Joseph_sw

September 13, 2010

Thats faulty of XP' Local Security Settings.

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policies -> Security Options

Look something like "Network access: " that has disable/enable settings

fiddling with them could resolve it.

(Usualy this:

Network access: Do not allow annoymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares.

in my settings i change it to: Disabled,

counter intuitive with double negative.)

However, i also recomend to DISABLE "Remote Registry", in Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

Before i disable that services, i've discover that other connected XP machine interfering with registry that revert my custom XP local security setings to their unconfortable 'default' settings.

Some malicious malware also exploit that services too.

Remote Registy .., i glad win9x doesn't have this stupidity.

Windows 9x Member Projects · September 12, 2010

Please tell us more on how to replicate this error. Also please try "Disable custom heap" compatibility mode.

i use the Mame Official Windows Binary Packages release from: http://mamedev.org/release.html

It also have link for source code, and link for a few roms test (just copy/move the downloaded rom in .zip form to roms directory).

To clarify per MSFN rule, respective Owner of that roms, gives their explicit permision for MameDev to host their roms images there.

i already try the "Disable Custom Heap" option as well any others in KernelEx compatibility settings tabs, none of it solve the Mame problem on RC1 / RC3 release, i got the same result.

To replicate the error simply try to run the MAMEPP.EXE

Should nothing goes wrong, Mame should give the list of random selection of available roms from roms directory.

However with RC1/RC3 i got ta Message saying "Out of Memory!", then exit the Mame.

Windows 9x Member Projects · September 12, 2010

i lucky enough to grab the Kex 4.5 RC3 before it got withdrawed.

i installed on my system {English 98SE, with 98SE2ME + NUSB 3.3 + RP 9.6.6} so far i haven't encountered any problem with it.

The RC3 still have the same behaviour as RC1 thats makes MAME spiting "Out of Memory!" exception error, regarless compatibly settings.

Downgrade to beta2 make MAME works, but obviously flash10 is not working with beta2, so i keep the RC3 instead.

Windows 9x Member Projects · August 7, 2010

KEX-4.5-RC1 is cool, regsvr32 now works properly for many .ocx/.dll,

for example: 'regsvr32 flash10h.ocx' now just simply works.

however, this release also raises (std::bad_alloc &) exception error, that makes M.A.M.E decided to terminate its process.

Mame source-code: http://mamedev.org/release.html

i'm using MemeUI32 which is a Mame front-end that integrated with the main mame core: http://www.mameui.info/

the exception error doesn't happen if i fall back to KEX-4.5-Beta2.

codes from mame's machine.c

...

	catch (std::bad_alloc &)
	{
		mame_printf_error("Out of memory!\n");
		error = MAMERR_FATALERROR;
	}

...

Mame gives me "Out of memory!" messages box error when i tried to run the roms, with Kex 4.5 RC1.

Windows 9x Member Projects · June 20, 2010

in one win98SE machine, i can't use any usb flash disk, it just gives usual blue-screen Exception Error 0E xxxx:xxxxxx IOS (4) vxd stuff.

however, after checking bootlog.txt content i found suspicious entry:

[0015EE7A] Dynamic load failed  C:\WINDOWS\system\IOSUBSYS\intelvsd.vxd : [0015EE7A] Not a valid device  - possibly corrupt

after removing that file from IOSUBSYS directory (renaming it into antyhing_else.vxd, wont work), NUSB is now fully functional in that machine.

QV2KUX.SYS

minimum API requirement checking can be done using wdmcheck under win9x system.

February 20, 2010

i having trouble when i tried to select some texts by click-drag on this forum,

this forum get un-responsive for couples seconds to a few minutes, happen only on new forum though, never happen before the upgrade.

so, my temporary workaround is to add www.msfn.org into restricted sites zone.

sure i lost many functionality what the new forum offer, but it makes this forum more browseable.

Windows 9x Member Projects · February 8, 2010

I didn't feel like pushing it to the limit. My original unicode.bin only had 5 code pages, and I've added an extra 4 (all East Asians). Your 30-pages bin should probably go on mgdx or something. Could you list the code pages you have there?

well, the unicode.bin that i have was exactly came from the win98_22.cab file.

i also have my winME installer ready, unicode.bin from win_8.cab which also binary exact match with the win98se (win98_22.cab) counter part.

