DosFreak

A couple of years ago I compiled Mesa 7.5.1 for Windows 95+ which supports OpenGL 2.1 I've attached it here until I upload it to vogonsdrivers: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=614916#p614916

You should really try to get the program working on your host if at all possible, software acceleration is going to be slow. Go here for binaries: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/wrappers/files/OpenGL/GDI/Mesa/ v6.5 should work on 9x. When these files were tested KernelEx wasn't a thing so it's possible newer versions may work with that. try v7.8.2 or v10.0.02 these work with 2000 so try them with KernelEX Try v17.0.0 this works with XP so try with KernelEX v19.3.1 for Vista but doubtful that will work with KernelEX

Don't know about latest but this should get you started: 7-zip 7z920.exe Adobe Acrobat 6.06 Alcohol Alcohol52_trial_1_9_5_3105 Alcohol120_trial_1_9_5_3105 Alcohol120_retail_1_9_5_3105 Audacity 1.2.6 Avast setupeng1368 Bochs 2.3.7 CCleaner ccsetup213720 Clamwin Legacy 0.97 Cool PDF Reader 3.0.0.128 Conectix Virtual PC v5.2 Daemon Tools 3.47 DOSBox 0.74-3 DOSBox SVN (When compiled with MinGW) ffdshow ffdshow_rev3013_20090620_clsid Flash v7 install_flash_player_7 install_flash_player_7_ax FireFox v3.6.28 Roytam1 Foxit foxit13b1621 Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1 6 SP1 GIMP gimp-2.2.17-i586-setup gtk+-2.6.10-20050823-setup imdisk imdiskinst_1.6.0 ImgBurn SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0 K-Meleon K-Meleon1.5.4en-US K-lite Codec Pack klmcodec170 Links Links-2.5-install MagicDisk setup_magicdisc105 Miranda v0.10.80 NetScape netscape71_sd701 OpenOffice 2.01 Opera v1063 v1070 Build 9071 (Modified) Supports TLS 1.2 PCem PCemV0.41a Qemu Manager v7.0 Qemu Manager v7.0 (QEMU 0.11.1) on 9x/NT4/2000 1. Must have at least IE5 installed! 2. Install Qemu Manager. 2. Execute Qemu Manager. If you receive an error about wininet.dll then you do not have IE5+ installed. 3. Open Qemu.exe with the Hexedit program. 4. Replace "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname". 5. Start Qemu Manager! 6. When you create a VM in the VM options change "Main Display" to "QEMU Windows", otherwise your VM will not load. Qemu 14.0 1. Download Qemu v14 http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=1214 2. Extract contents of .zip. 3. Download Hexedit. 4. Open up all executables with hexedit 5. Replace all instances of "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname". (Zero out any extra characters). 6. Done! QtWeb 3.4.8 Retrozilla ScummVM v2.1.0 SeaMonkey95 SoftPerfect Personal Firewall Thunderbird Thunderbird Setup 2.0.0.24 VDMSound v2.1.0 VideoLan vlc-0.8.6e-win32 Virtual CloneDrive SetupVirtualCloneDrive5450 Vmware Workstation VMware-workstation-4.5.3-19414 Windows Media Player v6.4 v7 MP7195NT Windirstat windirstat1_1_2_setup Windows Remote Desktop v5 client MSRDPCLI WinSCP winscp419setup

If you are crashing with 7B when installing from USB then try installing from CD. I banged my head against this for hours with my iodd external drive. I would also verify that 2000 installs when using IDE as well. If good then install the AHCI drivers and switch to SATA in the BIOS or integrate the 7.6 drivers (with changes for your controller as needed) to an ISO and install.

Blackwingcat implements Vista functions as well so don't make that assumption. Try it and see. If it doesn't work let him know.

Depends on what tools they use. Original mingw and mingw-w64 compile working executables for 95+ and NT 3.50+ without any extra hoop jumping except for using dwarf and win32 threads. Visual Studio 2017 work for 98+ and NT4+ with some workarounds. For web stuff you shouldn't have javascript run anyway except when needed since other than Roytam1 browsers the browsers are not being patched. You'd think they would target as many systems as possible but in practice in most cases they are taking advantage of a specific vulnerability. If you were too write malware you would want it to hit as many boxes as possible so use the same APIs that exist in all versions of Windows but mostly they are lazy so usually they end up only working on the most popular operating systems. Security through obscurity shouldn't be used since there are exploit packages that can be bought or acquired with all the vulnerabilities that currently exist.

