden age of computers.
I threw my 500 in a dumpster decades ago, and of course now lament that decision. My 1084s monitor blew a cap in its flyback transformer, so it was kaput. If only I'd had the foresight.
This is indeed an amazing distro. But there are some issues they will probably iron out in the future. For example I experienced some crashes (leading to the linux prompt) and some apps give a garbled screen (such as one of the protracker versions). Others than that, this is very nice !! Thanks for the hard work of putting everything together for us!
Chris Edwards is the man behind pimiga. Please donate to its page if you appreciate his dedication and hard work. He is working on a x86 version right now 😊
Great distro but it does have problems even on overclocked Pi400. games and demos are clearly having issues with syncing audio and video, and various frame dropping even using a top of the line SD card. Same exact demos and software are running just fine using retroarch via retropie. Either the distribution is overly loaded and has optimization issues (seems to run on an old build of raspbian, not even 64 bit), or the current pi generation is not there yet to run the Amiga as configured.
My first computer was an Amiga 500 when I was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army. I happen to have a Pi 400 kit, so I think we know what will happen next. :)
Now do one on: Rastari! *Hides away from the Amiga fanatics* I kid, I was fortunate to grow up with both the Amiga and an Atari 1040STe. So the war was never a thing for me. :p
at 0:56 is that Fastloaders - Wastelands (from "The Last Ninja") - I was just watching that the other day - a great rendition of an amazing track from the C64 version of the game!
If just emulating the Amiga is your aim. A blinding fast Amiga that blows even vampire equipped Amiga 4000’s out of the water. Does WHD load, all that stuff. Can be used as a development environment.... The Raspberry Pie is just awesome You don’t get that hardware experience. The glow of using genuine hardware, the look and the feel. But MAN. Other than that it is superb. My 400 cost 75 quid for everything.
Nice video. I got this running on my ryzen 5 pc with winUAE 4.4. Runs the same just alot faster. Didn't run on my I7 laptop though, made a magic workbench system disk for that and just used all the data from PiMiga 1.4 so that now looks somewhat different but basicly has the same stuff + games. Could make a PC version for it, would be portable to. Just 1 dir.
Nice video. With the Pi400, does anyone else have a problem with keys: z (adds a space after each letter) x (automatically returns to a new line after the letter) and 2 (you get ‘2p’ instead of just 2) - when using a text editor, shell etc. Any ideas?
Tracker software is working. I tested some of the protracker versions. About midi, no idea. Maybe it supports some usb to midi adapters ? I have one of there maybe I'll test it.
My 1200 has 3.0 ROM's so ripping those won't work, right. I have a purchased copy of Amiga Forever Premium Edition 8. My understanding all the ROM images come with that but I can't find them, where are they on the disk, what folder?
I follow your instruction but I just end up with a drive called boot and no visible drive called "kick" any idea why? Use everything used in this video to the word.
I used to have an A1200 Amiga when I was younger so this really brings back memories, might be a reason to purchase this kit. I'm not sure how the emulators work with multiple disk games though (specifically the Jaguar XJ220 game)?
the mini shares hardware specs with a pi3 and the emulator it uses is a crippled mess, your better off with a pi4/400 and a normal emulator like FS-UAE or the likes.
i thought about doing this, but then i looked at the rpi400 keyboard its different from the amiga one and doesnt have certain keys necessary for some games. i think playing something like dungeon master would be impossible on it so thats a deal breaker for me
its beautifuly done but i do find quite a lot of errors when using some of the stuff and never liked scalos, better if it had used a standard o.s. 3.1.4 build
One Question! How many T-Shirts have you sold? over 1000? if i could buy one for 1,83€ I would have buyed 3 Shirts. For 18.30€ its to expensive for Me. I have HARTZ 4 :-(
Cool video. But, can you do something beyond Amiga, like perhaps Atari ST, Apple II, and or another classic home computer system. I do realize and like the Amiga, but there is an oversaturation of content and I would like to see just what all the Raspberry Pi 400 can do classic computer wise.
