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surely is throught kernel update project. i was also planning to analyze whole windows 9x to make something like 98ME to 2000, but the range of update like this is quite too much.

My computer age is mixed depending on a component. it stands on rather older PIII motherboard with quite new graphics card. i can still upgrade to board which i bought two months ago and win98 will be capable to install. In fact computer designed for win98 can be brand new except graphic cards... Win98 still can provide me everything that i need, and Immolator project is reaching its end very slowly (if i found solution i test it for longer time period). Software and system upgrades are still being developed and that is what matters. Right now i havent found a sw solution (multimedia, work, or whatever) which cannot run on both 9x and 2k based systems. Thats not matter of MS support. Thats matter of community now. Even when i am quite young to remember i was once using 8-bit computer and while there were people able to create new software on that platform it could be useful. There was no official support like with windows. there were just people with same computers - maybe 20 users in whole city - able to create and share software. Now we got the weapon of mass destruction. Internet with at least hundreds of users Vista has one big advantage in multithreading and 64bit support over classical XP, but nobody is currently using this kind of potential or even developing applications of daily usage. Just ask why. When my computer shall not be able to work as i need then i shall reconsider upgrade, but... right now i really dont know which new free software shall i add? there is too much of it...

i have checked it out and you are right. the last version which i have available (from NSP 2.1) is 4.1.1381.7035 dated 7.1.2001. i wonder why have they put that version there with that date... i shall recheck the performance of these files in 3d test. if the old one will be more effective i shall use it.

I am not sure where i have found this driver. i added here new dlls from last version (2006) and it works, but sys files are not able to work with ntkern and mmdevloader. If i use game which has low framerate sound is churming littlebit. that means that driver is working with system, not beyond or over it. if game is slowed and sound go well it means that sound has too high priority and it can consume cpu usage more than other tasks. edit: ok problem solved. the driver installer needs 3 or 5 minuts while it looks frozen but it works. not usable in safe mode - only in real mode.

here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en opengl32.dll seems to be newer than other versions i encountered. glu32.dll is older that in win98se package/nsp1... other files are not interesting. Package dont install itself - its selfextractor. only file you need is opengl32.dll. Seems to be little bit optimized. i have measured one fps + in some tests and few percents overally. sry bad link

Version 2005 does not contain version files 70 and 71. those need to be added manually Version 2005 Sp1 Latest officially supported version. Versin 2008 oficially not supported? Use Winrar right now i am checking the dlls with dependency walker so i am curious... *Done* Incompatible files msvcr90.dll - linked to kernel32.dll "GetSystemWindowsDirectoryW" vcomp90.dll - linked to kernel32.dll "GetConsoleWindow" and "QueueUserWorkItem" rest of files are linked with msvcr90.dll or fully compatible.

it was 0.7.3 stable release. i pickup mostly stable versions because i want test only last releases if possible. Also i dont want message windows to popup. i just want an icon shown in taskbar. i tried some settings but overally miranda was making trouble. minor trouble but when i respond after one hour while still being online... i shall see and test next stable release, but miranda makes sense for me if it shall be able to communicate with webcam - as an conferencing tool.

Report: - Slimbrowser passed all test for required period and causes no errors. - Miranda does not passed the tests. sometimes its icons are frozen and incoming messages are not shown. - Faststone passed. - suitable videoconferencing tool still not found

Demos are not suitable - they contain some bugs which may be not connected with windows 9x.

I am looking for steamless HL2 but i found only crack 1,8Gb large. Also if San Adreas has written on booklet and in "Can you run it" tool "Required Win2k/XP" and the game runs it belongs to rank 2 no matter if it needs kernel ex or not. Also age... i am not sure about it. Still complete list of win9x games is much longer as games which are not compatible and quite much of them are still available. And not only low rated products, but very good games. Add them all

