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Which is still Franck Uberto's one, originally distributed as fu_rd19i.zip: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/rmdrv/fu_rd19i.htm jaclaz

As usual. WHAT did you find? (EXACTLY) WHERE did you find it? (EXACTLY, post a link) Your Windows 98 can or cannot read it? You opened "details" of what? This thingy here? http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr1800.html I don't think there is any driver for 9x for it jaclaz

Then, try the suggested one. Rest assured that if Fernando recommends one, it has been tested thoroughfully. http://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-RAID-and-NVMe-Drivers.html jaclaz

xHCI ? You mean USB 3+? As long as BIOS provides access to it/booting from it, sure (for the booting, NOT for keyboard/mouse AFAIK). Who talked of Linux? What do you mean "I remember it crashed", there are several ways/methods for 9x in ramdisk, some needing/using a registry redirector, some possibly needing it not. It's a lot of time noone dedicated some time to similar projects, *like*: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/ or http://www.craftcom.net/15_cdboot_hdd/tisk_cdboot_w98.htm (the Qualystem approach worked just fine) and there were quite a few progresses in the meantime, though most of the projects revolved around "minimal" Windows 9x, like: http://reboot.pro/forum/53-winimize/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140391-windows-98-live-cd-project-update/ (for the record the project by Beatzero, that started out as very promising, in later versions - before being abandoned for good - was *somehow* over-engineered to the point it didn't work anymore reliably). jaclaz

As always: Which drivers did you download? Downloaded from where? Which BSOD? (which Stop error) Is that an Asmedia 106x controller, is it not? http://www.win-raid.com/t1256f25-unable-to-install-x-sata-controller-bsod.html jaclaz

Well, Windows 9x has been run in RAMdisk since YEARS (using Franck Uberto's XMS ramdisk, usually) and now (last few years) that we have the great flexibility of grub4dos, there are no problems with initiating the booting from a USB device. As a matter of fact, most probably it would be relatively easy for Rloew to provide a "hooking" mechanism similar to the one Firadisk or Winvblock use. Of course the initial copying of files to ramdisk takes anyway some time, so the size of the "system" volume backing file should be chosen with some common sense. jaclaz

Well, it should have been posted here : jaclaz

Seemingly the Startech PEXUSB4DP can still be found, like: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=PEXUSB4DP&_sop=15 http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=fed&cs=16&sku=a7016982 jaclaz

To be fair the most promising (though not yet "there", it has nice 3dfx support), is PCem (Author is Sarah Walker): https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ jaclaz

Why, in my day, I had a ZX-80 with a whopping 1 Kb of memory .... ... and we liked it : https://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html BTW, let's not perpetrate urban legends, however: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp And yes, 16 Gb of RAM on Windows 7 64 bit system do seem like "adequate" (though on the "abundant" side of possible ranges), but 29 Gb on a 9x/Me system still seem "excessive", let's say that the first represent 8 (eight) times the "minimum requirement" of 2 Gb (and are supported in the design of the OS by the manufacturer), the second represent 928 (ninehundredtwentyeight) times (it sounds more like a Porsche car model than a - anyway large - multiplier for RAM size) the minimum amount for Me (32 Mb). Given that also processors have made some slight progresses, all in all nowadays a VM is several times faster (including a "plain" storage subsystem, possibly on SSD) than the fastest machine any programmer of any program (game or otherwise) would have dreamed of, even if you allow for a 30% to 50% slugginess due to the virtualization. As you correctly presumed I am not too much into gaming (please read as not at all since many, many years), but allow me to presume that reaction times of the player has not increased with similar rates, and that even loading times of complex games, comparing a year 20xx IDE DVD reader against a modern SATA SSD, (but nothing in the case of a VM running on a more modern OS prevents from having them in a RAMdisk) are not that bad. jaclaz

Sure, but it's not that you actually use it (without a suitable ramdisk). You don't *need* that crazy amount of memory (generally speaking) but SURELY you won't have a practical use for it in Windows 98/Me. Mind you it is fine (and often "fun" ) to do experiments for "futile" motives, like "because I can", or "because noone did it before", it is the attempt to make it seem "rational" that creates the circular reasoning. There is NO (rational) reason for 29 Gb of RAM, let alone on a 9x/Me machine, and if there was one you have spent by now all the time you could ever save with a fast ramdisk theorizing on ramdisks, nitpicking on their names and more generally arguing on nearly everything that has been posted. Sure the US$ 40+ for a PCI Express to PCI adapter is "overpriced", but while I could say so (being notoriously cheap ) you cannot, not after having spent good dollars for a large amount of RAM that you cannot use (without a suitable ramdisk) additionally creating artificially (because you have so much RAM) the need for the suitable ramdisk. This seems pretty much circular to me. jaclaz

Sure , but you are asking about a low profile video card "the best possible" AND compatible with Windows 98", what I was trying to tell you was that maybe instead of having the possibility to choose between a handful of low-profile card you could prefer to have the possibility to choose among tens of "full sized" video cards (BTW also much easier to find used/second hand) using such a riser card (of course it depends on the specific motherboard/case if the solution is suitable). jaclaz

