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No i have not time and now im back, so sometimes next week..

Dosbox on Windows 98, its running? Yeah im using Radeon X1300 with Bear drivers.

I just need to get value of registry keys, set values and create new keys from code by simplest possible way. Its longshot, but you never know, exist something like DOS / Windows library for DOS/Windows GUI development? Something what make abstract GUI layer would paint at least similar picture depends on detected OS? There such libraries for Win / Linux but for DOS.. Im trying to not have 2 different braches of code, only because i would like to run 1 app no DOS and Windows. Or its Windows 9x in windows MS DOS good enough and best way is just write DOS application and run in Windows in DOS mode? I just need some basic gui - to paint some topmenu, bars, few buttons, performance doesnt matters, if it would text style graphics like Turbo Vision im still ok with that. I wrote something for Dos lasttime when i was 14 years old and its allmost 20 years.

That its exactly means and could it be solution for me too?

Are you sure about this, what is exactly NIC number i always managed to install driver, not after restart i got Exclamation mark and it was not working. Xeno patch, what is it about? Russian bear VESA driver is working i think up to 1600x1200x32bit and direct draw gaming is working too , 60FPS in Unreal tournament 640x480 (bigger i didnt tested) and on Radeon X1300, but there issues like not working command promt - black screen. For FPS measurment i have used FPS 1.9D

Hmm board is also PCI less, that is good, but i see lots of board specific devices in the list.. Were they detected during installation, or its result of our updated Intel chipset INFs? I didnt use any INF, could you share them. Geforce you have 7950GT it could be difference, because i have use Rloew patch for it, it could matter.. Im not wrong Rloew wrote or author of 82.69 wrote that here shutdown problem is already patched, my bad memory sorry. Non Win9x question, did you managed to make on board Intel, i suppose it is 217 or 218, i spend lots of time on it? Even with Blackwings drivers and other i was not able make it..

You are right, but in text in was explained and i have added a note under picture.. I was in situation, if should post not picture at all or post outdated picture, i choice to use outdated.

Thanks, i know Phil, i only didnt know that i he has topis about it.. Aha, i heard this video best soundcard on second monitor, but i dont remember details about driver models, too new things for me.. Update: ok its text in addition to video.. Wow 50 or 70 FPS, only because of sound card selection, maybe is will need strong Core i7 for Windows 98 gaming - i dont now if is CPU limited (additional computation because of soundcard driver handling) or its really waiting for soundcard itself.

Only old picture, im not professional photographer After addtion only 2 or 3 PCI-PCI controller or bridge were found nothing else, i cant make new photo now - im in city lair (Prague scorched heart of europe, we good here with alcohol, drugs and porn that is our heritage:) Yeah who cares, we was 3rd in the space..

Update to Gigabyte z97p-d3 Audigy SB0160/0162 Sound card its working. I used this driver, simply driver installed and VDM driver, there is also VXD possibility i dont know that is better.. http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=372278&auth=At82snaUidNtrCvtF7wFYmllar0f3%2BrewfY6ssl80ATDvEAre4xH6mjQh5y4E8e9IX%2B%2F1QJpbK4TH8E2O6baxhhD4LLQVncaNvTzrVyUQu7cQ8KOU4XplkUlReR1L%2FiV&frmist=1 All what is tested with sound is working, system sounds, Dxdiag sound test etc.. I will test some games later. PS2 mouse working too of course. Some pictures: Use CPU is here Core i5 - 4460, 4 core no HT, primary origin for this slimer are Unraid experiments. So main issue is now not working USB, it could be bypassed by USB2 controller, but will out of 1 of 2 PCI slots, so will need to buy lots of PCI-E to PCI adapters - they working with AM3 board so i will probably with this board to, same as PCI-E GPU with proper Win98 driver, im testing too PCI-E card with Russian Bear universal driver - no 3D and there is other issues..

