We bought a NEW Windows 98 Gaming PC?
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Who would have thought you could be a new gaming PC with Windows 98 loaded onto it!? This eBay seller has a love for nostalgia and they make 3D printed cases for their used and new parts Windows 98 systems, which have unique hardware requirements due to the age of the OS. Today we’re gonna play some vintage games!
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despite all of the confusion they had in this, the pure joy of just seeing people expiriance this era of gaming (even if the games they played wasnt the best of its time by any means) is just fun to watch. would be interesting for them to revisit this with some more higher-end games of the time. see how it runs half life, quake 3, unreal, the first 2 fallout games, i can go on and on. i know they probably wont do that as they are busy with more modern builds, but its a nice thought
Confusion. That's the word..
without a sound card and a graphics card from the time I think they are stuck playing older dos games mostly.
I can almost guarantee that machine cannot play anything requiring 3d acceleration. Not very well, at least.
yeah, I was wondering why they were playing mostly built-in and DOS games. back when I was rocking Win98, it was all about Doom, Quake, Tomb Raider, Deathtrap Dungeon, Half Life, Unreal,... but I quess their onboard GPU is 2D only.
Not a NASCAR fan by any means but I can’t let that slide. “Dale Earnhardt” when he’s holding a Jeff Gordon car/mouse 😂😂
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Bro I literally came to say the EXACT same thing. Damn calling dale, Jeff gordan is a damn disgrace to dale.
I had to come here and say in place of my uncle he hated Jeff Gordon with a passion lol
I watched NASCAR for several years, and I cringed when they named my favorite driver and but had a Jeff Gordon mouse.
@@jforce321 I never understood why Jeff Gordon got so much hate.
Watching a bunch of guys who are around 20 years younger than me try to play games that I grew up playing on the OS that was on the first computer that I bought is priceless. I was less cringing and more laughing. 🤣
I was 19 years old in 1998 and I had a full time job but still lived with my parents. I bought the first PC that ever graced that house, it was a Compaq Presario with a 223 MHz Cyrix processor, 64 MB RAM, a whopping 4GB HDD, built in SIS graphics, and a blazing fast 56K modem. It came with Windows 98 and, back in those days, you even got a couple of games with the computer. I forget what one of them was, but one was a motorcycle racing game that was pretty fun. Two of my first ever PC upgrades I did were a 3D graphics card and a DVD-Rom drive. I went into the Army in 2001 and I gave that computer to my mom, who used it for several years.
That computer you guys bought has some sick specs for Windows 98. 1 GHz and 512 MB RAM is a lot for that operating system, since my first computer had nowhere near those specs and ran Windows 98 just fine. Also, I beg to differ on Windows 11 being better than Windows 98, especially Windows 98 SE, which is likely what that computer has. The original Windows 98 was a hot mess that would BSOD a lot, but it was the Second Edition that made it a beloved release. But, me thinking it's better is probably an age thing, but also because I know that the next release was Windows ME, which was absolutely dreadful.
Glad you could enjoy our confusion and chaotic Windows 98 experience!😂
Buys a windows 98 pc and plays games on it that are 20 years before its time.
As someone who is turning 37 in 2 weeks, I feel personally attacked by this video. This must be how Boomers feel, but I don't have a fat 401k or a house that has quadrupled in value to wipe my tears away with.
Quake III - 1997!!!
Duke Nukem - 1995!
Unreal Tournament -1998!
although, i dont think the via chip with igp can handle those games...
nice video guys
Quake III - 1999
Duke Nukem 3D - 1996
Unreal Tournament - 1999
FTFY
@@Keullo-eFIN My bad, it's been a while I played those games ;)
@@Ranimetion no worries buddy :)
You need to install Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life.
Win 98 was so good. I remember getting in trouble at school for installing and playing games like Hot Rod and Doom 95. Yea, once upon a time PCs in school were like the wild west until us 80s kids ruined it for everyone, lol.
