Is it possible to stop an msdos program without this warning?
Posted on 2023-06-24, 18:09
Is there any way to simply hit the X button, and have it exit without asking it? (on Win 9x)
Re: Help with Windows Explorer + Shell32 not showing icons!
Posted on 2023-06-22, 06:43
Best advice, is to not use it, but If you must its best to start off with clean installs and clean sources. MSFN is a better place to look for information for this. I doubt anyone here uses this outside of experimentation. I've tried it before and found that it bogged my systems down and made them …
Help with Windows Explorer + Shell32 not showing icons!
Posted on 2023-06-22, 03:46
I was using 98se2me, and playing with the files, I realized that explorer and shell32 were from windows nt, not windows ME. So I took the files from a clean install of ME and transplanted them to my 98 (with 98se2me) the problem is that only that side "web page" is displayed, the icons do not appear …
Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?
Posted on 2023-06-19, 23:20
Wow this unlocked my memories of Computer Chronicles even though it wasn't shown in my country, I watched it through youtube in 2008. off topic: I like these "production songs", I don't know the exact name of it, but they are songs for television and commercials, some didn't need a license to be …
Re: If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?
Posted on 2023-06-19, 19:50
But was there any documented specification of which default note/tone? Let me explain the scenario: I'm building a "super " ms-dos with a boot screen, and I want to spruce it up with a boot sound, and I want to be sensible when doing this, I mean, I'm not going to put the boot sound of playstation 1 …
If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?
Posted on 2023-06-18, 19:31
I was wondering, Each version of windows (retro) has a music, or a sound, characteristic, usually the startup sound, but if MS-DOS had one, what would it be like? I think an msdos jingle would be something in OPL. I imagine something like apogee intro and lucas arts intro. I don't think microsoft …
Re: Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?
Posted on 2023-06-18, 13:58
Some very early Windows software came bundled with runtime versions of Windows; a minimal version of windows automatically loaded when the program was launched. I suspect designing something like that around Windows 95 would be rather inefficient and unwieldy. I don't even know that it is possible …
Re: Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?
Posted on 2023-06-18, 04:57
Some very early Windows software came bundled with runtime versions of Windows; a minimal version of windows automatically loaded when the program was launched. I suspect designing something like that around Windows 95 would be rather inefficient and unwieldy. I don't even know that it is possible …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-17, 02:01
Yes, they were doing something years ago, but I don't know their current whereabouts. There was even a guy who created an NTVDM64 for windows 10.
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-16, 17:57
I have a slightly controversial opinion. I believe that a good way would be to enable NT to run what 9x runs. If NTVDM were tweaked to behave a little more like dosbox, that would be great. Although there are already discussions about this and this implementation would be difficult because ntvdm and …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-15, 15:37
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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-15, 15:28
@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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-15, 04:14
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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-15, 04:11
@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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-14, 03:37
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 …
Is Windows 3.1 limited to win32s?
Posted on 2023-06-13, 23:16
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 …
Re: What is the reason for the thin resolution of logo.sys?
Posted on 2023-06-12, 22:29
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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-12, 22:05
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 …
What is the reason for the thin resolution of logo.sys?
Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:16
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 …
Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor
Posted on 2023-06-12, 20:13
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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