currently copying oakcdrom.sys onto a floppy disk so I can install windows 98 on my socket 7 board because it's 1998 again

LET'S FUCKING GO!

fuck

there we go. there's something weird going on with the jumpers, so I had to stick it on the secondary IDE controller to get it to work

in retrospect, the "something weird going on with the jumpers" may be "I set them wrong"

install files copied. time for to begin

it's not as iconic as the win95 one but I should probably still put this screen in the death generator

FOR THE FIRST TIME!

I think the hard drive I'm using might be failing.
I'd check the SMART info but I think it's too old for that.
probably not a good sign

I'M IN

wow it has no red flags on the device manager! yes, it identified the graphics card wrong, but it didn't complain TOO hard.
and it even detected the USB!

I plugged in a USB drive but it doesn't have drivers so it didn't work

let's see if this works

BINGO!

now I can copy drivers over much more easily.
thankfully ASUS still hosts them.

hmm. they're zipped. what's the latest version of winzip that runs on win98se?

winzip 8 it is

I'm kinda amazed that this silly RGB optical mouse plugged in and worked with no issues or drivers needed

okay I got the video card installed properly (it's a Voodoo Rush board from Matrox!) and set a semi-appropriate background

@foone Matrox produced a Voodoo Rush board? They came out with the Mystique the same year Voodoo Graphics released… what a bizarre move, maybe "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"

Can we get a photo of the card? :)

@bobbyd0g @foone i used to have a matrox parhelia card. it was a piece of shit compared to the competition at the time, but it had a really good VGA RAMDAC.