I'm always amazed how I start watching, already having read the premise of the video on the title, and the video being 30+ minutes long. Never change, Mike.
I get Druaga1 vibes from MJD in how he's often running into problems in much the same way. Glad he's filling that void, Druaga1 doesn't even upload anymore.
3:35 Industrial cards also have several times better write endurance. With older Windows tending to write a lot to the swap file, it makes a huge difference.
The other advantage of DMA over PIO is that the latter is prone to freezing as the CPU handles all the transfers. Something cool you can do now that you’ve got the reader: you can set up the disk however you want and then image it on a modern system. That way you can always restore back to a good point no matter what might have gotten screwed up.
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Back in 1995, I picked up a SyQuest EZ135 IDE drive, and quickly discovered that it could be used as a boot drive, not unlike what's being done here with the CF card reader. I had EZ135 disks for DOS/Win 3.1, OS/2 Warp, Windows NT 3.51 (with the Chicago shell for a while), the Chicago beta, and various flavors of Linux and FreeBSD. Since IDE DMA was not quite a thing back then, the performance wasn't bad compared to a contemporary HDD. If I could do the same thing with NVMe drives, I would.
Icy Dock has some cards like the MB840M2P-B which put M.2 drives on an external tray which you can slot into their adapter in the back of your PC. It's not cheap though, ~$110 + $45 for extra trays. But honestly, with UEFI and GPT you should be able to have multiple OS on the same drive with less hassle. rEFInd makes choosing which OS to boot nice and easy. At least it should, I haven't actually tried multiple OS on one drive with UEFI.
It's like hmmm what OS I want to use today and just slap in a card haha awesome
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@That Guy I did see that when I was shopping for a new computer. It looks good, but I wouldn't buy a whole workstation class machine just for that feature!
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@eDoc2020 thanks, I looked at it, but don't see any way to order more carriers, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. You're right, GPT should make it easier to multi-boot, and I do have Linux and Windows installed on most of my machines that came with a Windows license. My only gripe is that Grub doesn't make it easy to make one or the other the default easily. Back in the day, I used to use loadlin from DOS to boot linux. The EFI partition isn't as easy to get into, sadly.
27:08 Ohh yes, I remember this installer. As a kid I would try to install Half Life because I had no idea what that was, and this sound scared me SHITLESS. I then IMMEDIATELY turned off my computer and left the CD on the shelf swearing to not touch it ever again. And about 9 years later I fell in love with the franchise. How the tables have turned.
I really don't know how long I've been watching your videos for but I always think they are good value - even when things go wrong you still explain why. I do really like watching them especially videos about the '98 PC - it brings back so many memories, especially with the intro music!
I definitely feel that “repeat subject drop-off” stuff. I’ve noticed some larger channels will wait 6-12 months to revisit a subject even when it did hugely. I suspect they learned to do that the hard way! I think it’s important to curb that urge to go “oh, this did well, I’ll do it again!” right away. I’ve seen other medium-sized channels run into that as well, like Star Trek channels doing a string of species videos or technology videos and engagement drops off on the second or third one. I’ve always found using patterns similar to various rhyming schemes can help avoid overloading the subject matter. Especially I find them a useful guide for how much direct repetition will be received well.
Just wanna share something that I think fits perfectly with this channel's audience: I recently got an LG smart TV from the mid-2010s that had a built-in internet browser. I was surprised to discover that it can still play Flash games! Most of the games run at like 5 FPS but still
wow I am thrilled to see my Donated Copy of Microsoft Return of Arcade being used!!!!!! I know Michael you're going to have a lot of fun with Return of Arcade! and Great VIDEO Cool to see you playing Ms Pacman
Every time I get a notification for a new MJD video, I want to drop everything and watch it right away. As long as you keep uploading videos about stuff you're interested in, I'll keep watching them no matter what the topic.
My Pentium 2 Gateway bought Aug 1998’s motherboard was a “Bryant”. Went through the driver disc many times! A beige spray paint or vinyl wrap may look great on the faceplate. Great vid.
I loved this video and i love your style. Your style is very charming regardless of the topic, and it’s interesting to see you explore stuff i might not have even thought about
I know I'm late on this. But I wanted to say that Ive been watching your videos since the pandemic. And they helped me out a lot. I love vintage technology and older games too. And I always enjoyed it when you installed OS versions on any PC. Thank you for helping me during a tough time. I've been watching your videos for about 3 years now and I'm never going to stop.
My home computer when I was a kid had a 3.5" swappable hard drive. My mom had her work operating system on one drive and my brother and I had our hard drive that we installed tons of games on. This project definitely reminds me of that.
I remember the good old days of DOS and MS-DOS, yet I cannot remember the hold setup. The fun days of the many different MS-DOS games to go with the system. Win 3 and 3.1, boy fun days of the past. Window's 98 was one of the very best. Thanks for reminding us all of those hard working but fun days. Will love to get that old new feeling once again I've really enjoyed going through this video with you, much thanks.
