WasteGate

Thought I would register and make my first post in regards to your 'project'. Some background; with the announcement of Diablo 3 I thought I would find some of my old hardware and build a retro gaming rig and start playing Diablo 1 and 2 as well as some old favorites that I loved playing about 10 years ago. The rig I build a few nights ago is a Abit BE6-II mobo with a slot 1/s370 converter running a P3 1Ghz and 512mb of SDRAM. Adaptec 1200A ATA raid card with 2x40GB maxtors striped, Xitel Platinum A3D 2.0 sound card and my pride and joy a AGP Voodoo 5 5500 64mb video card. I loved Glide games so I'm keen to play them again. Before I even put an OS on it I ran memtest for 2 days constant to try and 'burn' it back in and see if it would fail and to my joy it powered through all tests error free. I have used these forums for years building XP build disks slip streaming apps in to them, these forums are so full of interesting projects so when I read about Windows 98se stuff I was keen sink my teeth in to my retro gaming rig. I have a pro version of 98 lite from years ago when i thought about doing this and the timing was right to kick off the install and wanted to run a 98micro install and have a lean / mean Windows 98se gaming rig. 20 hours of trying and nothing. I have had so many issues I'm about to put it to bed. It's made me appreciate Windows XP and Vista. It's a test of patience. I have had to overcome 98lite problems (not reading the 64.cab file so it's extracted to the 98SETUP directory (mind you if I install 98se from the media without 98lite it works no problems, there is others on the forums with the same issue), the Xitel A3D card is a pain in the arse never configures correctly locks up 98 on install, issues with the user profiles (have to boot safe mode and delete *.pwl files), finally last night got it installed and installed the "UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack 2.1a" all good, updated to "Maximus Decim Native USB ver.3.3" killed explorer now it doesn't boot. I hope your build goes well. Maybe I'm just trying to push the envelope but it's pushing me to my limits to try and get a working 98se PC. Sorry if that's long winded it's just my frustration coming out but when I get home I'll be trying my 17th install. Yes 17 goes at it and still nothing. Good luck Jason