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Th3_uN1Qu3

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  1. MPlayer with its very powerful frontend SMPlayer. Unfortunately it wouldn't seek through videos, at least on my machine. Maybe you'll be a bit luckier.
  2. Thanks Tihiy, that worked perfectly. I didn't know Uberskin could do it, that's why i posted a separate topic. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help, and i'll use search next time...
  3. Tried that "Disappear" thingy, made my icon backgrounds gray not transparent. And i don't want to bother with Stardock software, as their latest stuff isn't compatible with 9x/Me anyway. I remember MicroAngelo from my win9x days when i was like 8 or 9, that used to work. I'll give it a spin again, thanks.
  4. I have just installed Windows ME as 98SE and my laptop didn't quite get along and i don't want to go back to XP on this thing. I have Uberskin and it skins the bars and buttons really nicely, but the icons still have those solid backgrounds. RP7 could make icon background transparent in 98SE, so any tips on how could i get this done in ME?
  5. It's an OEM, so there's not much chance of succeding. I would advise you not to upgrade the BIOS as it most likely won't make any difference and you may screw up your computer for good. You can request a patch for large HDDs over at Wim's BIOS forums, but i don't know if they do OEM BIOSes too. Worth a try anyway. If not, get yourself a PCI controller card.
  6. Yes, that's the first thing i turn on after i install 9x. Anyway, just finished tweaking up ME and all is fine and dandy, seems like 98 and my laptop just didn't like each other. Going to install your Uberskin now.
  7. Heh... Wish it was all over. As soon as i started utorrent, bam. Stutters and skips. Again. Seems to have to do with multiple concurrent connections, and the higher the TCP RWIN value, the worse the stutters are. Unfortunately no matter how low i set it, the skips still occur. Toshiba sucks!!! Going to install ME and see if that works. I sure hope it does, as i don't have a way to install a tweaked version of XP (no CD-ROM), and a full-blown one is just too slow.
  8. I expect it to work. Period. That's why i'm going strong on TinyXP Platinum 2 on my main rig (C2D E6550 @ 3.73GHz, 2GB RAM, 8600GT, 320GB) and 98SE with all the blings and whistles of RP7 on my laptop (PIII @ 933, 512 RAM, 16MB video, 30GB), and 98SE + RP7 looks just like vista without aero, aero that vista turns off whenever it likes anyway. Hell, and if you like transparency, WindowBlinds is better in getting bling on any version of windoze than aero will ever be on vista. Vista = fail. That's why Vienna is just around the corner. If you really want to try vista, get TinyVista. Fits on a single CD with all the stuff you need, and also has stuff that M$ forgot to include. And forget about SP1. I have a dual-boot between TinyXP and TinyVista on my main rig, but it's set to boot in XP and it runs in XP 99% of the time. Even with all the tweaks that have been done in TinyVista to improve performance, i just couldn't get used to its smoothness - it's so smooth that it's laggy. I like my old "choppy" windows OS better.
  9. In big bold caps: HELL YEAH!!!!!!! I decided to reinstall the whole thing today, taking care to dump everything else in first and the network drivers last. So here i went. Clean install of 98SE -> SP 3.0 Beta -> DX9.0c -> IE6 SP1 -> 98SE2ME -> video, audio, blah blah, network and Toshiba utilities last -> RP7 -> KernelEx. Runs like a dream. Downloaded Opera with 2MB/s from a local server while playing music with QMP (Quintessential Media Player), no stutter in anything. Yay!!!!! Windows 98 sure is one temperamental OS. Anyway, i'm so glad it works now. Music and gaming, here i go!!!
  10. Of course there is. My main rig is an E6550 clocked at 3.73GHz with an 8600GT. Running TinyXP Platinum 2 and flying, no way i'd let vista touch that. The only reason i run XP is because of the 4GB limit of FAT32, as i'm sure the drivers and stuff can be fixed. Read above. I had been running Puppy Linux for a while, and it's a good example of Linux from scratch. I only dropped it coz the trident video driver in linux hated my lappy's video chip. I made the switch to XP only when SP1 was out already, i stuck with 98 till then. Of course it would be great to get an open-source team working on it, but most of them are busy running Linux. And remember that the 98 code is still property of M$, and we'd need a way around this if we want to delve into its core. ReactOS is a nice attempt, but they try to build a NT-compatible OS, and i have certain stuff that does not run properly on NT. So 98 for life! Now if only i could fix that network card priority over the PCI bus so it doesn't make my whole system stutter anymore... If i remember right, it was fine first time i installed 98SE, after a program messed it up i had to reinstall and it came with this bug... Hmmm. There's this NATO summit going on here so school's out this week, so i might just get to reinstalling 98 again. But i'm getting off-topic already, ending this post here.