8 cm? Wouldn't you want/need a PCI AGP raiser card? *like* (examples): http://www.cablematic.it/AGP-Riser-card/ https://www.startech.com/support/MICROAGPRIS http://cofan-usa.com/riser-cards/agp-series/ jaclaz

See if this fits the bill : https://www.sevenforums.com/customization/45276-possible-change-list-item-height-spacing.html jaclaz

A nice example of circular reasoning. jaclaz

Ow, come on, you cannot discuss with Google, nor nitpick with it on names given to programs, half of the fun would go away. Just as an example, without the information that fu_rd comes out from Franck Uberto's Ram Disk, one may assume that it comes from "furd" which would open a hell of a renaming contest: jaclaz

I call my (NT, not 9x/Me) ramdisk "George". And speakin' o' names, I know a man ... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/quotes?item=qt1045247 jaclaz

Naaah, the philosophy (mine) is "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and "less is more" (and "everything must be as simple as possible, but not simpler"). Those systems, though actually used 24/7, are (were) used for a limited number of programs, all (or almost all) of the kind where speed is no issue at all (we like to call this "work"), basically where you need to type data in them and then print these data in some kind of ordered fashion doing some calculations on the numbers. Just for the fun of it, do this experiment. Install Excel (*any* version after Office 95) and/or LibreOffice Calc (any version). Use Excel (or Calc) to (say) keep a list of your expenses, or do whatever calculations one normally does on a spreadsheet, Now download this: http://www.byedesign.co.uk/ http://www.byedesign.co.uk/s32/spre32en.zip And WITHOUT installing it (actually opening it in 7-zip and double clicking the exe will be fine) do the same activities as above. Do you really miss a zillion senseless icons (let alone if office 2007 or later the stupid ribbon)? How fast is loading (let alone installing) the one or the other? Think about the value expressed as a ratio actual usefulness/size on disk (and in memory). jaclaz

Well, it is not like there will be such a long list. SHSUFDRV: http://adoxa.altervista.org/shsufdrv/index.html Franck Uberto's one: http://www.geocities.ws/politalk/rmdrv/fu_rd19i.htm SRDISK: https://sourceforge.net/projects/srdisk/ Cenatek (Shareware), pretty hard to find nowadays: http://cz.nnhost.ru/soft/%D1%E8%C4%E8%F0%EE%EC/MkBootCD/ramdisk9xme15.zip jaclaz

I just (april 2017) put into retirement (not that there was any actual *need* to retire them, they were both just fine, it was mostly due to a few changes in the programs - some web based - that must be run on them) a couple machines, one running NT 4.00 (since 2003, 24/7) and one running Windows 2000 (since 2003. on 24/7) [*], "new" machines are running 7. I ran NT on my personal machine since 1995 up to 2001, and 2000 from 2001 up to 2009, XP since 2009. JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/157061-xp-is-2000-plus-the-fancy-theme-youre-wrong/?do=findComment&comment=1001379 jaclaz [*] One fanless, the other with a fan, with NO downtime whatever, only shutdown for maintenance and for replacement of parts (a couple disks and quite a few power supplies, respectively 3 and 2, if I recall correctly) .

How many years did you use daily, for work, each of the mentioned Operating Systems? jaclaz

windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe IA is for the (almost not used) Itanium platform: http://www.askvg.com/guide-what-does-ia64-or-itanium-based-system-mean-is-it-different-from-x64-64-bit/ jaclaz

Isn't it the "normal" way for a range? I mean in the given example: -range:8808448-9236127 should mean get the bytes from offset 8808448 to offset 9236127 in file <given long url>.iso, this would make the Windows 8.1 bootmgr 9236127-8808448=427679+1=427680 bytes in size, which sounds just right. @JFX Seemingly the -out parameter works fine (i.e. the file is downloaded to the given directory and file name, but the "final" message in the GUI is misleading as it uses as path the "current directory" (where GWT.exe is). If using the GUI and asking to download the whole 8.1 Waik files, there is an error message (with no specification) "Failed to download the necessary files.". As a matter of fact some of the files are actually downloaded, cannot say if *all* of them. Maybe if you could add something a -list option, so that one knows which files are included with a given switch, it would be useful, like: GWT -Win8.1 -list \ADK5\ \ADK5\x86\ \ADK\x86\BCDBoot\bcdboot.exe ... As well (IMHO) adding a -x86 and a -x64 to limit the download to only one architecture would save a lot of bytes/time. jaclaz

Nice , is there anywhere a way to retrieve the currently used URL's (and optionally change them)? Just in case an URL becomes invalid and/or should another source become available, etc. As a side note, ideally there could be some sort of .ini file (.ini just to say "human readable") with the pre-configured URL's and ranges and the possibility to add a button like "Custom" ( with a drop-down set of checkboxes fetching the "title" from the .ini entry). jaclaz

Three years? Possibly developing two os's at a time is more terrifying than terrific. jaclaz