Windows 98 20th Anniversary All New PC Build
Building an all new computer from 20 year old parts for the Windows 98 20th Anniversary. Here are the specs of The New Windows 98 PC: OS: Windows 98 Second Edition CPU: 1GHz Tualatin Pentium III GPU: Voodoo 5 5500 64MB RAM: 512MB 133MHz SDRAM HDD: Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM EIDE PSU: EVGA 450BT 450W MOBO: Intel D815EEA2U(after using it, I don't recommend this board) CDD: Memorex 8xDVD+RW/+R 10xCD FDD3.5: Teac FD-235 FDD5.25: Teac FD-55 Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Case: Inwin Q500N (3rd revision I believe) Monitor: Hyundai ImageQuest V770+ Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Joystick: Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Gamepad: Microsoft Sidewinder game pad Mouse: Microsoft Cordless Wheelmouse This was a wild ride of a video. The Voodoo 5 being DOA was alarming and nearly derailed the whole project...twice. The Motherboard doesn't seem to support two floppy drives as well. I never had both drives working in it. I still need to do some more testing to figure out if I can put a different BIOS on it to support that properly. I also wanted to show POD running instead of NFS but it has some problems running, especially in Glide mode with the Voodoo5. And another problem was that I couldn't get the gameport on the sound card to work. I need to try using the VXD drivers still to see if that makes a difference. All those problems aside this computer is really great. I was pushing its backwards compatibility a bit far with MS Flight Sim(only about the top half of the screen is meant to be shown) but a Win98 build like this is great for old games. Sure, you could buy most of these on GOG or use the original disks/discs in a VM. But those make for a pale imitation of the real deal. The struggle is part of the fun, although maybe not recapping a Voodoo 5 level of struggle. This is going to be the start of a series of videos that will showcase different aspects of building an running an old computer like this. The upcoming videos about the parts I chose will help explain why they are the ones I went with and how well they work. This video was meant to be a cathartic romp of 90's PC nostalgia. There will be a lot more in depth content from this later. Playlists of more stuff like this: Computers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Windows 9X: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... 1990s: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Other Links Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/AkBKukU Github: https://github.com/AkBKukU Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/AkBKukU Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AkBKukU Discord: https://discord.gg/E6xgGs6
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Tech Tangents
3 months ago
Hello, this is a heads up post. You may have seen when I first release videos that they get swarmed with comments from bot accounts with wildly inappropriate profile pictures. I have been manually fighting these bots removing every post and blocking every account for months (maybe years at this point) and nothing is working to stop them. I've attempted to contact support at Youtube to get assistance with the problem and that lead nowhere. I'm now taking a stronger approach on blocking these account, the comments they leave are clearly AI generated with a consistent pattern. Specifically they always end in emojis, so to stop this starting today I'm going to be blocking all of the emojis they use to prevent the messages from showing up. I absolutely see more of these inappropriate messages than real usage of emojis, so hopefully this is a worthwhile tradeoff.
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Tech Tangents
3 years ago
At the end of the last office vlog I asked what everyone thinks about these office vlogs, so far the feedback has been 100% in favor of them so I'm probably going to keep them the same But while I'm still moving in like this, do you like these on the main channel or would the 2nd be better?
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Tech Tangents
6 years ago
I've received a similar piece of advice many times and am considering it more now. More directly mentioning the fact I have a Patreon campaign in my videos. So I came up with a poll to help me decide on that. Were you aware that I was on Patreon? I wouldn't be doing anything obnoxious, I would probably just vocally mention it at the end of my videos as I end them. I've had a link in the description for all of my videos. But it's common knowledge that people have a tendency to ignore those. I added the small animated video outro in October, and tried to time it so it would show up when I was still talking. But I have no idea how effective that is.
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Tech Tangents
6 years ago
As you have probably noticed, I've been going back and forth on the video numbers for a while now. On the one hand they are somewhat unique to the channel, but I've heard from a few people that they were initially a turn off for watching my videos when they were recommended. So I'm curious to get some feedback, should I continue numbering videos? I think this isn't a binary question though. The way I see it is project videos like my lights, GPS speedometer, and other pure AkBKukU stuff should probably be numbered. But something like the Creative Nomad II video probably shouldn't. I don't know where the line should be drawn. I'd be very curious to hear what everyone who watches my videos thinks. I'm leaning towards axing numbers altogether. But I am too close to them and only see all the drawbacks.
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Tech Tangents
6 years ago
I'm not going to have a video tomorrow. I don't have a "hard" schedule but I prefer to have a video every Tuesday and Saturday. But between mailing out PCjr power boards, sourcing and ordering parts for the next batch, and the unending problems I'm having with the 5150 project I just haven't had enough time to get it done. I couldn't have possibly put in any more effort. A lot of my 5150 problems right now are stemming from difficulties in getting DOS disks made. You would think it would be easy with how many systems I have. But most of my 5.25" floppy drives are 1.2MB and are incompatible with older systems. Right now I have a full height drive ripped out of a 5150 in my old 98 PC. But I also seem to have the worst luck with imaging software. DiskWrite always says my drive is open and won't try writing, WinImage crashes anytime I try to write a disk, and IMD works great but lives on it's own island of drive image formats that won't work with anything I can get online. I think I may need to re-install win98 again but that is a whole other pain I don't want to get into. (FIY, the new 98PC sucks at all things floppy so it's not really worth trying it on there.) I am working on a yet another project that will make future floppy disk endeavors much easier. So it may make more sense to just wait for that.
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Tech Tangents
6 years ago
My apologies on the accidental live stream. I'm doing some screen capture for an upcoming video and I inadvertently activated the stream in OBS. I was caught off guard by that. I'll be making sure that can't happen again in the future.
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