You run the proxy on an XP or above host and then point your old machines to to it. The modified Firefox browsers I posted were intended for your Qemu test, not on host Windows 98. They can be found here: https://o.rths.ml/gpc/files1.rt/home.html For 2000 with BlackWingCat Extended Kernel Seamonkey 2.39 and 2.49.5 works

Well nothing is impossible, It may be worth asking Roytam if he'd be interested and if so what amount of money he'd expect for the amount of effort. The last Seamonkey I tested with regular Windows 98 was SeaMonkey 95 and with Kernelex was SeaMonkey v2.8 but that was awhile back. Not sure if the KernelEx updates allowed newer versions to work or not. The newer builds that require SSE2 would likely just need to be recompiled. Have you tried WebOne proxy? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=67165

Not sure if you consider this "vanilla" or not but you can use the roytam1 builds of Firefox for systems without SSE or without SSE2. Thse are the ones I last tested on XP: firefox-45.9.19-20200104-ddcd778f4-win32-ia32 firefox-45.9.19-20200104-ddcd778f4-win32-sse

IIRC, vmware and virtualbox use emulated video cards created specifically for those virtualization products. Any DOS VESA TSR you find it likely looking for a video card created during the time period it was created. Don't use vmware and virtualbox for DOS games except for edge cases like if your computer is a POS, the game doesn't have a windows or linux port, the game runs too slow in DOSBox or pcem.

I last tested those Qemu versions before Kernelex was a thing so it's possible kernelex will work for those. Bochs It's possible for those versions I tested with Kernelex. If you don't want to use Kernelex you can try Bochs 2.3.7. Bochs 2.0 (Windows 95) Bochs 2.3.7 (Windows 95B) Bochs 2.6.6 (Windows 98+) Kernelex Bochs 2.6.9 (Windows 98+) Kernelex QEMU 14 1. Download Qemu v15 http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=1214 2. Extract contents of .zip. 3. Download Hexedit. 4. Open up all executables with hexedit 5. Replace all instances of "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname". (Zero out any extra characters). 6. Done! Qemu Manager v7.0 (QEMU 0.11.1 (Accelerated) 1. Must have at least IE5 installed! 2. Install Qemu Manager. 2. Execute Qemu Manager. If you receive an error about wininet.dll then you do not have IE5+ installed. 3. Open Qemu.exe with the Hexedit program. 4. Replace "freeaddrinfo", "getaddrinfo", and "getnameinfo" with "gethostname". 5. Start Qemu Manager! 6. When you create a VM in the VM options change "Main Display" to "QEMU Windows", otherwise your VM will not load. Unknown if the above changes break network functionality so try kernelex first. Qemu 0.15.0 - Use Kernelex (No acceleration)

For virtualization\emulation on 9x: DOSBox 0.74-3 Connectix Virtual PC 5.1 VMware-workstation-4.5.3-19414 Bochs 2.6.9 (SSE2) Bochs 2.6.6 (SSE) Qemu Manager v7.0 (QEMU 0.11.1) (Accelerated) Qemu 14 (Not Accelerated) I wouldn't recommend web browsing in a guest on a 9x host performance is horrible. Use a Linux dual-boot or livecd for a more modern browser and use retrozilla on 9x if you don't want to use kernelex.

Because those are DOS protected mode and real mode games and the virtualbox dynamic recompilation as well as audio emulation are likely s*** for running those games. Use ports for those games, DOSBox or pcem in that order. Do not use virtualization programs for DOS games except for edge cases.

When running 9x in Vmware or Virtualbox you don't have a GPU just a video card as such you don't need much RAM. Even 16mb is overkill unless you are using an extremly high resolution at 32bit color.

As far as using DOSBox is concerned it's not a VM it's a PC emulator specifically for PC games and currently it's officially supported on 95/NT4 and above with DOSBox 0.74-3. If you are running 9x on a period correct box then I'd keep it around for those DOS games that still have issues. If you are running 9x on a i7 and want to play DOS games then you definetly need it. Now if you were referring to the command prompt in Windows 9x then yes that is a Virtual Machine and depending on the game it may work fine for you. If you want OPL3 you can try this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57951 If you want MT32 you can try the 9x ver of MUNT: https://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/files/munt/SNAPSHOTS/

For a Core duo Vmware Workstation or Player v12.5.9 is the last release you can use. As of Vmware 14 VT-X is required and binary translation is no longer offered. With 4gb of ram you aren't going to be doing much with virtualization software so good think you're only trying to run 9x. Note that with 9x under Vmware there will be no 3D acceleration unless you use 3rd party tools like Swiftshader or Mesa3D which will be slow. For 3D acceleration in 9x you would use pcem but your processor is too slow and even for 2D it's too slow but you might be able to do something with 3.x or 95. https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ You might need to run HLT software like RAIN on 9x to reduce cpu usage as well.