Ofc you can both of them are much less powerfull and easier to emulate You can emulate Mac Os even under emulation inside of the Amiga emulation on Pi400
Do you know if you can plug a floppy disk drive on to it and install/play original amiga game floppys on it? My mum would love this if she could finaly play her old favorite game with this!
I Bought the Pi 400 for exact this purpose! But I want to play the games with my 8Bitdo Controler via Bluetooth. Is that possible? Or is it just with the usb cable connected? Cant find a way to connect it via Bluetooth.
Just comparing the 400 to the 4 and I can get a 4 with 8GB RAM. The 400 only has 4GB RAM, but better processor with 1.8GHz vs the 4's 1.5GHz. I plan on mostly doing retro gaming and emulation so should I go for the 8GB RAM with the 4 or the better processor with the 400?
I have a question Will the a1200 rom from Amiga Forever work with pimiga without the amiga forever rom key or would I have to add the rom key with the kick rom
As much as I loved my amiga, I was always having to go track down some stupid Library file that wasn't included in workbench. Really made it frustrating for using creative applications.
Actually only one bad side with the 400: While you can get many languages, sadly no Pi 400 with blank keycaps is available :-( It would be so nice to get blank keycaps to dyesub your own Amiga keycap layout with the Amiga keys (or the BoingBall like on the AmigaOne keyboard, or one Amiga checkmark and one BoingBall for left and right Amiga key) onto the keyboard. It would make the Pi 400 even more nice...
Hello, I have a problem that the program doesn't load. After following your instructions I switch on the Raspberry pi 400 and I get a screen with four colours and then nothing but a blank screen. Is there something else I should be doing. I was so looking forward to using this so if you can help me that would be great.
ooooh you have all the iGame artwork, I'm struggling with finding a simple way to get those to display for my WHDLoad games in WinUAE. Was that setup out of the box with PiMiga?
I used to work in an Amiga only store in Los Angeles (KJ Computers). They were quite popular here due to the entertainment industry. Met Ron Thornton (VFX for Babylon 5) and got the chance to set up a couple of A500's for Pat Benetar's kids (her brother was a big Amiga fan) so I have a lot of fond memories of that time. I had no idea that they were considered a mostly British thing.
@@squishybrain Steve I found a business card from the shop I purchased it from last week, while going through an old wallet. It was called Bits and Bytes. I was going to college part time and working full-time at another job, so I envy you actually working at an Amiga store. Meeting one my favorite SIFI shows creative people.
Sorry I hit send for finishing the sentence. Great times. I would had seen a Amiga 4000 with a toaster card in it. Bits and Bytes folded before it came out. Well Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
Looks interesting, wonder how precise the emulation is. That is, could I actually install and run other SW to it. Also, I'd like to know what kind of Amiga the performance roughly equals on RPi 4. I actually bought a RPi 4 and other stuff to try this out. For some reason I could not get the 32 GB image to work (downloaded it on my desktop Linux box) but the 128 GB one seemed to work. Good thing I got a 256 GB memory card. Now if I had a way to get my old disks (own code, pics and anims) to the RPi...
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@JM Coulon the pi2 does it fine, i'd just like it to be a dedicated machine capable of switching between different versions for compatibility. I got the pi4 and I love having games for it emulated, but it'd be nice having a smaller box instead of my 3 massive versions that I run for different games. Also, I grew up with the machine, so it'd be nice having the whole environment from boot. It's a long shot, but I can dream. Edit; also, the pc-98 never supported pci. That would have been pretty cool, but we still had killer sound cards.
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Your welcome . Glad you enjoyed it. We have a motherfraker edition coming out soon with every whd load and every tosec pack, its over 128 gb so far, trying to get it down a bit
Awesome!!!!!!! You rock!
Looking forward to never needing my 500 again!
Whoa, sounds amazing cannot wait for that, thank you so far for all this :)
Don’t steal the vote
Can we get a version with nothing but workbench? Nothing else needed.
This is the main reason I picked up a Pi 400 in the first place. I had already grabbed Pimiga 1.2 but hadn't loaded it on a card yet, so this video came out at just the right time.
