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BWC has a dual-core patch...perhaps test if that will fix the bug?
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6 hours ago, RamonUn said:
This would be pretty cool, However the main GUI you have for Windows is SMPlayer. SMPlayer is only a GUI+MPlayer.
I Tried using SMplayer long ango and stop because the GUI slows everything substentially, however I remember there was an other option and it is named MPUI
http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about
I have not tried it again but I think it was 9x compatible, it is a bit old, I will give it a try when I have time.
Donot say you are a noob, come on, you are an active Win9x user this is pretty rare today, and you do have some talent to be able to use it today.
Trust me, just because I can install Windows 9x on a laptop and setup things, and maybe find the proper softwares, my experience with understanding the architecture or even compiling software is very, very limited. xD
Also, the site you linked me to confirms it's incompatible with Windows ME...
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Below is an experience of a physical installation only on 8xx chipsets:
I've only experienced this on Windows 98, I think???? I've found Windows 98SE isn't as friend with newer hardware compared to Windows ME. Perhaps give ME a try as a last resort; my Dell laptop's explorer.exe keeps crashing with Windows 98SE, but works just fine with ME.
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Hey, I'm a pretty big newbie at this, so I am wondering if it could be possible for you to provide a version with a GUI? The compiled version provided here lacks a skins folder, so I can't simply drag-and-drop one of the available skins on the website.
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Hey MSFN,
I've obtained a very low-end laptop with a limit of 1gb of ram, so I am hoping to figure out if I can get NT 4.0 running on this little device. I have tried installing a NT 4.0 SP1 installation, but am currently having a few issues that are preventing me from updating or even installing drivers: CD drive does not appear to work under NT (says wrong function), lack of native USB support, and partitioning.
I am hoping to install Windows NT 4.0 for the fastest experience; the installation alone was lightening fast. In theory, I could put Windows ME on this laptop, but I already have a ME installation at the moment.
Back to the NT installation, I obtained drivers for most of the devices (I don't think I have the chipset driver yet), but have no way to test the drivers because the laptop won't accept any transfer media.
Perhaps I could try making a dual-boot with Windows 2000 and transfer files via partition, or (this is a very time-consuming and inefficient method) install NT 4.0 on a virtual machine and bundle it with needed files and copy to the laptop via copyzilla.
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On 10/10/2020 at 7:41 PM, Ray890 said:
Interesting, very useful. I was inspired months ago by this topic to grab a M70 myself & your experience finally gave me that push to actually proceed with it.
I bought a RTL8185L based on recommendations here, sadly my BIOS cannot recognize it and after a few power-ons the system refuses to POST with that card in (possibly defective?), so I put the included Wireless 1370 back in, which maybe I'll have better luck with once I get hold of the ideal 9x driver.
With a 60GB partition placed on my spare and stupidly overkill 256 gig mSATA SSD in a mSATA to IDE converter and a gig of dual channel ram (don't think i'm ready to go higher), I've managed to get 98SE installed with ACPI, no flags or nothing, so far working flawlessly, even with DMA enabled! I fixed all the device manager hardware duplicates+conflicts as per cov3rt's instructions and now ready to install drivers.
I downloaded a copy of that 100000 driver pack you used, burned to disk and managed to use it on 3 (USB, Audio, and one other thing) of those 5 Found New Hardware screens that showed pre-login. Now, Device Manager's showing Ethernet and Network Adapter (probably wifi) with exclamation marks, however I gotta feeling I need more than just that considering I still don't even have proper video yet.
Whenever logged into W98, I hear a very faint high-pitched buzzing noise from the laptop, which makes me wonder if I'm missing some chipset-like driver (assuming I need one) that deals with power management. I'm a little confused about your mention of LoneCrusader's ICH6 driver, does this require me to modify the Windows 98 ISO and re-install the OS from scratch, assuming I still need this?
There seems to be conflicting opinions on whether to go with official 66.94 or unofficial 82.69 Nvidia drivers. A friend tells me that 81.98 is the last official driver and is recommended for a geforce 6800 in 9x; I'd like to think this is worth trying first but I'm not completely sure yet.
After I get the drivers, I'll run June 2007 Autopatcher for updates and usability patches. After this, I assume I'd be ready to go
No, you simply apply the INF6 files to hard disks in device manager.