Never had that error message. Vmware 6.5.5 is the last ver to run on Windows 2000 vanilla. Vmware 7.1.3 with Blackwingcat files VMWare Workstation v7.1.3 (This was from back in 2011 so not sure what the latest ver of Vmware is now with extended core) 1. Installers errors out on not being compatible with Windows 2000. 2. Use FCWIN2k from the KDW wrapper to fake Windows XP SP3 to begin the install. 3. When the install gets to a dialog window DO NOT CLICK THROUGH. 4. Go to the TEMP directory of your profile. 5. Make a copy of the vmware folder. 6. Close vmware setup and fcwin2k. 7. Make a backup copy of "vmware workstation.msi" 8. Modify vmware player.msi with Orca and remove the LaunchCondition. 9. Executing vnetlib.exe in installation folder you will receive the following error: "The procedure entry point GetInheritanceSourceW could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll" YOU MUST PERFORM STEP #10 OTHERWISE VMWARE WORKSTATION WILL NOT INSTALL!! 10. Install the KDW wrapper and install advapi32.dll 11. Install Vmware Workstation. 12. During install you may receive the following errors: --------------------------- vmnat.exe - Entry Point Not Found --------------------------- The procedure entry point CancelIPChangeNotify could not be located in the dynamic link library IPHLPAPI.DLL. --------------------------- vmware-authd.exe - Entry Point Not Found --------------------------- The procedure entry point GetProcessImageFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library PSAPI.DLL. Just press OK to contiune. (We will fix these errors later) 13. After install is done reboot. 14. Download vm313a.zip from Blackwingcat. 15. Modify the script to reflect changes for vmware workstation instead of player. 16. Run the script and then reboot. 17. Vmware Workstation should now work.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=68600&p=779629#p779629 This seems to work pretty well in a VM. There seems to be a mouse input error in Windows 2000 (left mouse click to fire keeps firing) in a VM not sure if a Vmware tools issue or an SDL2 issue with blackwingcat extended core and the usual issue with relative\absolute mouse control issues with VMs. Possibly mouse issue in 98. Mouse works in game menus but not in game. Need to verify not a vmware issue. Going to test the above on a physical machine eventually.

For testing you can try masking the feature bit with Vmware. This was helpfully when troubleshooting mingw compiled programs that had issues running on certains cpus. I haven't tested with Windows updates yet. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=55706&start=20#p767756

Is there any reason you want VS2010 on 2000? VS2008 works and can compile for NT3.51-2000. (Use with legacyextender for NT3.51-95-98-NT4) VS 2019 can compile for XP. If you do get VS2010 working on Windows 2000 there is no guarantee the compiled executable will work since VS2010 does not support 2000. (Obviously using the Blackwingcat Kernel works around this). https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/win2kgaming/visual-studio-2008-on-windows-2000-t515.html For my projects where I use VS I use VS2008 for NT3.51-2000 and VS2019 for XP but I use my host Windows 10 for compiling.

If you want to try something slightly newer with TLS 1.2 support here is Opera 10.70 Build 9071: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=12102&start=20#p730673 As roytam1 mentioned above his QtWeb 3.8.4 build works great as well.

Don't know if this is helpful or not but according to this http://wp.xin.at/archives/4479 you can compile OpenSSL to not rely on Windows bcrypt or CryptAPI using the no-engine switch

AES-GCM, 256 bit keys, TLS 1.2 Was the TLS 1.2 update ever released for 2003?

If I use ProxHTTPSProxyMII with the SSL passthru it appears to work. Without the proxy I get the same error as you do. Tested on Windows 2000. When I enter this URL in IE: http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us The proxy shows: [10:54] 000 [D] SSL Pass-Thru: https://www.update.microsoft.com:443/ [10:54] 000 [D] SSL Pass-Thru: https://www.update.microsoft.com:443/

I have no interest in that game at all but it was interesting how they decided people were using DX9 to get rid of shadows versus people using DX9 because that's all their video card was capable of....unless they are going to provide DX9 feature level support with DX11 so people with DX9 cards can still play the game. They probably aren't though since people with DX9 cards are poor and shouldn't be playing games on old hardware. (Usual Steam forum user answer). heh. Wonder if Linux users care about this since ProtonDB recommends disabling DX11.