  11. Well, it would be better but most likely it ain't happening. Read on if you wish. Off topic: I am a moderator of the DiGiTALZoNE board, which focuses on non-steam games. I've been there for more than two years, doing my job and getting from n00b to member to elite to anti-spam moderator and finally to global moderator. I've seen the community go through many changes, going down and being brought back again, and there's one thing i have to say about all this. Two years ago that place was much better. We haven't had any proper releases for more than an year, and i found out that lately we are just ripping off others' work and just doing installers. We need a crew, as the old crew who started the board left about an year and a half ago, and current crew members are either busy all the time or behave like stupid selfish kids. I asked the same thing: that we should be united, get some experienced coders in the crew and roll some proper game releases out so we don't get a million complaints and share spam by other members (at one point there were 10 versions of CS 1.6 around till i went and deleted all but the 2 official ones), and got a lot of input, almost all of it positive, but in the end only i and a couple more guys from the moderating team still care about the idea. We're gonna start to learn coding so we can make our own game patches, but this'll take a while, and we still need a few more people to help us. See, here you got a great forum, moderated by a responsible team. You got talented coders working on some great features for older versions of 'doze. You even got someone who tries to package all this stuff together. What more could you want? It ain't fun having everything for free, as there's always the challenge of doing something yourself. I'm not saying it wouldn't be better if those people coding various features would form a team, but keep in mind it could've been worse than it is. Back on topic: Running windoze 98 on current hardware is for people that know what they are doing. It is for those who have experienced the OS when it first came out, and that still have their licensed CDs. It is for people that liked it, and want it back and better. It is for people who are still calibrating their CRTs (that's what i was doing right now with my 17 inch one). It is for people who still play with Voodoo cards. It is for people who still have the old Soundblasters, coz they can run in DOS and got a hardware midi synth that sounds spectacular compared to M$'s bundled software set. It is for people who still know what midi is. It is for people who still game in pure DOS. It is for those who knows what that "something" means. It is for those who still got that feeling. I for one still have both 95 OSR2 and 98SE original discs, and i remember when i got my first computer that i was messing 95 up like every month and crying for my dad to come and fix it. I watched him do it once, twice, three times, then i learned how to install it myself. I was 7 back then and now i'm (almost) 17, and now i have more computer knowledge than my dad. Whereas you can't just revert someone who was born with the Aero interface in front of his eyes to this. Even if it looks similar. Even if it'll run everything that vista runs. There are people who like vista coz it's new, regardless if their computer can run 10x faster with a different OS. There are people that don't care. It's best to just let everybody do their thing and keep a small and warm community here, with everything free of charge but having to do a tweak or two to get it right, rather than making it simpler and getting the forum full of spammers just so our work is more widespread. Rather than getting to selling work based on code which isn't even legally ours. Rather that signing an agreement with M$ so we can sell our stuff legally while they get the money. I know what i am saying as i've been all through it on the DZ board (see above), and i wouldn't like that happening here. All the best and viva la 98.
  12. 2x 512 in dual channel will give you better performance since it's a hardware thing, it doesn't depend on the OS at all. And if it's one or two sticks windoze will not care, therefore the workaround will still be needed.
  13. UAA is only for vista. To the OP: Make sure you have downloaded the right drivers. ftp://202.65.194.211/pc/audio/WDM_R189.exe
  14. (in Romanian) E 30 lei un card de 1GB... Am eu unul de 128MB pe care ti l'as da moka, poate rezolvam noi cumva.
  15. Oh man, you got one of those s***ty phones too? My advice would be not to bother with it, as it doesn't even support MP3. And there's no interesting things that you can do by connecting the phone to the computer, believe me, i did it. Just drop a MicroSD card in it and it'll get recognized as a regular removable drive in win9x if you have the USB drivers. If you really want music on it, use IMA ADPCM format, 44kHz, 4 bit, stereo. It's just a bit larger than 320kbps MP3 with similar quality. It actually sounds very good if you use quality earphones on the phone. But, seriously, do you want to convert all your music to wavs? I wouldn't.
  16. I had the drivers downloaded from Toshiba's site and updated to the latest version from Intel's site. No change. I've done my tweaking with CableNut a while ago, but it was stuttering before i did that, it didn't affect my computer in any negative way. PS. The chip i have running at 292MHz is a 200MHz MMX too. Sitting tight under a modded Socket A cooler, with 96MB worth of SIMMs running rock solid at settings that shouldn't be possible, and a 13 gig Seagate HDD bringing the heat. Literally. B) And be sure i won't throw the laptop without announcing first, as it might hit something pricey on the way.
  17. Why does it have to be Flash? That thing would kill a P1, and some people running 98 still use one of those. I don't think it's too light on your K6 either.
  18. I know that i won't lose the theme forever, but i do lose it if i want to keep those fonts. Anyway, you just saved my a**. Checking the "Force LAMESkin to use compatible skinning mode" option fixed the problem! Thought you meant the KernelEx compatibility settings, just now i've noticed that RP7 itself has some too. Thanks again!
