Building a Windows 98 Gaming PC in 2016 Is a Pain in the Ass

1998 was such a serious class for PC gaming . Half - Life , Grim Fandango , Baldur ’s Gate , Star Craft , Rogue Squadron , and many , many more . Dang . Those looking to live over the glorification days could easily run most of these games through a virtual machine , but YouTuberninetook it a stone’s throw ( or several ) further and built a period - accurate 1998 gaming cheat .

Nine ’s build features a motherboard with a Pentium 4 , a monolithic 240 - James Watt business leader supply , 256 mb of RAM , two ocular drives , a floppy drive , and a 120 GB unvoiced drive . The crown precious stone is an NVidia VANTA RIVA TNT2 — what a goddamn mouthful , right?—to power those sweet , gratifying graphics . With all those sand secure it became obvious how galling it is just to hook all this stuff up and go up it inside a mammoth enclosure .

The real fun initiate when Nine ’s sword novel ( honest-to-god ) calculator embark on having equipment driver issues with the video identity card . Remember having to incinerate candle ? Me neither , but it seems like a liberal hassle . After who knows how long , he in conclusion gets everything in working order and boots up the gory goodness that was Quake 3 .