Hello, i have board with only PCI-E slots, Win98 where installed / normal mode is running but device tree is pretty clean.. No any specific number in devices name, only generic devices.. I added PCI device bus device manually which usually generated other device detection, but only some PCI-PCI bridges were detected and its all.. Does it mean dead end for Windows 98 usage? Or could be device detection forced by adding other devices? Even HDD controller is not here at all, make sense to try add devices manually? I dont have any PCI-E to PCI reduction.. Im using only Geforce 7950GT PCI-E, which in device tree was only Standart VGA before i forced driver, i have tried to force Nvidia Unofficial 82 driver with Rloew patch, i dont get it working, unfortunatly, i dont have any other Windows 98 PCI-E GPU or device to test.. I theory G7950GT could work too, but i not at 1st attemp, sometimes help, try make it work multiple times, but i havent time today.. Here you can see clean device tree: PCI Bus device was added after times pictures were made but only 2 or 3 new PCI-PCI controller were detected.

Hell ou, when im installing drivers for Audigy there is a choice VXD or WMD, has anyone experience how is a difference, what is a better?

If you are talking about AMD970 machine, no NIC still there to minimize problem during testing.. I was trying combo RAM patch, no patched io.sys yesterday, it was that 160GB HDD crashfest.. It dont need to patch io.sys when im using you patch, i thing that i tried your ram pach and patche io.sys together and it was ok, from point of view booting, but crashing was same.. I wonder, if split8MB (im using because of Gb NIC boot), couild be used without rest of rampatch, with himem.exe 3.32, which i im using for ro too much ram fixing? I tried to find you what is exactly my io.sys magic patcher.. Its name as IO.sys patch to replace himem.sys by Himem.exe byRayeR.. compiled 2008, its using japheth.de HimemX.exe 3.32, but is renamem to Himem.exe i dont know why. I dont know if there is newer version but its working. Its all moding System.init - MaxPhysPages=4000;MaxFIleCanche=, MinFileChache =261120 ,32768 ChunkSize=4096 All instalallation without our RAM patch was stable - 0 rundll issues on 160 GB hardware, until i have intalled Nvidia drivers, after that Gaming was or not freezes, but right click on desktop stopped working (nvidia panel is there) and explorer started to do errors, but no so much as with your ram patch and no any data corupptions, registry recovery infinite scandisk restarts etc.. So summary is: Ram patch a non Nvidia driver - no go Rl Ram patch + Nvidia driver - no go Japhet Ram patch + No video - all ok, no issues Japhet Ram patch and video - no go, game are working, but explorer is broken (desktop is using NV controll panel extender).. So question is how much are Japhet patch, Unofficial Nvidia driver and your patches compatible and on which side is a problem. I can say how many thing are doing fixed nvcore.vxd and what could be Nvidia driver problem, but i just expented that machine would work all together, because patch which still led machine not useful sucks.

Maybe would be easier finaly fix my Conroe sata controller problem and i will have at least 1 Win98 ready (except microfreezing, but i will debug.. or reinstall it) Actually i have controler in Sata mode, AHCIBIOS in autoexec, controllers are in safe mode recognized as Ata106.. When i booting into normal mode, is hang on ESDI506 (bootlog), it have tried patched and unpatched version (by PTCHSATA), its same.. I dont know that to do next, i checked manual, i dont get what DISKBIOS is doing, i have only AHCIBIOS.

I dont know exactly why maybe because of NIC is not here, or second GPU is removed but i have now 2989 MB of Mem, so i hit 2.75 GB area, but on 40GB, im already limiting ram to 1024 in system.ini and behavior of machine is the same.. Good news is that except these rundll32 errors, nvidia and sata patch are installed fine, i didnt tested, because install something with half working explorer is problem, but i thing that game freezes would be not here too.. Im test it tommorrow. I dont need and want to do experiments with Ram patch on Conroe machine, because its its bit slow for every iteration but i have second Z97 and X99 machine and would test ram patch there.

I started to use you ram patch only because of boot problem with Gb Intel NIC, if you wish i can replicate same installation with Himem.exe and io.sys patcher to fix > 512 MB memory problems, im quite sure that it would work. Im at least getting better and in Sata and Nvidia patch instalation.. If is not PCI patch optimal, name it patchOPT is not good idea. In 40 GB i installed patchopt its same.. I dont installed patchopt maybe on X99 system, im not sure, i will reinstall it tommorrow, if will have a time. I can say that before ram and nvidia patch, i had stable system with VGA PCI Adapter and 100 Mbit Intel network, with installed ram patch i have everytime on lots of errors during basic work, its not classical Win98 lack of stability, system almost cant be used.. I both this HW only because i believe that our patches will work, ok i can live without 1 Gb NIC and i can go to buy 256 MB GPU.. Its same with my conroe system, i believed in your sata patch, so i have bought SATA SSD..

