Starcraft was a late comer to the PC gaming world. Most people think of it as an early game. Truth is I remember trying to play Diablo on a 400mhz windows machine and it all but dieing. I never found a PC to play Starcraft or Diablo correctly till I got a 1ghz machine. Not surprising as much memory as those games need that they don't do well.

BTW: Windows XP with pci turned on will run a WHOLE lot faster than windows98 using ISA card emulation. I installed both. Follow my instructions at the top of this thread for XP and it should perform better. If you want, I can put up an ftp server and just let you download my setup. It is not that awefully big. Maybe 5GB.