My Win98SE Powerhouse: Athlon 750 (Slot A) & Voodoo 2 SLI. One of my 5 dedicated builds from DOS to Vista.
I finally finished the setup for my PC2 (Win98SE). It's a Slot A Athlon 750 on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE, featuring a 3dfx Voodoo 2 SLI setup for that native 1024x768 Glide glory.
This is part of my project to have a dedicated, era-appropriate rig for every major milestone:
- DOS (Late Era): A Pentium II / Voodoo 1 build. It’s a sound beast: ESS Audiodrive and PicoGUS are already in, and I’m adding a MT-32 soon. It covers basically every relevant sound standard in history.
- Windows 98 SE: The Athlon/Voodoo 2 SLI rig pictured here.
- Windows 2000: A recreation of my old LAN-party rig, but with all the high-end parts I couldn't afford back then.
- Win XP & Vista: These are my experimental playgrounds for early NVIDIA SLI tech.
I'm currently documenting the performance and unique sound characteristics of these machines (like the EAX on the SB Live! or the GUS audio) in a "longplay vault" to preserve how these games actually felt on original hardware.
What was the "unaffordable dream part" you finally added to your retro builds years later?
u/trq2023 — 15 hours ago