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I have developed easy to use ranking system which will help us to find which games are able to work on win9x. It is quite simple. Tools: Dependency Walker http://www.dependencywalker.com/ "Can You Run it?" web tool http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest Explanation Rank 1: Game is officially able to run on Windows 9x systems and it works Rank 2: Game is oficially unable to run on Windows 9x but with updated system game runs. Edit: add here games which are officially unable to run on win9x but they run even without patching. Rank 3: Game is oficially able to run on Windows 9x but it does not run at all (due any reason).PLEASE ADD LIST OF MISSING DLL EXPORTS AND REASON WHY GAME DIDNT RUN Rank 4: Game is oficially not able to run on Windows 9x and it does not run even when kernelEX is applied. PLEASE ADD LIST OF MISSING DLL EXPORTS AND REASON WHY GAME DIDNT RUN Rank 5: Game or engine developed oficially for Windows 9x, which after years is losing its compatibility during updatin - updating of OS or Game itself.PLEASE ADD LIST OF MISSING DLL EXPORTS AND REASON WHY GAME DIDNT RUN Some of Win9x users have new games. since Kernel and other system files have quite larga number of exports we can focus on those which are really needed to be added. When you come across a game which is unable to run due a missing export or message like "needs winXP to run" run dependency walker, open its main executable (and some other executables) and send with your report all exports which were missing, including files in which the export was missing. KERNEL EX VERSION 0.3.2a Ranking List Class "1": Warcraft II: Battlenet Edition Warcraft III: The Reing of Chaos Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Heroes Of Might and Magic III Heroes Of Might and Magic IV Might And Magic 6 Might And Magic 7 Grand Theft Auto 3 Diablo I Diablo II Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Far Cry 1 Medal of Honor: Allied Assault The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind The Need For Speed III The Need For Speed 5: Porsche Challenge The Need For Speed: Underground 2 Baldur's Gate 1 The Neverhood KKND KKND: Extreme Command and Conquer Command and Conquer: Red Alert Command and Conquer: Tiberium Sun Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 Command and Conquer: Generals Command and Conquer: Renegade Dungeon Keeper Lands Of Lore 2 Lands Of Lore 3 StarCraft StarCraft: Broodwars Freelancer Mafia Unreal Gold Unreal Tournament Unreal II Unreal Tournament 2004 Age of Empires I Age of Empires I: The Rise of Rome Expansion Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion Age of Mythology Rise of Nations Rise of Nations Gold Edition Battlefield 1942 Battlefield 1942: Road to Rome Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII Halo Quake III Quake III: Team Arena Red Faction Half Life Half Life: Team Fortress Classic Half Life: Counter Strike Alien Versus Predator 1 Mortal Kombat 4 NHL98 Dune 2000 Commandos Ubik Civilization II Wing Commander: Secret Ops Spellcross Guildwars Tomb Raider 1 Tomb Raider 2 Tomb Raider 3 Tomb Raider 4 Tomb Raider 5 Tomb Raider 6 The Need for Speed 1 The Need for Speed 2 The Need for Speed 3: Most Wanted The Need for Speed 5: Porsche Challenge The Need for Speed : Underground The Sims 2 + All addition The punisher gothic 1 gothic 2 moto racer 3 gold edition motoGP motoGp2 call of duty + Addition fifa 05 pes 05 bus driver code of honor gta vice city splinter cell 1,2 swat 4 matrix (It is cut) prince of persia Sands of times prince of persia Soul of warrior unreal 2004 wolfenstein enemy territory flatout guilty gear X2 guilty gear isuka (At hold-down xp office) freedom fighters XIII chrome + addition evil dead regeneration suffering ties that bind richard burns rally midnight club 2 alarm cobra nitro xpand rally max payne 1 max payne 2 colin 3,4 bloodrayne bloodrayne 2 Half life 2 Ranking List Class "2" The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion (with trouble) Prey Doom 3 Quake 4 Grand Theft Auto III : San Andreas Alien Arena Torino 2006 Civilization IV Civilization IV Warlords Civilization IV Beyond the sword Alpine Ski Racing 2007 Need For Speed : Most Wanted Heroes of Might and Magic 5 (windows version masq. for install + kernelx + patch 1.41 (i think)) Heroes of Might and Magic 5 - Hammers of Fate (windows version masq. for install + kernelx + patch 2.0) F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate F.E.A.R Alarm Cobra Nitro Alarm Cobra Crash time Enemy Territory: Quake Wars The Mark El Matador Ranking List Class "3" Halflife 2 - Episode One (Reason - SteamEngine) BTAS: Zak McKracken - between time and space (http://www.zak2.org/zak2/cms/front_content.php?idart=33&idcat=1&changelang=2) (wxWidgets bug for windows9x systems, worked around by kernelx) Ranking List Class "4" S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl (Reason - unknown. Bugtracker error? exports are OK) Age of Empires III (GDI32.dll : AddFontMemResourceEx) Red Alert - A path beyond BetaFinal - (error message window not visible, exports ok) Rank 4: Heroes of Might and Magic 5 (with patch >= 1.5 - saving is not working anymore, no folder found) Heroes of Might and Magic 5 - Hammers of Fate (with patch 2.1 - saving is not working anymore, no folder found) Supreme Commander (numerous missing exports) Ranking List Class "5": Ultima Online (Reason - BSOD related to afvxd.vxd on logon) Steam Engine (reason - artifical block, two missing exports) Mechwarriors 2: Mercenaries (requires patch 1.05p or above when used with kernelEX) The Need for Speed 4: High Stakes (Reason - unknown or KernelEX) This list shall be updated, and reasons added.