  19. For me Opera dl'ing from Sourceforge and uTorrent suffice. I never was a big fan of download managers. And i can just set up a FTP server on my other computer and access it via LAN, that is sure to cause some serious network usage. My laptop's got a 933MHz PIII Tualatin, and it shouldn't have any problems. I'm 100% sure it's not the CPU, as its usage sits at 20% or less when i'm downloading. It's the network card running with high priority and clogging the PCI bus (stupid toshiba made everything share IRQ 11). But i found no way to change NIC priority till now, and the IRQs are hardwired. I also have an overclocked Pentium-MMX on an Asus board, running at the amazing speed of 292MHz stable. It's running 98SE too (boots it in 30 seconds B)), and has no problems transferring at high speeds. It has a 3Com card though, but i thought intel's NICs were better than 3Com's... With the amount of work i put in this thing i can't just ditch it, but if i do, i'll send it flying your way.
  20. The themes' font gets set to Western, and i can switch them back to CE but then it's bye bye colorful theme. And the text in the aforementioned programs is still messed up. I don't see a option to restore my fonts in 98SE2ME options, but right now i don't care as i'm confronted with much more serious hardware issues. I hate toshiba!!!! I think i'm going to throw this laptop out the window as it already wasted a lot more of my time fixing it rather than using it. More details here.
  21. Okay so i have a toshi portege 4010 laptop. Google for specs, i'm too p***ed to type them all in again. It has an intel-85529 based LAN adapter, using latest drivers off intel's website. Problem is as follows: When download speeds exceed 100-200KB/s, the whole system starts stuttering. The display (mouse cursor, windows), the audio, the disk accesses, EVERYTHING. I can't listen to music while doing your average transfer as it'll pause every few seconds. I can't even type a **** post properly as the text input pauses too. The problem didn't exist in XP, so there must be something wrong with the network configuration in 98SE. I have downloaded the intel utilities and set everything for the NIC to use as little resources as possible -> no change, just slower network speeds. I have set PCI latencies with PowerStrip and it seems to make zero difference. At one point i thought it worked as i was downloading with 400KB/sec from a http server, and having my torrent client uploading with 200KB/sec at the same time, with everything running smoothly. But a few minutes later the problem was back and it seems it's here to stay. Could the toshiba bios be resetting the latencies after a while? By default everything was set to 64 and the video chip to 128, and it had the same settings in XP without causing any issues. I'm about to throw this thing out the window. Anyway this goes, i swear i won't buy a toshiba product again. This notebook is kinda old indeed, and i didn't buy it new, but it had XP when i bought it and that worked. And honestly, when it cooperates it's a great little piece of hardware, but i find myself spending much more time fixing it rather than actually using it. So is there any hope except going back to XP? Also, i can't install a modified version of XP as those don't have wininit.exe, and DOS-based install is the only way i can put an os on this thing, as it doesn't have a CD drive. And full-blown XP was just too slow for my taste, even with a lot of tweaks to it. I had Linux on it. The video driver didn't quite cooperate. I have 98SE now. Nothing seems to cooperate. Edit: Just fooling around in PowerStrip, i set video chip latency to 160, audio to 128 and everything else to 48. It just works... Just downloaded with 600KB/sec from Sourceforge and sound/video didn't exhibit a single glitch. Fired up my torrent client now but there's next to no activity going on with seeding, so i'll see tomorrow. I sure hope this lasts more than a few minutes. Later edit: Opened a big web page and *pause*. Again. Now there was another pause even though i was downloading at low speed. I'm seriously going to toss this piece of garbage out the window. Oh yeah - wondering why there was no sound anymore - my music player just froze. ****. And it doesn't seem to want to work anymore. I think i'm going to sleep.
  22. Only the regional settings are set to Romanian, every bit of the OS is in english. I'll try switching them and see what happens, but thing is that those programs work perfectly in another computer running a "clean" version of windoze 98, and only exhibit themselves on my laptop with 98SE2ME installed. Or maybe it's RP7 at fault? I'll make a backup and reinstall the OS then the packs one by one, testing to see what causes the error. Then i'll post the results.
  23. I don't get what you're saying. You want to update your computer's BIOS from the startup disk? As the RAM disk's letter is assigned after your last partition's letter, or as C: if you don't have any partitions defined. I've never seen it assigned as A:. To get a "B:" drive you'll need to have two floppy drives installed in the computer, and insert the boot floppy in the second one.
  24. Hey MDGx, i wonder if you could help me with some issues i have with 98SE2ME. It's extremely unstable, but hey, it's 98. I have yet to find a pattern for the instability, so i'll leave that for later. Right now i'm confronted with the following issues: TeamViewer locks the system up a few seconds after opening it. Unicode text display errors, such as below: My system locale is set to Romanian. Can that be the problem? I have no problem switching to US English, just that i can't get used to the AM/PM clock.
  25. Thanks for the links MDGx. I already had the full suite (which i must say it's just like the current "tune-up" programs - ie almost useless), but thanks for your post, as now i noticed i can have media player 10 in my 98. Not that i'd actually use it (MPC+Winamp here), but that preview thingy in the webview is cool, and the wmp10 theme would look much better on it than the wmp9 one. Downloading now.
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