This may be 'just an emulator' but given the form factor? It feels more true to the platform.
What if the Apollo team would change the form factor of the Vampire 4 SA motherboard to be Pi400 compatible... HELL TO THE FUCKING YEAH!!!
@@thiesenf You'd be paying four times the price of your Pi 400 in order to downgrade it.
This is so much awesome! So nice to finally have a plug and play Amiga image. Trying to set something up without this is way challenging. This image has everything you need and just works! Thank You!
Imagine if the Amiga OS made a comeback when ARM desktops make a comeback.
I imagine IP rights are the bigger problem. Never mind Trademark (Amiga).
It’s on it’s way... the guys behind The C64 put out a silhouette teaser image for an A500 unit.
Seems very likely we will have ARM desktops as a norm verys soon. The new Mac Mini is ARM based. I can seem them wiping out x86 on boring work computers.
Its still around, though it uses PowerPC right now.
How long till someone ports Amiga os 4.1
Liked, finally something Amiga related!!
Just got my Pi 400 today. Amazing computer ! This seems very interesting, maybe I'll try it soon
Fantastic video, thanks for making it! I just received a Pi 400 for Christmas and I fully intended on running Amiga OS on it!
If you ever want to show stuff how to get the Pi 400 (ideally using either Pi os or Twister os) running other computers like the Apple iigs, Tandy Color Computer, and Ti 99 in various ways that would be awesome.
Is there a way to get the Tandy Color Computer coco2 / coco3 working on a pi400?
@@jasonb7865 that's what I'm hoping. Besides maybe Retroarch or Mednafen. Which I am not fond of.
"I think it's a little neater to install this up on the Raspberry Pi 400", what isn't? It is just such a neat form factor.
I still have my two original Amiga 1000 systems. Haven't turned them on in over 20 years and I assume the capacitors have all leaked by now. This makes me want to try Amiga emulation!
Get those recapped. Maybe sell them. Shame to go to waste.
i hope no batteries leaked acid ruining the board's
@@hidden_vault I'm dreading opening up the cases and looking at the motherboards. I can't solder to save my life, so I'd have to find someone to replace the caps for me.
@@ninjamaster3453 I need to learn to solder or find someone who can do it for me! I would love to see them running again since it was the last golden age of computers.
I threw my 500 in a dumpster decades ago, and of course now lament that decision. My 1084s monitor blew a cap in its flyback transformer, so it was kaput. If only I'd had the foresight.
Pi 400 kit ordered, Image downloaded, can't wait to get this up and running :)
This is indeed an amazing distro.
But there are some issues they will probably iron out in the future. For example I experienced some crashes (leading to the linux prompt) and some apps give a garbled screen (such as one of the protracker versions). Others than that, this is very nice !! Thanks for the hard work of putting everything together for us!
could you hack the PIO and get Midi out with Protracker???? Cool dude!!!
I love your channel and this video everyone else who trys to explain it dnt do like you your the perfect teacher
I have a 3B+ sitting there with my Amiga Setup, Now i have to get a Pi400 as this image looks easy and perfect
You can use a Pi4 if you want
@@fred-youtube yep i realise this, the keyboard is the right look
How’s the performance with pi3b+?
@@2dapoint424 Very Good, i can not remember the Flops Numbers but was High
But why?
This is really nice. A custom built system that you simply burn to an SD card. Awesome.
yes its linux distro with. mayby amibian that startup on boot
Chris Edwards is the man behind pimiga. Please donate to its page if you appreciate his dedication and hard work. He is working on a x86 version right now 😊
The 8 bit guy will love this mod
Great distro but it does have problems even on overclocked Pi400. games and demos are clearly having issues with syncing audio and video, and various frame dropping even using a top of the line SD card. Same exact demos and software are running just fine using retroarch via retropie. Either the distribution is overly loaded and has optimization issues (seems to run on an old build of raspbian, not even 64 bit), or the current pi generation is not there yet to run the Amiga as configured.