I have tested Winternals NTFS Reader/Writer for Win98. It uses VXD driver with original NTFS driver from windows 2k and it seems to me as reverse engineered form of communication. NTFS read and write is surely possible via VXD driver. Not only theoretically but also practically. I want to use NTFS filesystem for better video capturing. Therefore i need application at good level and so much reliable as possible. Winternals/Sysinternals is not one of them - disc activity was slightly affected by it, but it shows that this kind of operations are at least possible.

Nono. these drivers are surely not intended for Audigy. i am not sure, but they look tweaked up little bit, but i am sure that they contain file SB0100.DAT which refers to SoundBlaster Live!, and also its internal files (inf) contains sections for Win98. I was able to install "Audigy audio processor" driver on this card without trouble but during play it acts as Emulated driver withoud EAX/other features available. The driver which i use seems to be intended for Windows 2000+ (ctaud2k.sys), while in this case it contains some files which are actually are not Win9x compatible (installer), but the rest (Driver itself and Surround Mixer) are fully compliant with WDM standard. the problem is still to be solved. it is possible that part of the driver is in surround mixer (required dll, or whatever) and the driver shall not work until surround mixer is present. i shall test it. if i shall be sucessul i shall find a link where those files shall be for download.

Icon Tweaker tested - interesting tool, but my system still miss 32bit icons so most of icons used were little bit crushed: SEARCH FOR NTFS (ntfs like) FILESYSTEM Current solution available: WinInternals NTFS Driver for win98 Buggy and not bootable. Examining: NTFS-3G ( look in wikipedia)

I have been examining drivers for SBLive 5.1 for some time now (approx for three months). Normally from this era there are two types of drivers - VXD and WDM. Here i identified THREE different types. 1. VXD Standard VXD driver. Its limitations are based it low DirectSound functionality. If using AC3 filter of FFD audio filter you dont get sound if DirectSound is set as a default audio renderer. Games running with EAX (Oblivion) are running very good. 2. WDM (based on emu10kf.sys - year 2001) Looks like classical WDM driver. DirectSound and additional filters are fully functional. But if you try to run Oblivion you shall see that game is more choppy as before. 3. WDM (based on ctaud2k.sys - year 2004) Audio filtering works, Oblivion works, Creative surround mixer works (asio?). At least the driver which is worth it, but... The installation process of this driver is very bad. Since i bought my SBlive card from my friend (which lost his driver cd) i was unable to run original drivers from the CD, and also partially unable to install any update (due error messages refering that driver is intended for Windows 2000 or higher). I tried manuall instalations. in some cases i was sucessful, in other cases i failed - device was running but no sound was being played. here are the methods i tried: - installation with INF file - failed - no sound present - installation with installer - failed again - installation with instaler in safe mode - sometimes failed sometimes sucess, but installer always freezed. - first uninstallation - during reboot system reffered to missing system.ini - it was in fact present. Some kind of bug - lead to boot fail. after third boot (not second) i booted sucessully while old SB drivers were actually erased (at least). i have installed the drivers from this new package and again no sound. (instaler has hanged again). Then i tried to install surround mixer - still not able connect to the driver. I executed driver installer again and voilá - the driver works - SUCESS symptoms: - if the driver is installed as "Emu 10k1 audio processor (wdm)" surround mixer and sound at all will not work. - if the surround mixer is installed first and later driver it seems to work - if the driver is installed as "Creative SBLive! Series" all works. actually correct name of driver is reffering more to VXD than to WDM, but in DXdiag and in other test it acts as WDM driver based on ctaud2k.sys. Since the installation process of the best driver is very... screwed up, i want to ask somebody here for some help, if he has some experience with this driver.

