Ok, cool, love these replies and suggestions. But these are all things I've done... virtual machine, bulding old systems...Here's the prob... In order to play many of these old games properly, I built a mobo with a pentium III 950 mhz and a 5500 3dfx card. That took care of a portion of the old games, but then again, the graphic card is unable to support any games above let's say the year 2000. So I decided, hey, maybe my current 7800gt could take care of the rest, but no, was wrong, the games older than 4-5 yrs old would simply crash or not even run. So then, I decided, well hey, i'll get a pentium IV with a radeon 9800. Well, that worked. So one day i decided to play old games like doom, duke nukem, need for speed, red baron, descent II. But most of those really old games simply wouldn't play on either system because the cards didn't offer the proper direct x support. Some games I got working here and there, but the original NFS wouldn't play on the 5500 3dfx, and the ones i got to work on virtual machine or dosbox would often crash or have crappy frame rates and graphics. I still have three pc's here.
But 6 months ago to my surprise, my firend's roommate showed me this wicked pc in an antec nine hundred gaming case... with 5 operating systems, capable of playing ANY game out there... All the old games worked perfectly on his LCD at high resolution, people were nuts about his machine. These old games looked like you never saw them before with their full directx supports and the AA/vsync both maxed out on his 6800 ultra.
Whatever system I use, I have my OC's geforce 6800 ultra already which pretty much holds the key to all old games. A lot of these old games need an old windows 9x system or simply won't work or graphic will just suck.
See...like... EMP, good suggestion but this PC you built would play some decent games, but wouldn't play the ones that would need window 98. That's a part i cannot get around.
As for Jackalope... I'll look at reviews of those boards. Especially the ASRock AGP phenom boards. Can you also link some 965 boards that had win98 support? can't find them.
But hey thanks a lot guys! Give me a reply if you can.