We had Doom demo installed in every pc in the pclab in Highschool. It was only like 1 level iirc, but man, we played the shit out of it LOL. That was my first experience with fps. Then we also had Wolfenstain 3d.
The funny thing is... that wasn't students installing it... and it was in every pc... At the time noone had any idea of how to even copy that or anything.
@@josejuanandrade4439 I remember a friend that, looking back, had major hacker vibes, giving us all sharware discs and floppies, even some pirated games but I didn't know that at the time. That's what got me into pc gaming. Then I got my first pc and realized I had use to ms-dos for most of what I wanted to play. Had to read the manual because schools only taught us win 3.xx. It was worth it though.
I remember taking sound bites from CDs and using them as PC shut down.....
Rob Zombie shouting I can never die!! Lol. I can't do that with Win11
When they emptied the box I was like where’s the pc😂 but it was in jacks hand 😂 heavy duty
hey man the clear plastic is the classic 90s aesthetic i think its super nice
USB came out in 1997, there was a custom Windows 95 USB edition released that added USB support, Windows 98 came with USB native, and it upgraded the partition to 32bit. Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) added USB 1.1 Support.
The reason they are confused with the pins here is that USB 1, 1.1, and 2 were all the same exact physical interface. But it may be a surprise, most modern pc's cannot negotiate USB 1 on the internal headers, but USB 1 devices usually work on the rear usb ports.
Oh man these games brought back the nostalgia lol. I'm 32 so I was 8-10 years old when these games were out.. I did play alot of them. In that game Stunts you can actually make your own race tracks, I remember making insane impossible tracks filled with obstacles and having my friends try them.
feel like you missed an opportunity to play duke nukem and command and conquer games but that did look like a fun blast from the past
This is cool to see retro PC's being brought back to lifeagain!
You young pups. I remember going to a midnight opening of Incredible Universe (now gone) when I was in college to buy the brand-new Windows 95! The place was packed and all you heard playing was the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" playing in the background. I remember buying a copy of Windows 95, the Plus software and an additional 4MB of RAM to get me to a total of 8MB. Buying all that got me a free Microsoft Windows 95 remote control Indy Car. What a great night.
VIA was mainly a chipset maker in the late '90's, but they did make some x86 CPU's, like the "Joshua" CPU. And that "9-pin" port was a serial port. USB before there was USB. And speaking of USB, Win98 did not natively support USB, that came with an update later on, and that was only USB 1.1. The motherboard likely does not support USB devices - they only work in Windows. And yes, PS2 ports are not hot-swappable. I'm just a bit older than you guys - 60 - so I remember all this.
Iirc, win95 was the one that didn't natively support usb until an update. Win98 had usb baked in from the get go...of course not well. Anyone remember the bsod as ol billy was demonstrating how easy it was to connect a usb scanner? Good times.
Retired pc tech (age 70 years)can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to tell end users to power cycle after reconnecting KB/Mouse/Monitor😂😂😂
Actually via was only a chipset maker until they acquired cyrix.
my kid is your age, 26 (27 in sept.). he first touched a pc when he was 1, and got his first when he was 3, an old 98 box he played sim city, and his arthur games on. by the time he was 5-6, he had an xp box playing the need for speed series, then unreal, quake, and half-life...
Just seeing windows 98 in the title brought back painful memories of the page that will float from 1 envelope to the other when downloading or copying
I remember Dig Dug. I also played age of empires 1 and 2, buggy(1998), hamster ball(2004), etc. I loved playing this game as a kid in the 2004-2009(I was born 1999). I even remembered playing need for speed 2 on the old celeron pc.
