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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-26, 03:18

um, this very much seems like the old win95 issue of vcache growing out of control on high RAM machines... http://www.putergeek.com/vcache/ Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware of this back in the day but my PC at the time probably didn't have a "large" amount of RAM. I checked and I initially only …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-25, 12:09

I'm not sure if 95C would help! I was wondering what is different between your install and mine. I'm using a different video card, and possibly different network card. I wonder if memory leaks in drivers are possible and/or common? I also forgot to mention that Process Explorer might be useful - …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-25, 11:12

Ouch! I tried installing Windows 95 4.0.950B and IE 5.01 in a Bochs VM, used IE a little, and didn't see any leak. When I was setting up networking, it prompted to overwrite various system files, so I suppose it's possible in Windows 95 that even though 95B already had fixes for memory leaks, older …

Re: Looking for game like Missile Attack

Posted on 2023-05-25, 08:11

in Windows
Cool! It's confusing, I saw that name Desert Storm Command because Wikipedia says "Sandstorm, also released under the title Desert Storm Command", but the screenshots in your link look quite different so maybe it's an updated version.

Re: Looking for game like Missile Attack

Posted on 2023-05-25, 05:39

in Windows
Is it Sand Storm/Sandstorm ? I found that by searching the PC-SIG Games CD for "storm" ( thread about how I find things in case you want to search any of those places yourself ) so I think it's on that CD if you want it. I played that but it took me a while to remember that it only had "storm" in …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-25, 00:33

I assume you're solving it with more RAM because the leak is relatively slow? How long does it take to start swapping with 64MB? I'm just curious in case I hit it myself. If you could narrow down what causes the leak - maybe installing an older version of IE helps - then it might be easier to figure …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-24, 11:16

Yeah, 64MB should be plenty of RAM for Windows 95! Or at least it was when it came out, I'm not sure how much IE adds to the requirements but it shouldn't be that much more. Have you tried closing IE to see if it frees memory? I suppose it might not help because I assume this is one of those …

Re: Assign Drive Letter to Tape Drive in DOS

Posted on 2023-05-23, 09:12

PC Magazine 18 Sep 1984 p128-34 talks about a combined hard drive and tape drive unit where the tape drive could be accessed like a floppy drive with a drive letter, but the reviewer said that copying a 10KB file when there were already other files on it took about 3 minutes, and creating a single …

Re: NT 3.x and 4.x setup beyond 8GB

Posted on 2023-05-23, 08:49

I think maybe NT3/NT4 setup is limited to 1024 cylinders when validating the destination of the disk so you cannot really choose a partition beyond that limit, even with a disk driver that are not bound by it. I assume it's the updated NTLDR which might enable you to boot from a partition past the …

Re: Assign Drive Letter to Tape Drive in DOS

Posted on 2023-05-23, 03:15

From the Wikipedia page for Linear Tape File System[/url]: Magnetic tape data storage has been used for over 50 years, but typically did not hold file metadata in a form easy to access or modify independent of the file content data. Often external databases were used to maintain file metadata (file …

Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 01:28

Apparently, to run most DOS programs, I have to switch to DOS mode. My MSDOS.SYS file has the DOS DriveSpace drivers disabled. If I boot to DOS mode, how do I temporarily enable these drivers without editing the file twice every time I boot to DOS mode? I don't know much about DriveSpace and I'm a …

Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-05-19, 03:03

There's the classic Neko (Wikipedia link . neozeed's blog has posts about various versions of it , the most recent is about "Neko98" so maybe it works on Windows 98? I think I ran an earlier version on Windows 3.0. I remember there was another, newer program called Felix, I never used it though so …

Re: Network Booting (and some NetWare stuff)

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:14

(Unless vmware can emulate actual 16bit ISA NICs, real hardware is required for network booting Windows 95) Bochs and Qemu both seem to emulate NE2000 ISA cards and also support option ROMs. I think I've used all those functions of both at various times, but not for network booting Windows 95. I …

Re: Windows For Workgroups Networking Issue

Posted on 2023-05-14, 05:36

I think the issue is probably what chinny22 said above. I don't think it's anything to do with network booting - that is something which should happen before anything is even read from your disk, or at worst it's something started by the bootloader on a disk. I'm not aware of any "net boot" command. …

Re: Looking for freeware 2.0 version of QPV

Posted on 2023-05-14, 04:52

in DOS
That would be nice, I remember using QPEG once upon a time. I can't find this version 2.00 either though. https://toogam.com/software/archive/multimed/multimed.htm says "http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=6965&be_page=1&page=1&category=0&order=last_answer&descasc=DESC indicates it …

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