this the listing codepages found in that unicode.bin

 1 -  437 - 0034C 0022C 1 - 00578 0027D   12
 2 -  850 - 007F5 0022C 1 - 00A21 001D9	6
 3 - 1252 - 00BFA 0022C 1 - 00E26 001AA   10
 4 - 1250 - 00FD0 0022C 1 - 011FC 008C4  137
 5 - 1251 - 01AC0 0022C 1 - 01CEC 00643   88
 6 - 1253 - 0232F 0022C 1 - 0255B 006B5   99
 7 - 1254 - 02C10 0022C 1 - 02E3C 008A1  134
 8 - 1257 - 036DD 0022C 1 - 03909 00395   55
 9 -  737 - 03C9E 0022C 1 - 03ECA 003C1   56
10 -  852 - 0428B 0022C 1 - 044B7 00881  132
11 -  855 - 04D38 0022C 1 - 04F64 0061B   85
12 -  857 - 0557F 0022C 1 - 057AB 00890  133
13 -  866 - 0603B 0022C 1 - 06267 0061C   85
14 -  869 - 06883 0022C 1 - 06AAF 0064E   92
15 -  775 - 070FD 0022C 1 - 07329 00243	5
16 -  874 - 0756C 0022C 1 - 07798 00191   12
17 - 1258 - 07929 0022C 1 - 07B55 002E1   40
18 -  860 - 07E36 0022C 1 - 08062 0093C  144
19 -  861 - 0899E 0022C 1 - 08BCA 0093C  144
20 -  863 - 09506 0022C 1 - 09732 0093C  144
21 -  865 - 0A06E 0022C 1 - 0A29A 0093C  144
22 - 1255 - 0ABD6 0022C 1 - 0AE02 0023A   26
23 -  862 - 0B03C 0022C 1 - 0B268 009FA  160
24 - 1256 - 0BC62 0022C 1 - 0BE8E 0031F   44
25 -  708 - 0C1AD 0022C 1 - 0C3D9 001F0	9
26 -  710 - 0C5C9 0022C 1 - 0C7F5 00245   20
27 -  711 - 0CA3A 0022C 1 - 0CC66 001F9   14
28 -  720 - 0CE5F 0022C 1 - 0D08B 0020B   12
29 -  786 - 0D296 0022C 1 - 0D4C2 001F3   13
30 -  864 - 0D6B5 0022C 1 - 0D8E1 00218   14

listed in order of appearances in original unicode.bin that i have

Code page - Offset Length Ranges (cp to uni) - Offset Length Ranges (uni to cp)

i suspect that localized version of win9x might have different content of unicode.bin going on.

ack, its make me want to hunt for that files.

Windows 9x Member Projects · February 7, 2010

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oh sorry, i have been busy trying to port that java into Delphi as that remaining programing language that were still installed on my computer, i lost my java se installer somehow.

i probably gonna need the unicode.bin result from that java program, just to compare wether my port attempt were done correctly or not.

currently i just finished porting the CodePage class, so i haven't tried how the new unicode.bin will works on the system.

question:

1. is there any limit in maximum size unicode.bin? i intend to add all codepage for every existing cp_###.nls in my computer.

original unicode.bin were only contain 30 codepages, you example was 9 codepages, in my system theres 36 cp_####.nls files.

2. in prgram given it seem you deliberately skip cp.addMapSingle() for cp 0x81, 0x8D, 0x8F, 0x90, 0x9D, for cp1252 why is that?

that were incidentaly chracters that can't be used as filenames in cp_1252.

the differences between cp_1252.nls and cp-1252 in original unicode.bin was 0x8E & 0x9E which also can't be used in filenames.

anyway that java code were very informative , thanks to that i now know about how unicode.bin should be read/inspected.

while unicode.bin contain 30 cps, i look in win98se .cab files, it only provided 20 cp_####.nls files, hmm...

Windows 9x Member Projects · February 5, 2010

Having a mismatch between the GUI code page and the FS code page just causes files of either locale to be inaccessible.
Well, I've done some more research. Apparently, IFSMgr has an ANSI API which is used by Kernel32. (I think it also has a Unicode API, but it's hard to get concrete details on IFSMgr's API)
When it receives an ANSI filename, it makes a conversion using tables located in Unicode.bin (One file for all CPs, now there's a bottleneck). I've modified it to add a few extra code pages, and successfully gotten access to localized files. It uses the same registry key as the GUI code page, but is more limited since it uses a single data file (instead of the pluggable NLS files).
It does require restart every time I want to change code pages, and every time I only have access to some of my files. It only support encodings up to 2 bytes per character, so creating a UTF-8 code page is out of the question (unless I want to recode IFSMgr itself).

i'm definetely interested about modifiying the unicode.bin myself, as i still have grudge on CP-1252 about ansi/ascii character that can't be used as filenames.

now, where do i start? what i need to know about unicode.bin' data structures?