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Hmmm, after trying to reinstall Windows ME, I've come across and issue that is preventing me from doing so:
After installing the INF chipset drivers by lonecrusader, the OS' resources are stuck conflicting. Attempting to change the resources ends up in a "disk write error" and does not proceed with changing the settings.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be?
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On 9/28/2020 at 12:46 AM, RamonUn said:
Since quite a long time now (at least 2016), I am doing MPlayer builds using MinGW, targeting My old Win98SE machine.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
There are a few modifications that are made to the code and then it works just fine. I decided to share those builds now so that everyone can benefit from it.
I mostly use WinXP now, and I still prefer to use my own builds for performance reasons and because I enabled automatic CPU detection which is quite helpful when installing on several computers.
Here is the link to a MEGA folder with last stable release (1.4) and last build.
https://mega.nz/folder/zbJiHIqK#garNgPLQaYp0Tu9bF--MsA
In general I recommend the last build because it is usually stable.
I will try to add every few months a new build (whenever I will need it).
Note that the stable builds requires at least an i486
The latest build requires at least an i586 because of latest ffmpeg (I may try to fix that in the future).
This player is very up to date and you will be able to decode any modern h264/265/opus streams etc.
Be sure to check the configuration in mplayer/config (open with notepad or any other text editor)
Whenever I start a new build I will always use the latest mplayer/ffmpeg config so that it all stays updated.
In the future I hope to build GNU TLS for 9x so that you can read HTTPS streams.
I will also need to add CD support someday...
Tell me what you think about it. Keep in mind however that I have very little time to bug-fix and do all of this.
I am definitely a newbie; I am attempting to launch this program on Windows ME, but the Window immediately closes. What's the issue here?
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Has anyone gotten a chance to test IDM Download Manager on Windows XP?
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On 8/26/2020 at 1:22 PM, athlonxpuser said:
Hey, does anyone know how to enable hardware acceleration in extreme explorer 12? Under "chrome://gpu" it tells me "GPU process was unable to boot: GPU access is disabled in chrome://settings." I looked everywhere in the settings but couldnt find anything related to GPU access or hardware acceleration. I also tried to enable "Override software rendering list" but that didn't change anything. The system is an AMD Phenom II X4 965, 4GB of RAM, HD4670 AGP running Windows XP. Hardware acceleration works fine on other browsers like Serpent or old Chrome versions... without hardware acceleration youtube videos are not playing smoothly, not even in 480p.
I wonder if this has something to do with making it compatible with XP. The Advanced Chrome Developer backported Chromium 69 to Windows XP at one point, but he lost the code...and executable. During the process, he had to remove material design and disable hardware acceleration.
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Hey MSFN,
Does such a thing exist on the web? We have the Youtube video helper, but I am hoping for just a direct video downloader for legacy systems because 9x is limited by both its wireless cards (I think?) and lack of modern web browsers. Is there any youtube downloader that is still compatible with Windows 9x or 2000?If not, I am hoping to maybe create one (that is, if I can learn how to)...
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Hey MSFN!
We all unite on these forums to exchange computer knowledge, so I was wondering if you anyone here wants to share their personal recipes. I'll start!
Coconut-Banana Pudding
I happened to have zero eggs on me and decided to see if I could make a good no-egg pudding, and to my surprise, bananas were the key! The pudding came out very nice and smooth.
Ingredients:
2 very ripe bananas
1 can full fat coconut milk
1 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
4 teaspoons tapioca starch
Instructions:
1) Mix tapioca starch with coconut milk and milk in pot. Cook on low heat.
2) Stir slowly to allow starches to form at high temperatures.
3) Smash 2 bananas and cream with sugar in other bowl. Mix until smooth. Put some pudding base in bowl, then recombine with pot.
4) Let thicken and cool.1 -
Nobody has updated the main list for over a decade, so here's my importing of softwares:
https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/p/latest-versions-of-software-working-on_20.htmlThere is a lot more to be added for the sake of preservation. I still need to color-code, fix alphabetical order, and import a lot of software.
