Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 15:37

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by Rikintosh

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Yes. I am learning that Pentium 4 CPUs were available with an x86 instruction set which is compatible with Win98. But they all used netburst. Which is not a good fit for i686 based software organization. As in, you know, wasting a much more advanced system on a simple i686 thread. I wanted to say …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 15:28

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@Rikintosh How do I disable VCACHE? I get the VCACHE protection error as soon as phase one of setup finishes, so I never get the chance to disable it. During the hardware detection and configuration phase, the installation program places VXD drivers inside a vmm32.vxd file. This file is different …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 04:14

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by Rikintosh

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Yes. I am learning that Pentium 4 CPUs were available with an x86 instruction set which is compatible with Win98. But they all used netburst. Which is not a good fit for i686 based software organization. As in, you know, wasting a much more advanced system on a simple i686 thread. I wanted to say …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 04:11

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by Rikintosh

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@VDNKh There is still an unresolved VCACHE error. I get a VCACHE protection error on my Ryzen 5950x system even with PATCHMEM and patcher9x. I haven't found a solution yet. You can simply disable vcache. It's just a cache to optimize performance a bit. It is loaded through VXD, you need to clear …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-14, 03:37

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by Rikintosh

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Hello. Well I decided I am going to run Windows 98 on a Pentium M target. Some Pentium IIIs are 1.0 thousand Khz. And Pentium M goes to over 2 GHz with bus speeds more than 400% that of Pentium III CopperMine's 133 MT/s bus. I want to play Virtua cop and someone on vogons mentions a native Nvidia …

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Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 23:16

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by Rikintosh

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I mean, if someone wants to dabble with some 32-bit app, there's a slight possibility with win32s, but is the only way to get that functionality with 32s, or was there some obscure software that would allow 32-bit more efficiently? In my opinion 32s is very weak, I love 3.1 because it's portable and …

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Re: What is the reason for the thin resolution of logo.sys?

Posted on 2023-06-12, 22:29

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by Rikintosh

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Whatever VGA mode the card is in during the splash screen is 320x400 resolution; even if they wanted to support something else, it would have to be downscaled at runtime making it pointless. By the way, do you know how the animation at the bottom works? iirc it works by reserving a portion of the …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-12, 22:05

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I believe the most viable path is still a hypervisor under modern hardware, because I believe we all just want the 98 for our beloved games, and it's reasonably simple to come up with a list of possible hardware people would want for their games (486 to Pentium 3, 3dfx, ATI and some nvidia graphics …

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What is the reason for the thin resolution of logo.sys?

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:16

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by Rikintosh

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Why 320x400 instead of 640x400? I know the obvious answer would be to save some sort of memory. But I wanted to fundamentally understand why that is, and why a 640x230 image doesn't work? Edit: I found this: "Just like the bootsplash screens in earlier versions of Windows, there was a hard but …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-12, 20:13

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I believe the most viable path is still a hypervisor under modern hardware, because I believe we all just want the 98 for our beloved games, and it's reasonably simple to come up with a list of possible hardware people would want for their games (486 to Pentium 3, 3dfx, ATI and some nvidia graphics …

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Supress/Bypass "new hardware wizard" on Win9x?

Posted on 2023-06-12, 17:33

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by Rikintosh

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I'm creating a custom edition of win9x. I have a folder full of drivers, I want that every time Windows starts on a different computer, it examines this folder and automatically installs the drivers that exist there, without the need for next, next, next... I know that in XP there is a way to create …

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-12, 16:04

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by Rikintosh

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I know there must be a solution to run win98 on dany bridge, because when I was an IT technician, I did maintenance on a CNC cutting machine, which was sandy bridge, but used win98 a pci express card that gave you serial ports that communicated with the machinery. The reason for this is because the …

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 23:19

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by Rikintosh

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Edit: Speaking of FPGAs, they're still short on I/O pins these days. That's why most projects limit themselves to using "castrated" processors with a lower number of I/O pins (8088, 386SX, Pentium Overdrive etc). Supporting ISA bus physically might be more of a challenge then PCIe, maybe. Unless …

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-10, 00:12

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This idea is great, I've always wanted something small and more practical than a huge 28 lbs case. but 386sx is painful. I believe the sweet spot would be something like a 166 mmx (at least for my needs). I once envisioned a PCI-Express card that contained a super socket 7 era chipset, and a …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 21:36

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by Rikintosh

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> I may have a controversial opinion, but I HATE all unofficial win98 packs Not around here. There vogons consensus for quite some time is that the 2004 security update plus usb drivers is the gold win98 standard. Years ago I worked with IT and had one of those CDs localized for Portuguese …

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 21:16

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by Rikintosh

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Well...what about the 80386 field programmable gate array? An FPGA with an 80386 core that needs access to 386/486 chipset ASICs. Add to the ASICs opensource BIOS to serve as software drivers. A well balanced FPGA and 80386 IP could offer a speed up at the gate level. But you basically need to get …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 19:34

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by Rikintosh

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2 main reasons for me. No booting into dos mode. Yes work arounds exist but just like Windows 8 Start Menu, why do I have to do work arounds for issues that didn't exist on the previous version. WinME was proven at the time of release to boot quicker but was actually slower at running things, not …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:14

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by Rikintosh

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A little offtopic: Why NT versions couldn't run dos games? Was the NTVDM bad? I don't understand, how XP (at least revision 2600) can run them, but 2k, or NT4 can't. I remember some games not running on ME either, but running on 98se, and it had nothing to do with the lack of that msdos mode during …

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Re: A noob question: Would recompiling the Win9x files make it faster?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 23:11

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by Rikintosh

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Faster at what? Copying files around. Today Win9x is a shell that people like us use to launch games. The the performance of the OS has only minor bearing on the performance of a game, especially a 3D game, and to the extend Direct3D is part of "Win9X" the latest version of DX for Win98 was …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on 2023-06-08, 22:02

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I've always loved Vista, even though it has high requirements, I think its graphical interface is incredible, and I've always hated people saying "garbage vista, seven wonderful", that's completely stupid, because seven is just a vista service pack 3, but with a theme Modified for marketing reasons. …

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