Windows 9x Member Projects · February 5, 2010

Fat32 uses UTF16 long file names, so somewhere between CreateFileA and the IO subsystem, the ANSI filename is converted to UTF16 (using a distribution-dependent codepage). The only question is where. If I knew the answer to that, I could patch it area to use a more comprehensive codepage, such as UTF8. Then supporting arbitrarily localized filenames would be simple.
Since I've recently tested replacing my ifsmgr.vxd with localized versions (those were hard to track down), to no effect, I think it is safe to assume it is locale-independent.

is theres also posibilty that conversion were done by kernel32.dll itself (somewhat semi hard-coded) ?

as in the kernel32.dll file also contain some data structure of those cp_####.nls files

the 8->16 CodePage to UTF16,

and 16->16 UTF16 to CodePage data structures (using to those three-layered lookup table)

thanks to your earlier post about the .nls files, i found that fact in kernel32.dll

January 13, 2010

I think the OP is talking about drivers for a USB Modem/Cellular Modem. These are EV-DO or 3g devices that plug into your computer and connect just like a cell-phone would.

i also have similar devices (its Huawei E220 HSDPA USB modem), but ...

If a manufacturer says that Windows 98 is "not supported", it doesn't mean that you can try installing the Windows 2000/XP drivers. After all, Windows 98 does support WDM 2.0, which is what Windows 2000/XP uses. You may still have luck with those drivers.

yeah the driver is wdm compliant, however it still have missing imports, wdmcheck told me so.

i notice that missing imports were provided by winxp system services. (such as smartcard discovery, etc...)

until i found a way to provide it to drivers (perhaps thru emulation layer), or better yet, find a win9x compatible drivers,

that devices won't be usable in win9x.

---

sidestory:

its kinda ironic, that because wdmcheck i finaly figured out why that device works on some winxp system, but not on others xp system.
those system have their some of needed system services disabled, most likely due to efficiency reasons.
nowhere in manual, nor in program provided, stated that such system service must be enabled in order for the device to works properly.

Windows 9x Member Projects · January 12, 2010

disable hardware acceleration (!).

i guess i'm not the only one who also disable hardware acceleration settings in flash.

however, my story was quite diferent, i found that in my system, with that setting on, when the flash tried to swicth to full-screen mode, its shows grabled display instead. (only some .swf behaves like that though)

gfx: ATI Radeon 9250

January 11, 2010

Of course it is very probable that a number of things may be bugged simply because they "ignore" this setting, as the 0002/512 has been there since the dawn of PC's.
jaclaz

I'm also curious whether IO.SYS really observes that bootsector setting, or simply 'ignores' it.

December 27, 2009

i just found another information that might be the true cause why win98SE (english) refuse to do any file operations, with such character.

i found data structures that very similar in those cp_####.nls in KERNEL32.DLL.

that structure is CodePage_to_UTF (100h words lookup) followed by UTF_to_CodePage data (this even using the same 3-layered lookup),

after checking i also found conversion from CodePage to UTF back to CodePage from that data in kernel32.dll, doesn't match for following CodePage indices:

80, 81, 8D, 8E, 8F, 90, 9D, 9E

with exception for 80, the rest were characters that can not be used in filenames! (in ACP 1252)

UTF_to_CodePage data was 2F0 words in size.

i intend to patch that data to prove the suspicion,

however, i not quite sure how to do that other than manual hex editing,

and i still having trouble forming/forging a proper UTF_to_CodePage table that will fit the size restriction.

edit:

i 'll try to fix the 81 & 8F 8E & 9E, i'll inform the result

UPDATE:

that also turn to be failed too, i still can't use that characters in filename.

Windows 9x Member Projects · November 16, 2009

a fews days ago i decided to download the latest known directX redist (Aug 2009)

download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...b1-442d8712d553

after installing it on other winxp, a thought to see if it would still exhibit the same type of error as previous redist on win98se, occured to me.

i followed the thought and proceed to install it on my win98SE system, and to my surprise it said "Installation Complete" !

couldn't believe my eyes, then as confirmation i look for DirectX.log file, it also have this following lines:

11/16/09 13:32:13: DXSetup: No command line switch
11/16/09 13:32:13: DXSetup: StartWizard()
11/16/09 13:32:14: dsetup32: IsWow64(): Windows 2000 or Windows 9x.
11/16/09 13:32:16: DXSetup: CDXWSetup()
11/16/09 13:32:17: DXSetup: start installation
11/16/09 13:32:17: DSETUP: DirectXSetupA(): hWnd: 00000554 dwFlags: 02010098


11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: === SetupForDirectX() start ===
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: Sep  4 2009 17:32:16
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: DXSetupCommand = 0.
11/16/09 13:32:17: DXSetup: DSetupCallback(): Phase = 0, Steps = 0
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: DirectXSetupIsJapanese == 0
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: DirectXSetupIsJapanNec == 0
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: Installing on Win98
11/16/09 13:32:17: dsetup32: IsWow64(): Windows 2000 or Windows 9x.
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: CLR version number = 2.0.50727
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: Checking the version: HKLM\software\microsoft\directx\Version
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: Version in registry = 4.09.00.0904
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: Version in DLL	  = 4.09.00.0904
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: RC in registry = 00, RC in DLL = 00
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: Core components have been installed already, core installation is skipped.
11/16/09 13:32:18: dsetup32: IsIA64(): Windows 2000 or Windows 9x