You should use Qbittorrent instead, it´s the best, it´s free and there´s no crap in it!
My first computer was an Amiga 500 when I was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army. I happen to have a Pi 400 kit, so I think we know what will happen next. :)
Try running a Macintosh emulator built for Amiga OS on top of this. Merry Christmas!
Shapeshifter is included
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Basilisk II is better
@@OptimusMonk01 cant please everyone.
Sounds like too much overhead emulating something twice when you could just boot straight into basilisk from Linux.
I have the earlier version of Pimiga updated to run on the Pi400 and it works a treat overclocked to 2.2ghz!
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year. Great video!
Take me back to good old days of Amiga and Commodore😔😔
Now do one on: Rastari! *Hides away from the Amiga fanatics*
I kid, I was fortunate to grow up with both the Amiga and an Atari 1040STe. So the war was never a thing for me. :p
at 0:56 is that Fastloaders - Wastelands (from "The Last Ninja") - I was just watching that the other day - a great rendition of an amazing track from the C64 version of the game!
If just emulating the Amiga is your aim. A blinding fast Amiga that blows even vampire equipped Amiga 4000’s out of the water. Does WHD load, all that stuff. Can be used as a development environment....
The Raspberry Pie is just awesome
You don’t get that hardware experience. The glow of using genuine hardware, the look and the feel. But MAN. Other than that it is superb. My 400 cost 75 quid for everything.
it was a guy called keito on the eab forums who started it, it could try well be Chris Edwards though. I'm on 1.5 on my pi 4 and loving it.
25GB?! My Amiga 2000 had a 20MB hard drive...! 😆
My Amiga 500 ran off of 2 880k floppies. No HD for me :P
@@adamross2256 Still a hell of an upgrade to a C64! (Loved both my C64 and A2000...Jay Miner was ahead of his time).
its linux distro and it must have ALOT useless things that emulator not need
@@adamross2256 Ha, good point!
@@jarisipilainen3875 that seems logical.
1.2 lockdown edition started round April last year on a facebook profile but after it blew up in popularity they suddenly disappeared.
Great video, this is a dream come true, the Amiga workbench, thanks for you work, gracias y que tengas un buen dia, have a nice day. Bye, adios.
I have 4 of these Pi400 and I still have not even got a chance to take them out of the box. You are going to make me do that ETA Prime
I've done this with my pi 400 and it really feels like an Amiga. Just have to find a decent usb joystick or game pad for it now
Look up "Speedlink Competition Pro USB" :)
Couldn’t agree more.
This actually makes me wanna buy the RP400
Would love to see a Workbench 1.3 version.
had a Pet , vic 20 C-64 and 128 but never got an Amiga I did go to the world of commodore show in Toronto back in 89
Nice video. I got this running on my ryzen 5 pc with winUAE 4.4. Runs the same just alot faster. Didn't run on my I7 laptop though, made a magic workbench system disk for that and just used all the data from PiMiga 1.4 so that now looks somewhat different but basicly has the same stuff + games. Could make a PC version for it, would be portable to. Just 1 dir.
Are you planning a video on how to store ( mainly where ), load and play amiga games with some games performances demoing ?
Nice video. With the Pi400, does anyone else have a problem with keys: z (adds a space after each letter) x (automatically returns to a new line after the letter) and 2 (you get ‘2p’ instead of just 2) - when using a text editor, shell etc. Any ideas?
Merry Christmas. Great video.
0:35 winamp?? Wow nostalgia
Wonder if tracker software works? What about midi and audio interfaces
Tracker software is working. I tested some of the protracker versions.
About midi, no idea. Maybe it supports some usb to midi adapters ? I have one of there maybe I'll test it.
Great video
Looks like a better, deal.
Than x5000.
Especially like the home micro style.
HI great video... one question how do you change screen size on this emulator. some of my icons are hidden away below the edges of the screen.
Can you run tracker software on this like the og amigas?
Yep
My 1200 has 3.0 ROM's so ripping those won't work, right. I have a purchased copy of Amiga Forever Premium Edition 8. My understanding all the ROM images come with that but I can't find them, where are they on the disk, what folder?
