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i think, it is just stupid typo in code: they want "eat less cpu time if user is active", but get reversed.
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yes, new build now prodice sounds on line out... garbled exactly as
On 1/7/2026 at 8:10 AM, Drew Hoffman said:small segments will keep looping until I do something that causes hard drive activity and then it will play a bit more into the buffer.
i make some tests with SoundCheck (req KernelEx), and sometimes get slightly stuttered, almost pure sound, but this result was very unstable.
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On 12/13/2025 at 6:46 PM, Drew Hoffman said:
please try all audio jacks
1) downloaded latest version.
2) checked all five jacks on rear side.
no sounds...
for compare, i try mpxplay for DOS with default jack to play logon.wav — there was loud noises, slightly remember logon.wav...
i think it will good option use some registry key for manual iteration of pins and volume control.
i also have nvidia videocard with hda, connected to monitor with speakers. so i check playing this way soon...0 -
Huanazhi X99-TF (C612 chipset)
Intel Wellsburg PCH - High Definition Audio Controller [B1]
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8D20&SUBSYS_72708086&REV_05
RealTek ALC887
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0887&SUBSYS_10EC0887&REV_1003hda.sys driver is loaded, no crashes, 9x system see audio device, try play, but no any sounds.
on win10 with standart hdaudio.sys sounds ok.
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13 hours ago, awkduck said:
Whats an IPv6 application, for Win9x?
Xchat 1.8.8, Last one.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150103162921/http://xchat.org/files/source/
look as there is some sources...
why not try rewrite it with ipv6 support? 
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On 7/15/2025 at 9:28 AM, awkduck said:
I think the only way around the TimeBomb, is to keep the clock behind.
possible i already solved this "problem"...
patch for Vtwinsck.vxd SIZE 179861 DATE 5.May.2004 CRC32 5c32ece0:
2741C: A9 01 00 00 00 -> 33 C0 83 C0 01but i am not sure, that it was so simple...
i cant check, is it work properly, or not.and anyway, it crack all winsock subsystem...
my "9x" is 98IF, and too "updated" for this thing.so this is useless.
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no, it is absolutly useeless and unusable thing...
— it crack Kerio Firewall,
— it crack all system network utilites (ping, ipconfig, winipcfg, ...)
— it is constantly "expired".
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On 7/5/2025 at 5:02 AM, awkduck said:
I know that a Win9x IPv6 Winsock is possible, since Trumpet v5 exists.
What? Where i can download this miracle? I want see this!
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here is latest LIMEM version...
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1170414#p11704140 -
try standard HIMEM.SYS with /MACHINE:AT switch...
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13 minutes ago, SweetLow said:
Boot Managers allow this too
i use one only "boot manager" — PART, and only in minimal and stupid variant — one sector in MBR. this enough for select bw Win98, XP, 10 or Linux on same disk. 3-4 boot options per disk, switch to next disk, no PLOPS, no GRUBS, no CRABS, no PROBLEMS...
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26 minutes ago, David Silaban said:
The driver is for accessing the internal hard drive without using the BIOS emulation driver, like direct access to it?
you mean DMA? yes, these exist ONE that driver for relative modern machines (as i think, begin at P2 era) — UDMA/XDMA/UIDE/UHDD/XIDE/XHDD.SYS series, which also is disk cache.
http://optimizr.dyndns.org/dos/drivers.html
also i remember some "accelerated" drivers for older hardware (MSDOS/Win31 era)... but they is not generic, and in general useless... ordinal SMARTDRV give better effect.
last, all used me AHCI hardware and BIOS do HDD access fast enough to not use any other drivers or caches (use SMARTDRV, if you need speed-up random access for find files at all disk).
and REMEMBER: SMARTDRV have BUG, affecting on PARTITIONS bigger than 128 GiB (128 *1024 *1024 *1024 bytes) sized!0 -
19 minutes ago, David Silaban said:
any DOS IDE, SATA or AHCI driver?
for what? if you talk about CD/DVD drive — yes, there is VIDECDD.SYS for Legacy IDE (ie "true ISA IDE cntrls at ports below 400h"), UIDE/UDVD/XIDE/XDVD.SYS series for Native SATA mode (aka "non-legacy PCI IDE at ports above 400h"), and AHCI.SYS from Rloew, for AHCI mode.
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or we have just buggy/bad code is IDE cntrl BIOS add-on or main bios.
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4 hours ago, David Silaban said:
Which patches that are required for this to work? I just tried PATCHMEM and it still hangs at the same place.
are u try w/o JEMM* ? JEMM* is not compatible with 9x, even if DOS 7 normally work.
as i see on google, Thinkpad T410 is too MODERN machine for 9x:
- it is ACPI machine with too new ACPI standart version for 9x = many potencial problems with PnP and PCI subsystem of 9x.
- have too many RAM, cause many problems, which not fully solved with PATCHMEM (possible bad memory layout).
- use SATA or even AHCI mode for disk = need Rloew SATA patches, and AHCI driver (and latest Sweetlow patches for both).
- have EHCI mode USB cntrs only = need USB20 stack from ME/2K/XP (and patches by Sweetlow).
- have external graphical chip Nvidia Quadro, and there no drivers for 9x, except VBEMP.and also it is NOTEBOOK, what mean possibility other problems, often completely unexpected...
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1) jemm* never work with 9x.
2) need full stack Rloew patches.0 -
12 hours ago, ruthan said:
Sorry, i dont fully understand. Do you mean without additional drivers - no QuickInstall version? Did not yet.
i mean "without ANY potentially intervening layers between hardware and windows". GRUB does intercept some interrupts and modify some system tables during his work.
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are u try install w/o any grabs/crabs/etc?
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45 minutes ago, SweetLow said:
The problem was reproduced in Safe Mode, it is definitely not the OS configuration problem.
on my first expirience with 1155 i have long time with 98 install failure, until try ban acpi fully...
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i found likely problem with my experiments on "old pc simulators", when used scsi.
not sure, that here is allowed to attach or link "heavy modded io.sys file", but...
i can send it you for test to private, if you interested. or, as variant, try install ME.0 -
what disk cntrs mode is selected in BIOS? try set it to any non-RAID option.
try disable in BIOS all disk cntrs and other devices, except really needed for boot, which possible.0 -
3 hours ago, SweetLow said:
it is not so simple for DPMI executables
why even use dpmi for such simple app?
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1 hour ago, SweetLow said:
COPY /B CREGFIX.EXE+CREGFIX.SYS CREGFIX.EXE, isn't it?
no, no, no! hybrid sys+exe is not just concatenation.
when loading exe file via DEVICE= command, DOS wiill skip exe header only, not all body of exe file.
u need rewrite source for it.0
NVME driver
in Windows 9x/ME
Posted · Edited by MERCURY127
yesterday i can successfully boot my 98 from nvme!
0) (early) i convert my nvme gpt disk with installed win10 to mbr type, w/o data loss. unfortunatelly, i use already existed win10 recovery partition for new 98 copy - format as fat32 lba 545 mb at end of disk. it was wrong.
1) (yesterday) i move win10 ntfs part at disk end (cant delete it - there is value data), make new fat32 CHS part 500 mb at disk begin, format it and copy existed 98 folder from other disk.
2) at start i forget copy new build of SweetLow's driver, so use build w/o vsd, and after boot get many bsods "write error on disk C:" and garbage in file system. after SweetLow told about, i update driver, and get properly work 98 in protected mode. also verify booting in safe mode - here also all ok.
now i will try grow this partition to 8 and then to 20 gb, for new tests.