/vr/ - Retro Games

If I wanted to build a PC strictly for mid to late 90's games, what sort of components should I look for? I'm a bit new to this sort of scene and there's a lot to take in. I'd mostly be looking to play later dos games and stuff up to like Starcraft. Does windows 98 still have DOS? Or should I stick to 95?

>>5053386
Win98 may be a retro OS by the rules, but it supports hardware that isn't. Oh, whatever. Should be fine.
If by awesome you mean as fast as possible, you may want to go for 2004/2005 hardware with Windows 98. No later.
CPU: any socket 775 Pentium 4 without Hyper Threading
GPU: Geforce 6800, Radeon X800, maximum 256 mb VRAM (there are later cards that run on Win 98 drivers, but not very reliably)
Ram: 1 gigabyte (needs some tweaking, 2 gig may be possible, but that's a frigging hassle)