Absolutely ACE ETA
You can purchase Amiga Forever Essentials on the play store for $1.99 and that will get you licensed kickstart roms.
I follow your instruction but I just end up with a drive called boot and no visible drive called "kick" any idea why? Use everything used in this video to the word.
Can we still have access to Rasperry Pi OS if we use the Micro SD card that comes with the computer?
I used to have an A1200 Amiga when I was younger so this really brings back memories, might be a reason to purchase this kit. I'm not sure how the emulators work with multiple disk games though (specifically the Jaguar XJ220 game)?
all games have hdload versions so the amiga swaps disks on automatic if you start a multidisk game...
Doesn't work, i follow step by step, but the pi400 dont start the pimiga iso... any ideas?
I wonder how it compares (compatibility and loading speed) with Amiga mini.
the mini shares hardware specs with a pi3 and the emulator it uses is a crippled mess, your better off with a pi4/400 and a normal emulator like FS-UAE or the likes.
i thought about doing this, but then i looked at the rpi400 keyboard
its different from the amiga one and doesnt have certain keys necessary for some games.
i think playing something like dungeon master would be impossible on it
so thats a deal breaker for me
You can re-map keys with WHDLoad configs. Takes a little fiddling around but it does work.
its beautifuly done but i do find quite a lot of errors when using some of the stuff and never liked scalos, better if it had used a standard o.s. 3.1.4 build
Any idea how to run cd32 cds with audio? (Cue,bin). Whdload cd32 is without music tracks which breaks my heart😣
Ah, but can it play Mindwalker? It ain’t an Amiga if it can’t play Mindwalker...
if it amiga game and run on this kickstart then yes its run. it is 100% amiga
Do you get input lag due to the emulation side of this? Great video by the way.
Dude, you do not install Workbench to play Duke Nukem or Doom. You play all the amazing classic games the Amiga has.
This looks cool.
Amiga coding guys are gonna love it
One Question! How many T-Shirts have you sold? over 1000? if i could buy one for 1,83€ I would have buyed 3 Shirts. For 18.30€ its to expensive for Me. I have HARTZ 4 :-(
Those TEACs are very fitting for an Amiga build.
Cool video. But, can you do something beyond Amiga, like perhaps Atari ST, Apple II, and or another classic home computer system. I do realize and like the Amiga, but there is an oversaturation of content and I would like to see just what all the Raspberry Pi 400 can do classic computer wise.
Ofc you can both of them are much less powerfull and easier to emulate You can emulate Mac Os even under emulation inside of the Amiga emulation on Pi400
Do you know if you can plug a floppy disk drive
on to it and install/play original amiga game floppys on it? My mum would love this if she could finaly play her old favorite game with this!
ETA Pls help. I just got a pi400.i want to emulate more than amiga. How do I do this?
If you want an idea on how backed up they are I ordered one on the 11th and still haven't got it.
I Bought the Pi 400 for exact this purpose!
But I want to play the games with my 8Bitdo Controler via Bluetooth. Is that possible?
Or is it just with the usb cable connected? Cant find a way to connect it via Bluetooth.
How would I go about booting this off the SSD in my Argon 1 M.2 case rather than off the SD card?
Just comparing the 400 to the 4 and I can get a 4 with 8GB RAM. The 400 only has 4GB RAM, but better processor with 1.8GHz vs the 4's 1.5GHz. I plan on mostly doing retro gaming and emulation so should I go for the 8GB RAM with the 4 or the better processor with the 400?
Will it work to have keyboard connected to regular PC while Pi is running in background for instance?
I have a question Will the a1200 rom from Amiga Forever work with pimiga without the amiga forever rom key or would I have to add the rom key with the kick rom
Recent versions of the torrent are 47GB, so be prepared to wait one day up to a week to download.
Can you use that extra space on the SD card and add that to the Amiga partition?
merry christmad &happy New year
hello, How I can set reolution for monitor 4:3 1024x768 ?