I'm 45 years old and not cringing one bit. PC gaming was not easy back in the MS-DOS era which is why PC gaming took so long to take off, especially in Europe where the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST ruled the roost. Fair play for giving it a shot, this would be like me going back and getting an Altair 8800.
oh my gosh!!! Does it have fuses and other resistors on the board? Wow old school man!!! nice one
Being 42 and still gaming on a pentium 200 with a voodoo1 with windows 98, i really enjoyed this video. I noticed 2 games they had in there, street rod and street rod 2, that were more in the dos era than win98. You should probably try some quake or some era accurate ones, not games from the 80's that ran in my 486
I have all the parts for a Windows 98 PC that I used to build my first one in 1998, except for the case. I already have an XP one I built last year and am going to build the Windows 98 one sometime in June. I built my first PC in 1998 just to play "Half Life."
Watching the struggle at Lose Your Marbles was worth the watch. Loved this game when i was a kid and would play with my sis.
0/10 we definitely lost our marbles
I always saw those old VIA ITX boards decades ago and wanted to build something with one, but never did!!! COOL!!!
VIA makes a lot of embedded/industrial boards. They're low power, but the performance is, middling, though good enough for their application. VIA got the X86 license through Cyrix, which was the third chipmaker back in the 90's.
In the BIOS is where you enable legacy USB support, the mouse will work.
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Thanks for the support!
Shoots me some nostalgia! I started out with Win98 but all I used were buggy and glitchy mess.
Remember that all the old Star Wars games were made for Windows 98, but also Roller Coaster Tycoon.
bros really dropped a dracula flow reference. legends.
if I remember correctly, you had to have the mouse and keyboard plugged in on boot, you couldn't just remove them with out rebooting also. took them awhile to figure this out y'all aint even that young
So PS2 is not hot-swap, but it has a huge advantage over USB... a USB keyboard can only use 10 keys at once, if you press more than that (or can type really fast) it will just drop keys. Higher end keyboards will actually install as 2 or even 4 keyboards (seriously check your device manager) to overcome this 10 key limit, raising it to 20 or 40 keys... but a PS2 keyboard can use all 101 keys simultaneously. Which was actually necessary for some old programs like MechWarrior 3.
I spent my teens on one of these, bro, cant remember half of high school, but i can remember everything about command and conquer red alert 😂
My first "gaming" PC was a Win98 box and the game I enjoyed playing the most was Tomb Raider III.
I played the absolute hell out of Street Rod when I was little. 43 now. Dad was IT I've had a PC in the house since 1986. I even put it and a couple other games: Death Track 2000 (I think), and Retaliator, on 3.5 floppies and play them in certain computers in HS in the late 90s. Wasn't cutting edge at all but I was playing computer games while at High School, it was fun.
Street Rod: For anyone interested...
You start with $1,200 and you use the Newspaper to buy used cars, and car parts. Once you have a car you can race other drivers for cash or their car, referred to as "pink slips", or "racing for pinks". This game has a 1950's theme. As you win money you upgrade and even tune your car. You have a garage where you can have 3 cars IIRC, and you buy and sell your cars as you make money and win other driver's cars. Never played the sequel, but I'm sure they added assets: cars, parts, drivers, tracks, ways to tune the car, that was pretty much it for the original.
These old games are what modern games turned into. Many of the ideas are 30, 40, 50 years old because they're practical and realistic. Glad you guys, as computer guys, get to look at what the rest of us were doing at that time. Also gotta get some AAA games from the time to test that dvd and apu. There were definitely some good ones.
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Old thin clients in a new box. Kinda want one but not for $300. Throw in a PCI radeon 9100/9200 or fx5200 for a boost in 98 era games.
Everyone knows, the only true way to experience Windows 98 is with the 38 disc Floppy installation set... that... was insane and I do not miss it.
yeah, if you were a luzer and didn't have a CD-ROM drive. My PC had one in 1994.
The only issue I can think of is the lack of a proper 3D graphics processor
I used to love that hot rod game.
You completely failed not putting Heroes of Might and Magic in the video.
