Who develops on Windows 98?

#1 I was thinking that maybe GG should take a survey with several questions for both developers and people buying games, to better know who developers are targetting and who GG is targetting. Kind like what valve did for hl2.

#2 Primary systems are :
XP2000, 512mb, GeforceFX5200 128mb, XP Pro.
P4 2.6ghz, 512mb, GeforceFX5600 64mb, XP Home, SuSE 9.2.
P4 3ghz, 1gb, GeforceTi4200 128mb, Geforce MX440 64mb, XP Pro.

Secondary :
4x PIII733, 256mb, Compaq EN Intel integrated video. 1x Win98se, 2 x Ubuntu 5.04 (Horny Headghog), 1x FreeBSD.
1 Mac Beige G3 With G4 upgrade, 384mb, standard apple video, OSX.

I have the Visual Architect Edition 2003 on my main system (the 3ghz P4) with updates. Its my only current Windows compiler.

I have not started porting my efforts to either Linux or OSX, so pointers would be appreciated on what tool work best (easiest).

#3 Dual Xeon 2.4, 1GB, Geforce 6600GT, XP Pro.

VS 2003.NET
Direct3D9 + HLSL/CG
Softimage XSI 4.2 Adv

#4 Athlon FX 53
1GB
Geforce 3
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

Visual C++ .NET 2003
DirectX 9c (April Update)
Cinema 4D 6 CE+
Photoshop 6

#5 Windows 2000 SP4
Visual Studio6 SP6
DXSDK9 October 2004 with the necessary libs from the extra package

AMD XP3200+
Gigabyte nForce2 MoBo
Asus GeForce 6800GT (128Mb DDR2)
1Gb (2x512) Corsair 3200 RAM

Not currently having any problems compiling, or running TSE :)

#6 DEV COMP:
Windows XP home
Intel Pentium 4 2.00Ghz
768 RAM
G Force 3 (1.1 Shaders)

Shader Comp:
9100 Dell Inspirion
Windows XP Home
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
1 ghz Ram
Radeon 9700 (2.0 Shaders)

DEV Tools:
Visula Studio 6.0

Art Tools:
Photoshop CS
3d Studio Max 7

#7 WinXP Pro
Athlon 3400+
1GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 5700 128MB Ram

Dev:
Visual Studio 2k3 .NET
Brain Editor

Art:
PSP 6
trueSpace 6 (moving to Max, XSI, or Maya)
Cartography Shop

#8 Main Workstation :
Windows 2k SP4
AMD Athlon XP 2500 (Barton Core) (1.8 Ghz, iirc)
1 Gig DDR333 RAM
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
SB Live! AND onboard nforce2 deluxe audio (real hw acceleration + dolby 5.1 support, not just the AC97 nforce 2 part), nice for compatibilty testing, sucks for home recording/playing of music, but I digress.. ;)

Dev tools : Main IDE : VS 2005 Express Beta, still have VC6 SP5 + Processor Pack handy.

Secondary PC (offline atm) :
Windows 2k SP2 or 3 and a win98 SE install that hasn't been booted in ages ;)
AMD Athlon K75 600 Mhz (iirc)
384 Megs PC100 and PC133 RAM
GeForce 1 32 megs

#9 XP pro
AMD Athlon XP 2500
1GB Ram
GeForce FX5900XT 128MB

VS.net 2003

#10 Main:
WinXP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 2Ghz
1Gb RAM
60Gb HD
Crappy Integrated GFX Card

Second:
WinXP SP2
Intel Celeron 2.4 Ghz
760Mb Ram
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256Mb

Tools:
Vis. Studio 6
Adobe CS
Truespace 5.2 (never use)
Blender 3D
Milkshape
Macromedia Flash MX
And Quark (if it counts :P)

#11 Main System:-
Windows 98 (hoping to set up to dual boot with Linux)
Athlon XP 2000+
512Mb DDR 400
Nvidia FX 5200 AGP 128Mb

Laptop:-
Windows 98 + NT4 dual boot
PII 300
64Mb RAM
Onboard 2D 2Mb Video

2nd deskop currently being rebuilt with PII 400 and whatever other parts I can find lying about.

3rd desktop not owned by me:-
Windows 98
Intel P4 2.4 GHz
1Gb RAM
Onboard ATI Radeon 9100 (using 128Mb system RAM)

Torque Dev:-
MSYS & MinGW
Brain Editor
Milkshape
QuArK

Other Dev:-
BCX (BASIC to C Translator)
LCC-Win32 C Compiler
Dev-C++
Metrowerks CodeWarrior 6
Blitz3D
GLFW
Jens File Editor
Crimson Editor
Evrsoft 1st Page 2000
Apache
PHP
Perl
MySQL

#12 Workstation:
Windows XP Professional
Intel Pentium 4 3.40Ghz
1024 RAM
GeForce 6900 Ultra

Dev Tools:
Visula Studio 6.0

Art Tools:
Photoshop CS
3d Studio Max 5

#13 I was a long time user of Win98SE but reluctantly installed WinME when I couldn't get everything to work properly on a new motherboard after the old one died. The only reason I still use any version of Windows is that most of the games I like to play require it. Everything else I use a computer for could just as well be done with Linux.

I like to use Cygwin for development as much as possible. At some point I'd like to do more with Linux.

#14 WinME is something that will cause you great pain. I would go to XP as soon as you can.

#15 I have a P-3 1GHz that I still have 98 on to make sure TGE still will work on, and another P-3 1 GHz with ME, but my main development machine for now is a P-4 2.4 GHz with XP. To be honest, I never had a problem with ME like so many people claim. I only upgraded to XP so that VS 7 and 3DS Max would run. In fact, I use the ME machine for my LAN server for TGE development. It works great.

#16 Disabling System Restore reduced the great pain of using WinME to an occasional nagging itch to install Linux. :p

#17 Workstation:
Windows XP Professional sp2
Athlon 3200+ 2.0 GHz 64bit
2048 RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra

Dev Tools:
Visual Studio .net 2003

Art Tools:
MilkShape
gameSpace 1.6
Blender 2.37
ZBrush 2
PaintShop 7
DeepPaint

#18 Maybe we should also start a messiest computer/workspace pic contest..... Maybe I should just tidy up and ditch a few comps....

#19 Workstation:
Linux 2.6.11
Intel 3.0 GHz
512 RAM
NVidia GeForce 5200 FX

Dev Tools:
gcc
vim

Art Tools:
Blender
gameSpace (our artist uses it)

#20 Win XP Pro
AMD 1.4G
512MB ram
nVidia geForce FX5500 256
VS 2003