I'm trying this on a Mac but can't see a kick partition to place my rom into?
As much as I loved my amiga, I was always having to go track down some stupid Library file that wasn't included in workbench. Really made it frustrating for using creative applications.
Actually only one bad side with the 400: While you can get many languages, sadly no Pi 400 with blank keycaps is available :-( It would be so nice to get blank keycaps to dyesub your own Amiga keycap layout with the Amiga keys (or the BoingBall like on the AmigaOne keyboard, or one Amiga checkmark and one BoingBall for left and right Amiga key) onto the keyboard. It would make the Pi 400 even more nice...
Fantastic. How do you add more games? Use another sd card?
Hello, I have a problem that the program doesn't load. After following your instructions I switch on the
Raspberry pi 400 and I get a screen with four colours and then nothing but a blank screen. Is there something else I should be doing. I was so looking forward to using this so if you can help me that would be great.
Try other hdmi port closest to power.
@@jasedobson2793 Thanks, all sorted now.
ooooh you have all the iGame artwork, I'm struggling with finding a simple way to get those to display for my WHDLoad games in WinUAE. Was that setup out of the box with PiMiga?
Having problems on pi400 audio is cutting on and off
Downloaded the torrent as you stated, but I cannot extract it , it's looking for a password ?
same here
An American? Talking about the Amiga? I must've hoped into an alternate dimension...
As a Canadian, even _I_ learned of the Amiga from the Brits...
I bought my Amiga 500 in 1988, really miss it. I one of the few in Tucson that bought one, so I can relate to your comment.
Merry Christmas!
I used to work in an Amiga only store in Los Angeles (KJ Computers). They were quite popular here due to the entertainment industry. Met Ron Thornton (VFX for Babylon 5) and got the chance to set up a couple of A500's for Pat Benetar's kids (her brother was a big Amiga fan) so I have a lot of fond memories of that time. I had no idea that they were considered a mostly British thing.
@@squishybrain Steve I found a business card from the shop I purchased it from last week, while going through an old wallet. It was called Bits and Bytes.
I was going to college part time and working full-time at another job, so I envy you actually working at an Amiga store. Meeting one my favorite SIFI shows creative people.
Sorry I hit send for finishing the sentence. Great times.
I would had seen a Amiga 4000 with a toaster card in it.
Bits and Bytes folded before it came out.
Well Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
amazing!! can you add more game roms of your own? and how? thanks
I thought the max supported cards were 32gb? Great if that has been solved.
This is 100% what ive always wanted ;-D
Has no idea what a PiMiga is.
Me: New knowledge! :D
Looks interesting, wonder how precise the emulation is. That is, could I actually install and run other SW to it. Also, I'd like to know what kind of Amiga the performance roughly equals on RPi 4.
I actually bought a RPi 4 and other stuff to try this out. For some reason I could not get the 32 GB image to work (downloaded it on my desktop Linux box) but the 128 GB one seemed to work. Good thing I got a 256 GB memory card.
Now if I had a way to get my old disks (own code, pics and anims) to the RPi...
not one windows update annoyance getting in the way during the whole video?!
Can you add whdload stuff to it? Sorry bout the noob question.
How did you connect those speakers to the pi 400? Asking for a friend 😉
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Not sure if you ever mentioned it in a previous video but what monitor is that?
Is there anything for AtariST? Port of Hatari maybe?
That looks cool
Does anyone here know how to access a usb thumb drive via the Workbench OS? I would like to copy downloaded Amiga files from my PC to my Pi400.
Oh man, all I want is a pc-98 booting into windows or dos. That'd be my dream!
@JM Coulon the pi2 does it fine, i'd just like it to be a dedicated machine capable of switching between different versions for compatibility. I got the pi4 and I love having games for it emulated, but it'd be nice having a smaller box instead of my 3 massive versions that I run for different games. Also, I grew up with the machine, so it'd be nice having the whole environment from boot. It's a long shot, but I can dream.
Edit; also, the pc-98 never supported pci. That would have been pretty cool, but we still had killer sound cards.