... ( *abridged* )

11/16/09 13:33:13: dsetup32: SetupForDirectX: InstallPlugIn() Succeeded.
11/16/09 13:33:13: dsetup32: start finalizing: phase: 62 - 62, total: 0 - 62
11/16/09 13:33:13: DXSetup: DSetupCallback(): Phase = 3, Steps = 0
11/16/09 13:33:14: dsetup32: Installation ended with value 0 = Installation succeeded
11/16/09 13:33:14: DXSetup: WM_APP_ENDINSTALL
11/16/09 13:33:14: DXSetup: ~CDXWSetup()

my system:

win98SE with 98SE2ME (Option 2)

unofficial MSVC redist

MS .Net2

Previous DX-9 redist that installable on win9x

RP9

KernelEx Final-2

MD IE 6sp1 Component Update (2.9)

M()zart' userenv.dll

i found it weird, that it doesn't end up like those unsupported dx redist before.

November 7, 2009

thanks for your information, i made registry changes that finaly works, however after one tries, it wont working anymore.

i suspected something probably wrong with the irc client itself.

the suspicion was finaly confirmed with this change-log statement:

Also irc:// links are now only added to the Current User registry, not the Local Machine registry and this is only done when mIRC is run, not by the installer.

yup, the irc client deletes the irc sub-key in HKLM and creates the new one on HKCU.

for some reason which i don't know, IE / win98SE explorer shell, won't process the irc protocol properly, if it wasn't existed in HKLM.

current workaround: downgrade the irc client to where that change hasn't been done.

November 3, 2009

how exactly registry need to be edited,

so when i simply click url like this: (or typing such url in address bar)

irc://irc.irchighway.net/certainchannel

IE6 / windows explorer would launch irc program (ie: mIRC) accordingly ?

November 1, 2009

i'm also prefer NetBeui than "NetBios over TCP/IP".

i got that knowledge from http://www.grc.com/su-rebinding9x.htm

as Steve Gibson said, now i refuse to bind TCP/IP with any M$ services. (unfortunately, this can't be fully done in XP)

even on my all winXP box, i also install the (unsuported) NetBeui, and do checkings to ensure that any TCP/IP transport would have "NetBios over TCP/IP" disabled.

August 22, 2009

win9x keep list of "installed" font in

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Fonts

each of normal, bold, italic, bold+italic variety will takes up an entry.

in normal case, entry on that registry will match existing font files in font folder.

(if the font folder works properly use command prompt to see exacty what files on it).

if the font folder doesn't work as it should ( no 'Install new fonts..' ), editing that registry will affect what font win9x will see.

Windows 9x Member Projects · August 21, 2009

awesome, another kex release (Final2), i'm gonna download it from sourceforge & install it right away.

thanks Xeno86

August 19, 2009

all these floppy formating talk reminds me of the old days (pre win9x) when i still using: 2M utility

i do rember formating diskette that normal dos' format.exe can't format (track 0 unusable stuff) into 2M-format, sometime if it works, it would reformatable again to standard dos format.

i was curios

August 15, 2009

i have this experience:

i plug another hardisk (its FAT32) that contain lots textfiles on it to a winxp system, i tried to find files that contain certain string.

if the string contain spaces on it, winxp complain that i should enable indexing services on it.

however if i plug that hardisk on win9x system, i can simply find such files without having the OS complain about it.

August 1, 2009

progressive.com and it screws

indeed, just by visiting its front page my GDI resources drops from 66% to 8% !

i'm using flash 10 on IE 6, with KEx4 final & normal RP-9 (1.0)

July 26, 2009

this happen in my case,

installing, using then, uninstalling Option #3 (shell replacement),

leaves drophandler key in various registry entries, which causes send-to (or drag-drop to application) not working.

i've manualy delete those registry keys to make 'send-to' works again.

those drophandler works on ME shell, but not in 98SE shell.

Windows 9x Member Projects · July 20, 2009

Comdlg32 5.50.4134.100 (I don't know if this one would work on your system)

dependency walker profile for that comdlg32 look intimidating with its red-marks, it seems the only way to use that version comdlg32.dll on my win98SE system, was via 98SE2ME - Option #3 (which i haven't use, yet)

oh well, here we go...

and, you're right, now many of those apps that previosly wont cough its file-dialog, now works.

thanks for the advice.

so, its really was comdlg32.dll problem, those who have similar problem (as current kernelex compatibilty database cited), could try this too.

UPDATE:

using newer kernelex (v4.0 Final by Xeno86 - 2009-07-23) also solve this problem without have to go thru shell replacement.

thanks to Xeno86.

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