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Hello. I know this thread is devoted to Windows 2000, but are there any topics providing a list of supported hardware for NT 4.0? Any info I could find on NT is extremely limited because it's rather obscure compared to its 9x brothers. I am trying to figure out whether or not my Dell Latitude D600 can properly run NT 4.0 with full driver support.
Chipset driver (8xx; I believe there is a working driver)
ATI Raedon 9000 (required DirectX on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP...would SciTech work? It would theoretically work on my Thinkpad R60's 945GM)
Sigmatel Audio 9250 (all versions of AC97 audio appear to work on Windows 98/ME) - Wondering if SnapAudio would do it.
Broadcom Ethernet (I think there's a valid driver for this one)
Dell Wireless 1300 and 1400 series (PROBLEMCHYLD had to modify the W2K driver to work on Windows 98/ME)
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6 hours ago, DosFreak said:
The last version of Paint.NET I ran on XP was v4.0.6
Where did you obtain the download? I could not get Paint.NET past version 3.51 to launch on Windows XP or Vista
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This topic should probably be moved to the Vista section. At the moment, I am trying to use PE Maker to force the installer to work on Windows Vista, but I still get the error that it's Windows 7 or later. I changed only the SubSysVersion to 6.0.
So far, I got NETFramework 4.8 to install on Windows Vista and applied the provided patch. I tried to launch a portable 4.2.12 version and the darn thing has an artificial blocker.
Now, I am trying to modify paintNET to install on Vista. I honestly need a tutorial for this or something.
1) Get the paint.net 4.0 beta file
2) Force convert to MSI with BWC's KDW???
3) Change minimum required version with PEMaker???
Could a hex editor help remove the block as well?
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In theory, we could try backporting WPA_SUPPLICANT to Windows 98. It launches on Windows 98, but does not work. The source code is available.
The problem is, none of us really know how to program wifi or wireless clients. I recall another user tried making a wireless client, but it apparently didn't work (detect wireless adapters) properly. He disappeared and MSFN crashed, so we lost the software...
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Sorry to bump this old topic, but has anyone previously obtained an unofficial backport of Foxit reader by NoNameNeeded?The download link on the original topic is dead...Software is still alive here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170825175818/http://members.kabsi.at/LIGHTYEAR/FoxitNT4.zip
This man did a great job backporting Foxit 3 to NT 4.0!
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I recall having this issue a month or two ago. I would recall boingo would work, but would immediately disconnect if connecting to the web with a web browser. I believe I fixed this by using odyssey client instead??? I can't quite remember...
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Just now, ED_Sln said:
Theoretically, yes. If the program itself did not use system calls that are not in Vista.
I just looked back at the topic a bit more...looks like Paint.NET 4.1.6 is a "no-go..."
I will try to use version 4.0 and beta 4.0 versions to see if this will work later.
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Just now, ED_Sln said:
Therefore, even if you manage to run the installer, the program itself will not work.
Hmmm...in theory, could we get it working if we do this for Windows Vista?
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Hey MSFN!
PaintNET has become my preferred art program because of the many wonderful plugins available! I was wondering if it was possible to do a simple tweak to get version 4.0 and later working on XP or at least Vista. I am hoping to get this working on a vanilla machine over an extended kernel for best stability. If we could get it working on XP, perhaps even 2000 with extended kernel could run it as well.
The main issues are the program contains an official OS blocker. I believe I need to use Orca to fix that issue? I checked the dependencies and Windows XP is missing the IESHIMS.dll and WER.dll. Vista is missing the GPSVC.dll, and modules in IEFRAME.dll and SHLWAPI.dll.
Would it be easy to patch these issues? I have no experience with dll dependencies and only had mixed experiences with placing Windows 2000/XP dlls in Windows ME to get programs working. My other experience with attempting to place Windows 7 files into Vista for Chromium lead to an endless loop of dependencies and files that would not connect to each other.
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I personally prefer hjsuffolk14's service pack the best to use. I preserved it on my website. His service pack is honestly the least fussy in my opinion and includes main system updates.
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Oh crud...WPS Office no longer works on Windows XP!
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Windows 98 throwing errors on startup and setup in VMware and Virtualbox if used on AMD Richland CPU
in Windows 9x/ME
Posted · Edited by FantasyAcquiesce
I am using an Intel chipset. I've never had access to an AMD chipset. The laptop was also a Dell.