BenoitRen

So you think it's never going to happen because the official builds don't work on Win9x? My, aren't you smart. (/sarcasm)

Please tell me more. (even though my 3D card works great as it is now)

You mean you got the patches installed, right? Then you need drivers. Here's a good start.

"Mijzelf", read the post above yours.

Neither could you with Visual Studio 2005. You had to recompile the actual C++ runtime!

Visual Studio 2005 was already the end for targeting Windows 95, actually. Compiled programs would look for an unsupported API because of the runtime. You could recompile it to not do this, though.

Not true. You still had to install the two USB support packages on OSR 2.5.

Ah, I see. I believe that this is not exclusive to DOS file names. When I create a folder in Windows of which the file name is entirely uppercase, Windows does the same thing to it.

What's this "pretty" file names thing that's supposedly in Win95? The feature to have optional transparent labels is cool, even though I don't have a need for it.

Win95 C? Keep this page in mind.

Slowdown? Don't you mean consumption of resources? There is a fix for that.

If speed is really a concern, you should not have installed the Active Desktop update. It's a real hog, and integrates IE. It's possible to modify executables to use the Active Desktop SHELL32.DLL instead of the usual one if needed.

Don't do it! The Active Desktop 'update' will integrate IE4 into Windows 95 and slow down your PC. Convert the JPG files to BMP instead.

It will complain that it doesn't have enough memory to initialise Windows.

Those are the statistics of one sole website. Hardly a good measurement for OS usage.

All I can say is that this is weird. WinXP is a WinNT OS. I have no idea why your game is being difficult. Never mind that before WinXP, there were no games for WinNT OSs.

And all this time I thought it was an IE shell. Thanks for the link, it sounds neat. Do remember that the core of Firefox is Gecko. K-Meleon and SeaMonkey (browser only) will give mostly the same experience webpage-wise, as they use the same core. Even not K-Meleon? Even on my Pentium II 233 Mhz it starts up pretty quickly.

What the hell are you talking about? I'm so sorry I was defending Win98, which is what this entire forum is mostly about. Sheesh. Features considered standard these days? Eh, people take anything for granted these days. I wouldn't follow the sheep. Those same sheep that fall for M$' lies every time and continue to buy software that is more than a generation behind when it comes to actual programming techniques and optimisation. People will accept anything, apparantly.

IE is crap. Its rendering engine is ancient and wildly non-standards compliant. It's also quite buggy. Just because you will run it on a write-protected area does not mean security is unimportant. Ever heard of phishing, impersonation, etc.? I recommend K-Meleon. It's fast, its interface is native, and it uses Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.

You want stone age? Get a computer with an early version of DOS. That's stone age.

No wonder you're not getting any sound. IRQ 5 is being claimed by Intel SMBus Controller, you Ethernet card, and your sound card all at once. I'd recommend leaving the sound card at IRQ 5 for DOS compatibility, and moving the network card to a free IRQ.

Why bother? Dump IE6 already! It's a steaming pile of s***. Use a web browser that didn't get released more than half a decade ago and actually renders the web correctly!

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like MikeyHunt has triggered the "random black boxes on really long pages" bug in Gecko-based browsers!

That could work for a couple updates, yeah. Though I don't think it would work for big things like the DCOM95 1.3 package.

What for? You're not caving in to the newest flashy and fancy stuff, are you?