Honestly i like your videos a lot because i think you are one of very few people that mentions stuff around windows xp which was my all time favorite system
I've binged almost all of your videos, and I return for your personality and quality content! You could probably make a video about any topic and I'd still be just as interested lol.
i've been subbed to you since sometime around 2016 or so. honestly man i just love seeing you do whatever you enjoy, i love watching whatever escapades you get into and am happy to watch regardless. it's been awesome being around this long and watching you grow and change. you've really come out of your shell since i first started watching and i'm really proud of you
You should be able to run AnitX on that PC. AntiX is a current Linux distro. It's known to run on a potato, in fact your Win98 PC is over minimum spec for AntiX!
Good to know that CF IDE adapters work well for old systems, and thanks for the tip with the industrial cards. I have an ancient PC stashed away that still has ISA slots on the mainboard because I have a Lego Interface A card and a few Lego Technic sets that go along with it. The interface A is an ISA card that lets you control and program Technic models with motors via a DOS-based program. The original software was shipped on 5,25" floppies, so you can probably guess how old it is ;)
Good to know that industrial CF cards always read as fixed disks. A retro PC is something that I was possibly, maybe, eventually getting around to doing. I should probably start sooner rather than later...
Pairing the black 3.5" mounting bracket within the 5.25" mounting bracket really gives the CF reader the feel of an old IBM disk drive in a way. I like the combination of colors and think it would fit well with any sleeper or retro build, paired with black optical drives.
Back in the day, I always booted to a dos prompt and created the folders windows\options\cabs. Then I copied the Win98 folder from the CD to this location on the hard drive, and ran setup from the hard drive. The result was it would never again ask for my Windows 98 CD (whether I installed new hardware or drivers later on) because the cab files were already there.
Occasional watcher here. Loved the wii videos. I'm feeling a bit dirty right now in the retro world. I just went though my really old backup drive and pulled a bunch of dos games. Now playing them in dosbox on my 2009 mac running high sierra. Take away from today CF mounts as HDD and DMA good.
I just watch every of your videos because I find this stuff really interesting! Are you going to put a Windows 98 sticker or something on the CF Card to differentiate it from the others?
@eDoc2020 But the later drivers need to know what controllers already exist on the motherboard. The motherboard chipset drivers are like the foundations of a house.
@@Dave4000 Before installing the chipset driver there will be a "Generic PCI-PCI bridge" in Device Manager for example. This generic driver works fine and Windows can scan for all the devices under it. Installing the chipset driver will change it to "Intel 82801GBM PCIe Port 3" or similar but the actual code used is the exact same.
@@Dave4000 I've never heard of a "correct" order before. Obviously if you have exotic hardware you need storage drivers before you can install but other than that it doesn't make much difference. I go for graphics first because it makes everything else easier.
I'd say leave the color of the front panel. Mismatched colored peripherals was pretty normal even for the time period. People were just getting what was available or on sale and in many cases it wasn't the ideal match.
Yup this thing would be a must have for anyone wanting to use old hardware for old pcs instead of a hard drive. If I ever get a windows 98 pc or xp pc I would use this too.
No matter what video you will Upload in the Future. I see a new MJD Video, i click it and f*ckin enjoy it! I like your calm voice and the overall charm of your content. Please do more Videos like that. And im think i am not alone with the wish to see you live here on RU-vid or Twitch doin nice PC stuff like that in a live stream
My grandfather went back to school in the nineties to learn computer programming as his work was going digital. After that, he would force my less tech savvy grandmother to upgrade her computer fairly often, though transferring data between computers was a pain. Still, I remember their Old win98 E-machine that they had till 98 was taken off life support and then they had an XP machine for 15 years. That's right! My grandfather died in 2013 so he wasn't around to tell my grandmother to upgrade so she ran that win XP machine until it went Kapoot. Win98, 2000 and XP were the foundation of my earliest memories with computers as I was born in 99.
I use a SD card adapter for my Old PC. As of now I swap between 4 SD cards depending on what I want to play on it. One SD with DR-DOS, one with MS-DOS, one with Windows 95 and the last one with Windows 98. I only run OS on these cards, for programs and sw I have partioned a internal Hard Disk into 3 different partions reflecting the OS I am using. Loved seeing other solutions on this
You still have to be careful on which ones you purchase. Transcend supported it natively, so you will see most Retro Tubers use them in their builds. SanDisk Extreme supports both modes, but not all SanDisk models. If you look at CF cards with SM2236 controllers, those will be guaranteed to work.
I have a compact flash reader in one of my old PCs and it's great. I have a drawer full of CF cards and I just plug in what I want. My only issue is I have to use a card slot because there isn't room in a drive bay.
I would have liked to see the process of setting up another OS on 1 of the other cards and then watching you swap between them to see how quick and easy it is.
Eeey it's one of my first computers except it was a 399mhz celeron and you even have the matching cambridge soundworks speakers that came with it... Hope you can still find a PSU for it if and when it shits the bed because iirc the formfactor was proprietary for that mid tower.
I have some of those multi card readers that used to come on late 80,s these work great on newer computers, some are configured for IDE and others are USB.