Immolator is not a standalone project. it stands on many project which are available all over the Internet. Most of them are here, rest is scattered all over. Its purpose is to show how many features can be performed with Windows98 (9x) and also help users to find some very good apps to resolve system errors which they may find. Also all projects and system modifications here are compatible between them, but only if they are installed in correct order. These upgrades and modifications are picked up to improve stability and compatibility while not affecting backward compatibility with other formats or apps. Also i still see here some bugs which i want to have fixed on my system, and as i hope it will provide feedback or inspiration to some wiseguys on this forum also i am planning to add here some tricks how to work some apps better (mostly tv tuner related)... the system which i am trying to build is intended for most widest compatibility and for this reason i pick up only those upgrades which are mostly based on dos7, win9x files and all possible upgrades which has MS released. I dont want to rebuild the system completely, i want to put it to its highest level possible. (therefore i dont use now wll, uberskin or renovatio, since i have experienced incompatibility with some apps) But i will appreciate any help, and i hope my solutions and experience shall be useful for other users/project builders

Since actual Windows installation has one error i decided to make another reinstall to fix USB problem. USB was not functional and there was no reason of this state - only one. It seems that "PNP OSs:ON" must be set in Bios during installation process or usb shall not be functional. quite strange. After this kind of installation i realized that i have one new and functional device - Microsoft TV/Video connection. In previous installations this driver was not active. Also i found one strange difference which is making trouble... http://slayershrine.wz.cz/wdm.gif on the right side is new installation which has correctly loaded WDM driver. On the left side is old installation which has installed older 16bit VFW driver. Althought WDM capturing device is correct it makes some trouble. WDM driver for ATI Rage Theather chip is not able to work as a webcam (i can plug there classic analog cam), because at initialization program shall freeze. for this reason i used 16bit VFW driver which picked up the ATI device and pushed the video stream thru older, but more compatible driver. This solution made ATI Rage Theather usable for me as a video conferencing tool. Right now i am looking for WDM driver which can work better with conferencing apps, but if i shall fail how can be WDM interface uninstalled and VfW installed, or if possible i want to use them both.

since i have here Net2.0 for DX Managed code i shall take a look at that "tootip fix". (net really helps me to improve graphics performance - aproximately 10 percent) Also i have more trouble with tooltips here. if any of them appears video stream is stopped for less than a second... actually there are two fixes. one is on the linke above, for the second one look at erwin riedls page.

Ageia PhysX engine is only one thing which is going to be problem. Also there is OpenAL - sound engine from creative. this engine can be installed sucessfully, but games (Prey) are not able to use it, because they need newer drivers. These changes are painful for all win9x gamers while it cannot be simply fixed with kernelEX.

in localized version of windows (with some other updates) are trouble with video playing. VMR9 not active, some players are unable to fullscreen the video. what about english versions?

Video Conferencing - errors, and problems i have tried some audio conferencing tools - TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. Ventrilo seems to be better for me, but other people online are experiencing some issues with lags. Also videoconferencing. i was able to set TV tuner as main video source. Quite funny sending TV to internet using common tools as skype... since TV tuner is not much suitable (it needs special control panel - tv tuner app, which may conflict with other apps) i was able to run VIVO included with my graphics card (S-Video or Composite signal input). The driver is not much good, but one trick alo worked - i used old 16bit VFW driver interface which is not so conflicting. Video: www.mebeam.com/miranda With video or audio conferencing tools i experienced one same error - they are picking up the "Line IN" by default and ignoring "Mic" input. this is quite bad because "Line in" is used by TV tuner and its input is controlled by this way. Mic can be controlled separately. In many cases those apps do not offer possibility to chage this setting. one of the solutions is to swap the channels - input microphone to "line in" and capture tvtuner sound from "mic". this can be done only because my old TV tuner has outer sound lineout. in other cases it can mess up the sound.

2000 and XP are not immune. even vista is vulnerable.

i have installed Renovatio on my localised system. it works - system is starting, and after all i have full one language system. before that i had three languages in one system now i have only one language - english. if somebody do this with localized system he will boot safely, but all directories with links and control panels will be empty. can be fixed manualy. Skinning engine here is more likely able to crash if i spam too many windows. Also Video Mixing Renderer has vanished from all settings. i cannot view videos using this renderer - probably caused by quarz.dll

well. miranda does not work at all. it means that if i run it nothing happens. *fixed* i am going to test it. Progress: SmartBrowser - First browser that has passed all my requirements at all. i hope it will help to fix all errors that plagued IE. Miranda - ICQ works, but without plugins i cannot see if the videoconferencing is possible. i shall wait for a while. GOM - MPC, with FDDfilters do all what i want so i am not going to replace it. Faststone - freeware, which looks and works like famous ACDSEE. i can recomend it, but it cannot replace Adobe Photoshop...