Mastodawn

I spent this evening trying to get my physical retro PC, a Pentium 166MHz running Windows 98 SE, to connect to an 80GB IDE harddisk. The BIOS seems to be limited to a maximum of 8GB, but in the end I managed to get it working. I needed to use Ontrack's Disk Manager 2000 to install a DDO driver.

I guess I became too lazy! Emulating old hardware is so much more convenient than dealing with real-world limitations like this. 😅

#RetroComputing #IBMPC #PATA #Win98SE #BIOS

☠ Captain Arcee ☠Jan 24

Finally decided to set up my NEC PowerMate VP75 on my desk. I originally was running #MSDOS 7.1 on it but I decided to upgrade it to #Win98SE for convenience sake.

☠ Captain Arcee ☠Nov 10

If you're into late 90s/early 2000s #laptops, I highly recommend picking these up. A CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter, and an SD to CF adapter. Paired with an SD card, this works great as an option for a secondary drive on old laptops. I use a 128GB card for games and programs on #Win98SE on my Thinkpad T42

Jamie Booth Sep 25, 2025

Guess it's time to go find a spare PS/2 mouse...

#retrocomputing
#win98se

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Aug 18, 2025

YEAH! #Palm syncing in qemu (virt-manager) in #win98se on #linux host....

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Aug 18, 2025

Playing around with virt-manager in #opensuse. #win98se running. Still fiddle around to share an image or folder with the host linux.
#zipdrive will be the playaround, if I can't manage :)

DesertFOX Aug 16, 2024

I guess, it's a little late in 2024, but if you're still looking for a Windows 98 SE boot disk, I recently unpacked and uploaded a fresh one. German OEM edition.

https://archive.org/details/win98se_bootdisk_de_kryoflux

Have fun! 😎

#Win98SE #Retro #RetroGaming #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux

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1Bit Apr 26, 2024

The weeCees I built in 2021 are still going strong closing in on 3 years. (see TheRasteri on YT for more info)
#486 #win98se #msdos #vintage #pcgaming

DesertFOX Mar 2, 2024

Today, I upgraded my PC emulation setup to 86Box 4.1 and I also installed the new BIOS ROM set. Version 4.1 came with a long changelog and a lot of bugs were fixed.

I just played a few games and ran some sound and graphics tests. Everything seems to work just fine... Windows 3.11, as well as Windows 98 SE. I can only say "Thank you".

This is fun!

#Emulation #86Box #Win311 #Win98SE #pcMasterRace