Do you have the original 98? I recently got a new machine with Win98 SE(Bug Fix, natch) and one of those wacky Dell "internet" keyboards with the extra dozen buttons along the top. The keyboard is USB and is up and running as soon as the power comes on - *and* it works in safe mode.
How old are your drivers? I'm using a Diamond Viper V770, and haven't had a single blue screen (much less a crash) with Half-Life. I'm running it in OpenGL, to boot.
Right - there's an API for developing games using WinCE - I'm sure it's pretty much there to make ports of PC games a lot less work, I'll be interested to see if Half-Life will work with PC deathmatches - could be fun.
IBM's got the right idea. Apple's projecting within a few years, they'll be regularly shipping 2GhZ Macs - and I can only assume that Intel/AMD will have some barn burners of their own.
The point is that pretty soon, chip speed will be an arbitrary number in most cases, with only the most insanely demanding consumer applications actually showing any performance differences from a 3.5 GhZ chip to a 4.2 GhZ chip. At that point, the only real reason to buy a computer will be to augment your home network or replace that crappy 800 MhZ computer you've had for the last few years:)
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Do you have the original 98? I recently got a new machine with Win98 SE(Bug Fix, natch) and one of those wacky Dell "internet" keyboards with the extra dozen buttons along the top. The keyboard is USB and is up and running as soon as the power comes on - *and* it works in safe mode.
How old are your drivers? I'm using a Diamond Viper V770, and haven't had a single blue screen (much less a crash) with Half-Life. I'm running it in OpenGL, to boot.
Right - there's an API for developing games using WinCE - I'm sure it's pretty much there to make ports of PC games a lot less work, I'll be interested to see if Half-Life will work with PC deathmatches - could be fun.
Just a quick point -
Hawking developed ALS in the 1970's. He wasn't born with any disabilities if I remember correctly.
The point is that pretty soon, chip speed will be an arbitrary number in most cases, with only the most insanely demanding consumer applications actually showing any performance differences from a 3.5 GhZ chip to a 4.2 GhZ chip. At that point, the only real reason to buy a computer will be to augment your home network or replace that crappy 800 MhZ computer you've had for the last few years :)