cpucollector

I have to thank sdfox7 for that Active Scripting tip, I got here without having to press stop script once! I have Firexfox 8.0.1 and Opera 11.64, but my lowly PII 333 takes a little while to start those up, they use more memory, and I mostly use the browser to get files and customizations for Win98. IE6 SP1 is much faster and less of a pain to use now!

Yes, a raid controller can typically work in standard mode. As far as Windows 9x booting from a SATA hard drive connected to that motherboard, it really shouldn't matter. If it's detected in the BIOS and set as a boot device it should work. I remember when SATA first was starting to gain popularity, that part of why it was a slow start was because there wasn't much of a performance difference until 3.0gbs came out. from wiki: The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 1.5 Gbit/s is similar to that of PATA/133, but newer SATA devices offer enhancements such as NCQ, which improve performance in a multitasking environment. So I guess a newer SATA drive on a 150mb/s line should give you better performance. But not all early motherboards have support for NCQ. So if you've got the parts around, try it. If not, I wouldn't spend the money on a "might" be a little faster solution.

DOS ports of Lynx, WGET, CURL. Older versions though. http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/

2 ports but I'm sure an excellent BIOS (as all of their cards I've used have). Also, if you have modern hardware it would probably be easier just to run Win9x on DOSBOX. Any SATA card/motherboard that has Win98SE drivers is going to be 150mb/s, and if you're looking for speed you won't see much over UltraATA 133.

Last .exe for win98 Ghostscript 8.6 - I use it to use PDFs in Irfanview, but it does more than that.

I had a P166 running Win98SE with 24MB of RAM. Didn't run terribly but I wasn't expecting speed anyway. It now has 64MB (the total cacheable amount for a non-HX Triton chipset.), runs much better. Another thing you have to consider is what hardware do you want to hook up to it? Since it's a laptop you probably won't run into driver issues like a desktop, but 98SE has much better hardware support. EDIT: Also swapped the 166 for a 200MMX. That helped quite a bit also.

Wasn't dead earlier today... and that's no laughing matter, that site is great. Still available through Vetusware, and I'm sure other places as well... http://vetusware.com/download/98se2me/?id=10560 and the original guide is here... https://web.archive.org/web/20150602051927/http://www.mdgx.com/98-5.htm#KRM9S More edit: It's up again: http://www.mdgx.com/98-5.htm#KRM9S

DJGPP - http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ VIM - http://www.vim.org/ EMACS - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Just to name a few.

I'm running Win98SE on a P200MMX right now, with 98SE2ME. It's pretty rock solid. I've never liked ME, it was sluggish and buggy on my parent's first computer, and that was a 1.4GHz P4 with 256MB RDRAM. I especially wouldn't run ME on a P5 machine with the 64MB RAM cache limit (Any Intel Triton chipset other than the HX), while you can put more than 64MB of memory in one of these, it slows the entire machine down. Of course, with 64MB there's more paging (even more with ME), but system performance when not paging is much better. I would only put ME on a machine that doesn't have the 64MB RAM cache limit. Not personally, but you're going to have a lot of time to beat your head on your desk while things load and crash. This is more important than clock speed in my opinion. If you want stability just put NT5 (2000) on it. Would probably run better than ME. Edit: You don't need a patch or BIOS update to use large HDDs, just get a cheap UltraATA66/100/133 PCI card. Problem solved, and you get a faster interface as well.

Windows 98SE w/ 98SE2ME Siig JU-2NG011 Gigabit ethernet/3 port firewire/3 port USB 2.0 card. Siig SC-PE4B12 UltraATA133 IDE controller The driver for the RealTek 8169 ethernet chip that is on Siig's website does not work. Or at least I couldn't get it to. I found a newer driver on opendrivers.com and got it working. Firewire works out of the box. USB drivers work from Siig's website. EDIT: I forgot to mention, NUSB driver works much better. The IDE card enables those old motherboards with BIOS's that don't recognize large hard drives correctly to see the entire hard drive. DOS boots from this card no problem, for some reason I couldn't get any NT based OS to boot from a HDD attached to this card.