[Build Log] Mini-ITX PC - Middle School

[KalTorak]

That's possible. , but where do I find a GTX9600 these days? It's only $100 and I can use it as a spare in an emergency.

Are you suggesting that there may be problems because it is too modern?

You have serious hoops to jump through if you want to install 98 or 95. 98 has issues with over 512Mb or RAM, im not certain on 95, but I would guess it is more restrictive.

You will likely find that you have problems finding drivers. Large HDD's of today are too much for 95 and 98 to understand.

Maybe just Virtual Machine instead?

Ahh, a 9600, I had the 8800 and 9800. What cards they were!

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Let's re-set then.

I have a Duo core 8600, 4Gb of Ram, and a GTX 9600 running windows 7. All of the software I want to keep runs on this, heck it even ran on Vista!, some of it native, some in legacy emulation.

My system is dying, the motherboard is failing. If I lose it, I lose the OS too. What would you recommend?

 

[KalTorak]

It seems I missed 2 posts earlier. I would get the $199+tax system and migrate asap!

Save the games, they are all that matters! lol

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Tell me more about VM options. That could run on my existing machine and save a bunch of money.

 

[KalTorak]

http://www.essjae.com/virtualization/winvpc-installingwin98.pdf

That seems to be a fairly good guide to VMing 98 on Windows 7.

I must admit that I haven't tried this personally DonkeyOatie, it is only something I have researched, I deemed it too bothersome which is saying something about my character flaws rather than how difficult this is. Also, damned if I can find my Win 98 License key 🙁

 

[DonkeyOatie]

http://www.essjae.com/virtualization/winvpc-installingwin98.pdf

That seems to be a fairly good guide to VMing 98 on Windows 7.

I must admit that I haven't tried this personally DonkeyOatie, it is only something I have researched, I deemed it too bothersome which is saying something about my character flaws rather than how difficult this is. Also, damned if I can find my Win 98 License key 🙁

My Old OS are all OEM, so no keys.

There's is always a choice to be made between money and time.

 

[tsuneo6]

as for your question on how your machine would run a VM. it's plenty powerfull. you can pick the amount of RAM you dedicate for it. the number of cores from your CPU and the amount of drive space aswell. so you shouldnt run into compability issues there.
perhaps with GPU drivers but there must be some hero on the internet doing something with those drivers to get them to work on old OS

 

[DonkeyOatie]

It's the .dlls I need. I just remembered that my CPU, running iGPU is three times faster than my old computer with discrete GPU!, so I can just use that. If I pop an i5 into that cheap box, it should do the business. That should solve any driver problem. (famous last words)