Loved me some Street Rod II
My PC use goes all the way back to DOS 3.11 that I grew up as a kid, then a 6 YO me was playing Red Alert 1. Kept complaining of it being slow until my Dad got a new Blaster PC System from Creative with a 64MB RAM, a 400MHz Pentium II, 10GB Hard Drive and a Radeon 7000 GPU with 64MB RAM. Quite funny that my VRAM had the same amount of RAM as my system RAM back then! Blasted Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo II, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and somehow able to chug along CnC Generals quite adequately after upgrading to 384MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and a GeForce 2 MX400 despite needing a CPU with double the clock speed (800) that I had!
I'm in my 30s and i cringed.😂
Put a voodoo 3dfx in that pci slot. Think I still have one of those.
that would be ideal. Unfortunately I think the case is too small. It looks like it would only take a half-height card.
on second thought, you might be able to wedge one in there with a 90 degree PCI riser. Maybe.
So interesting to see how retro hardware isn't for everyone. If you don't have affection for the games of the era it just isn't going to be fun. This is a single-board computer that would have mostly been used for industrial purposes (looks like a VIA C3) - it's faster than a typical period-correct 98 machine and designed to run 98 for industrial equipment and the like long after 98 was commonly used. I don't know what the onboard graphics are but they probably aren't great for any 3D acceleration and you'll want to use a discrete GPU for anything that requires hardware 3D acceleration.
This would be a great machine to run Doom, Duke 3D or Quake (not GLQuake) on. Also good for 2D games like adventure games, Civ 2 / Simcity 2k, and stuff like that. If you want to see what it was like to run Half-Life when it came out and you didn't have a 3D card...this will show you that too.
That VIA board was a low power embedded board for industrial purposes. It would have been popular around 2003.
Play Return to Castle Wolfensein, Medal of Honor Warchest, Quake III Arena and use 3D mark for geting FPS and almost forgot Half Life, Age of Empires II
Ah man, I was born in 82, this hits me right in the feels. VIA is chipsets manufacturer that support CPUs from Intel, AMD. Via is not a CPU. I was waiting for DXDiag and see if this beast can handle basic DirectX 3D acceleration....
VIA is not a CPU? WRONG, grasshopper, VIA did make a CPU back in the day for Super Socket 7 (the most universal PC platform ever, could take chips from Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and VIA) called the C3. That's what this is. It's 1GHz but runs more like a 300MHz Intel because its IPC sucks. But that's okay for what you want to do with Windows and DOS. In fact it can even be downclocked and you can disable speculative instruction and/or instruction and data caches to get the speed down good and low to run old games like Wing Commander without being too fast, if you use a utility called SETMUL from DOS. But these guys wouldn't know anything about that because it's ancient lore. They just did this video on a subject they knew nothing about without doing any research and ended up looking like idiots. But I guess that's their brand. When I want REAL retro content I go to Phil's Computer Lab.
@@SeeJayPlayGames Yes, it looks like they did, but those were not very common around my country, mainly just VIA motherboards from era of Intel Pentium MMX 233 for Socket 7. But it looks like they did manufacture integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory.
Yes. EaseUs. Buy the product you'll use one time for a transfer because we want the money you didn't need to spend when you have so many other good alternatives to pick from that don't cost money.
Stop. There is no way he's two years younger than me. Beard man over there.
did seem like an open pci slot, should upgrade the gpu on it and play some duke nukem. would love to see some retro builds.
it's just sitting there begging for a 3Dfx card, but I'm afraid it might need a riser cable in order to wedge one in because the case is too short.
@@SeeJayPlayGames the seller has a case expander for this exact reason, i shot a message to find out.
old fart here, Microsoft Combat Flight simulator, I ran it online on Windows 98, Pentium 133 . It will still work and is a lot of fun.
What. Where is it pci?? I need it for logic sound card
Is it glow n the dark plastic?
I wonder if that’s a glow in the dark filament my printer uses some that color.
I was thinking the same thing.
Heroes was the best game of the era :D, palayed the hell out of that game, go play it!
