oh yeah we can play blood properly now

...except the OPL3-SAx glitches out after a while in blood and only blood WHYYYYYYY i though they were supposed to be good for this

#retrocomputing #DOSgaming #Windows98SE

found my pcmcia/cardbus stash, some of them even work

that BWP 712 is the good atheros shit that had the low level linux drivers that let you do all kind of wifi crimes

used it with XP a lot too on my late-2000's Pentium III 1.3ghz busted keyboard toshiba laptop cyberdeck

there's Win98 drivers that claim to do WPA2 which is hard to come by there, but i had no luck getting it to connect to anything

apparently it was off by default but after toggling "USB function" in the BIOS setup we have USB!

this laptop is a fully functional ode to the final days of DOS gaming and demoscene, and early Win9x pre-3dfx era gaming 🫡

(except for the dead panel and dead battery back RIP)

#retrocomputing #Windows98SE

whoo cardbus works now

first order of business is networking

the second it is online is the second i can stop shuttling things over on goddamn floppies

heck yeah we're jacked in

#retrocomputing #Windows98SE

@mxfraud @ann3nova

Well, after a day of fighting uphill both ways in the snow, we have 98SE working, with real graphics, and dialup networking!

No sound yet, and that's been a disaster, but it's something. Next: Sound, then games.

Thanks for the tips @nazokiyoubinbou , will check out 98Lite  

https://neon.cybre.stream/w/iEr4YoZRwWw4LUTbkXiias

#RetroNetworking #retrocomputing #RetroGaming #windows9x #windows98 #windows98se

Bad news: this machine doesn't support booting off USB.

Bad news, supplemental: can't find my USB floppy drive. It's probably in a box somewhere.

Good news, surprising: found a NIB 56k serial modem in a different box, and CD-Rs can still (apparently) be bought locally, so... Winning?

Let us journey!

#retrocomputing #windows98 #windows98se