cheap windows 98

Buy a $20 laptop from craigslist.

>>62147427
Buy any old business HP or Dell and load up 98 on it.

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Older dell with the cool RDRam

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>>62147871
do you know any names or models of those systems?

>>62147427
Buy or get for free very old computer parts.

>>62148434
Anything with a Pentium 4 or older.

>>62147427
there's literally a thread already for this shit >>62139153
why did you think it's a good idea to make a thread about it?

>>62147427
Building a Win98 machine is mostly pointless.
You really want to build a DOS machine that dual boots 6.22 and Win98se.

So, that means you want ISA so that you can run a real SoundBlaster 16.

So, basically, about the best hardware that can fully run DOS is a Pentium3 800ish MHz w/512MB RAM. Video card wise you might be able to find something like a Mach64 card and a couple VooDoo cards. Hard drive is probably best served with a Fast CF card to IDE adapter or U3 speed SD card to IDE adapter.

Don't forget the CDROM.

3Com Etherlink 100Mbps LAN

>>62149328
That's probably the cheapest way to do a early 90's DOS to late 90's Win9x machine.

Else you'd want to go separate with a DOS and Win9x machine.
Like a 486DX4 VLB box with Roland/SoundBlaster/DreamBlaster and a Turbo button for DOS and a 1GHz PIII with a proper AGP video card and Voodoo 2 SLI, Audigy/Vortex for Win9x.

>>62149260
because i wanted to do it

>>62149465
The thing is that most anything for Win9x can be run on current hardware. It's the DOS stuff you need real hardware for - booter games, DOS 4GW (like Comanche). Realistically, DOSBOX can handle like 95% of it, but some things need real hardware.

Also, if you want to try out stuff like OS/2, you need real hardware.

>>62149518
>The thing is that most anything for Win9x can be run on current hardware.
Yeah, unless you want proper EAX/A3D and Glide and not emulated shit. Same with DOS and emulation.

>It's the DOS stuff you need real hardware for - booter games, DOS 4GW (like Comanche).
Then you need an actual DOS machine, something that won't even run Win98 well.

>Also, if you want to try out stuff like OS/2, you need real hardware.
OS/2 runs great in Qemu and VMware though. All the drivers are there.

>>62149328
what's wrong with windows 98's built in command line?
you can reboot into DOS mode, or press F8 at boot and not start the graphical user interface

>>62149923
MS-DOS 7.1 should be 99% compatible.
But 6.22 is compatible for sure.

>>62149923
>what's wrong with windows 98's built in command line?
Usually nothing...
But some stuff is really written to the wires, like Desqview/X. Not sure what, but there is always something that will b0rk on Win9x that is OK in real DOS.

>>62149328
Dual-booting DOS 6.22 alongside Windows 98 is pretty pointless too, unless you like to play around with MS Anti-virus, compression, and old defrag/scandisk utilities, which would rape a FAT32 partition or wreak-havoc in your Windows directory.

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>>62151707
What do you mean?
You can't emulate A3D or Glide with VMware.