Awesome content as always guys. I LOVE the way the seller mixed and matched the old school parts with more modern add ons. Next time you want to be "surprised" perhaps ask for a PLEASANT Surprise? 😆
You could have playet A LOT more with that pc. I've played Diablo 1 on a Pentium 75 with 16 MB of ram! 1 Ghz is crazy. Starcraft 1 requires a 90 Mhz CPU!
Can you review the Newmen gm326 gaming keyboard
@LGR Is this something that might catch your interest?
I remember playing Ski Free on windows 95
Microsoft Plus was an addon for Windows 98 SE.
yeah mostly themes and stuff, nothing major
I loved street rod and street rod 2
65 w raspberry pie , no dude !!!!!
to bring some light to what the pc is and why it looks different to a regular motherboard. this is an embeded pc. the cpu is a soldered bga x86 chip by Via(no support for anything x64) and you would find these in industrial uses like in big photocopiers running a print server. or in industrial factory machines(production line machines) or even ad displays in like McDonalds drive-throughs would have one of these enclosed in each display. in most cases they would not run windows. but a unix/linux kernel. which is why the seller is 3d printing cases for them. they were not in pc cases, they would be enclosed in the machine and have no human interaction with it nor have a keyboard/mouse attached to it. depending on its use it would ether just have power. ethernet for remote access and a monitor. or would have no display conection and would only have power. ethernet and rs-232(serial) to the machine it would run. and thats all they did. they would run 24/7 for years. so the seller has found all of those from old scrapped machinery and instead of having them scrapped as ewaste he is making them into retro game pc's
Being from the era this OS was around, its a little painful to watch these guys struggle with the problems with drivers lol.
Windows 98 is sort of funny. If your motherboard has serial pins. You can tap the USB into there.
i'm 42 and I want to forget this era lol
that 100% is Centipede.
Have a second, older, pc. It's modified for dosbox (games like "Albion") and other older games, pre or early 2000.....
YOU GUYS MADE ME FEEL OLD! LOL
now i feel old i remember win 95
I remember only having Apple IIe computers in school. You guys are so frick'n young! Kids!! Lol!
Maybe if it was connected to the internet, you could of went to your site.
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But, can it run crysis?
No duke nukem? Shadow warrior? Doom 2?
You should be able to play OG Baldur's Gate series.....
DUNE 2......oh the days....
Monkey Island in DOS...
Ha ha I was thinking to myself 'I bet they think PS2 is plug n play'.
Ah yes Windows 98 I remember it well
512mb ram? holly molly that's a lot!
born in 00... I graduated that year :/
i was already playing quake (1996) and unreal by 98, and unreal tournament online in 99. but, maybe your board can run a pentium 3?...doubtful. this seems more like a gimmick. you'd be better served building an actual period correct machine, and install a voodoo 3 !!
Sim City 2000 is still great.
dang i'm 35 born in 89 i use to play on windows 95 lol
Guys counterstrike was on win 98
The mb is from a thin client
How could you have a Windows 98 PC and NOT play Duke Nukem or Quake? What a horrible miss.
If you see this toasty Brosnan just built my first pc thanks for the help
But can it run doom?
street rod is a dos game!
When a PC case looks like a bar of soap.
Welcome to our world back in the days lol
i tried worms world party pc version and i think my RX 6600 did not like that
because i got a white screen and nothing else . i remember playing it on win 3.1 95 98 and even win me with no problems so maybe its a bit old to play nice with my 5800x and RX +6600 with 32 gigs of 3600 mhz ddr4 ram and a bunch of gen4 nvme's lol . at least it bugged/crashed fast ha ha
I was ok with the whole not knowing much about windows 98....but when you said Dale Earnhardt as he brought out a Jeff Gordon car mouse is when I cringed more. Lol
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For those that do not recall the Plus! package was an add on for Windows 98. It would add more screensavers, desktop themes, and additional games.
It had it’s own CD and packaging.
If I recall you could buy them as a package deal later on.
Now add an RX580
should play the first fallout game
Load up quake or doom