I previously used 1 partition HDD.. but i run out of HDDs, this one have 1 Win98 partition which ran well in the pass, 1 ntsfs and 1EXT4 partion, 1 fat 32 partion for data - last 80 GB, its 160 GB HDD, in other try with this MB i used 40 GB hdd only 1 FAT32 partions, but behavior is was same.. I dont believe that problem is storage.. problem is RAM patch probably. Its partitioned in Paragon HDD Suite 12+ . Win98 is first partition 15 GB at the start of disk. I have tried 4 storage device, on 2 of were other partitions and other OSes which runs totally fine, but on 3 of 4 even i tried (1 i dint tried) your ram patch these strange errors emerged..

Clean instalattion by your tutorial, i have got 3 strange errors (2x rundll during desktop and suer details setups) and i thin 1 more reboot and 2x scandisk in middle of installation. Once registry recovery. All these after step 9.

I have tested new (non by your tutorial, i will do it) later AMD970 installation, with modified PCI.VXD i Nvidia drivers startet to work, but right after boot im getting those rund32.dll errors in NVCPL.dll, Explorer, Error, Systray error, right click always getting error (ilegal operations and ASM registry values) etc... But no microfreezes in the games - that was that i wanted to test. I used Himem.sys (original) Numhandles=80 machine:1, Sata patch installed and running ok. Problem could be connected with some data corruption, because i multipletimes tried to run Scandisk and im getting that scandisk was 10 times restart, but no visible file operation is running.. HW minimal setup no second GPU, no NIC, only one 1 Geforce 7950GT As i said there have to be some bug..

I got only one. In original manual, this step was optimal, im not sure, i need to check, i installed to many patches in these days. UPDATE: Sorry i have reinstall it, problem with memory card, i was to quick with its removal, when i was transferring data and FS was broken as it is memory card and only FAT32 recovery didnt worked. There is difference himem.exe and himem.sys, im using Win98 integrated himem.sys or himem.exe 3.32 when im not not using you ram patch, so recently i have used it everywhere. With Ram patch is hard to say which step when, machine is unstable as hell, im getting even rundll32 errors right after boot, something is not even booted, something i have to one, minutes use machine to get errors, but i from the start, i can see graphic glitches like that broken cotrol panel icon..

And magic solution, or only new monitor is can help me? I have old big CRT in the garage in 1 my lair, but i want to give it change, when Win98 would be up and running.. Maybe as in old days, i can try overclock monitor by powerstrip or something like that, i did it for CRT.. when 70,75Hz were killing my eyes and 5,10Hz more were nice. BTW what lines as this in autoexec / config, i never need to understand it, think about it, its Windows 98 related, or its Dos thing not related to my problem? deviceHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1) Other strange this that if not wrong is not working even with standart PCI driver..

I did that by the book, but im still a bit suspicious, because these commands not give me any success /error message.. and filesize is same to byte, now that there is modified date, but you know, something it should be double checked, NVSIZE checker is size, i would be for similar thing for nvcore.vxd Here is file which suppose to be patched: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2741044/Win98-onX99/SYSTEM-NVcore.zip If X99 is not supported, its ok, but i tested it anyway, i had HW ready for testing.

BootLog from new clean X99 machine, crash is NVcore.vxd, is there way to check if file is really properly patched, even i start patcher, i didnt get any message, only file is created and has same size.. Card bios is patched, driver checker is needed. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2741044/Win98-onX99/X99-BOOTLOG.TXT

Hello, i have annoying problem with i dont know from old machines, its that when i start command.com in safe mode and i getting black screen.. My have 2 suspicion bug in Nvidia unofficial drivers or problem with LCD of refresh rate detection, i heard that that Dos is written for 70Hz i have 60Hz HP LP2475w connected to DVI and Dell 2007PF.

Well if is not API or Library, but just source i would take too much time to study.. Is not code as code. Some C/C++/C# (if it can run in DOS, i guest i cant) Library for DOS registry work would be best, commandline utility is worse, but still better than nothing and if Library would have good quality, could be even better choice. I just need to get some values and set some value, there is not nothing easier in theory.