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Finally gave this a try tonight, and it works nicely compared to IE 6! My test environment is a VirtualBox VM running 98 SE. Google seems to work well, as well as a few other sites, but several other sites seem broken, but that's due primarily to outdated CSS and JS I think. I think the mobile versions might work better, but I'd like to maybe have the user agent set on a per-site basis. I can do this on modern FF just fine (lots of plugins), but are there any such plugins that are still available for something so old? c

No, it's not! It's out though, and we're in the process of going back. So far, so good c

That's because a wild fire happened near my house, and I had to shut everything down and leave :( It'll be up within the next day ot two, all going well. c

Here's a temporary mirror of Dosghost and DOS Solutions: http://209.65.191.189/ Don't hammer it too hard, as it's hosted by a VM running MS-DOS! Plus, I don't have much bandwidth, so it won't be the fastest. I can't keep it up 24/7, but if it's offline, PM me and I'll fix it. c

Ack! It was a typo! http://209.65.191.189/ This one should work! c

I've decided to put it online for awhile after all, figuring that nobody will probably notice. http://209.65.198.189/ I've created an index page listing the sites, so all you have to do is click the link to the one you want to visit. Many of the download pages in dosghost are still broken, as the filenames of the download pages got mangled somehow (why this didn't happen to any of the others, I don't know), but I plan to fix them. As for the server, using EZ-NOS 2 on top of MS-DOS 6.22, all running in a VM (for added authenticity). This is probably why the download page filenames got mangled (no LFN support). Enjoy! c

Hmm, I guess I'm dumb then This is funny c

@dencorso @jaclaz @xpclient I thought I could have multiple mentions on a single line? Guess not... Anyway, I think you're all right! At first, XP was little more than a slightly tweaked 2000 with some extra features and a fancy UI theme, but later on, and especially after SP2, XP began to evolve well beyond 2000, gaining more advanced security and more modern features (which, I suppose was inevitable since 2000 was EOL'ed in 2010). c

Me! From 2002-2006, XP wasn't the greatest (2000 was better), but by sometime around 2007, XP matured quite nicely, and it was a pleasure to use. Who knows, maybe 10 will mature and become stable and useful someday? I won't hold my breath, though. c

Yeah, I think I remember playing with PeepHole back when the site was live. Speaking of which, with the help of someone on another forum, I was able to get a more-or-less complete offline archive of the site, and have set it up using a DOS-based web server on a VM. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's coming along! So now it won't be going anywhere! I even thought about posting an updated and fixed-up version of it online so it can be available once again, but A) the web archive already serves the original version, and B ) I'm not sure about how to get permission from Mr. Angelich's family, which I'd definitely want to do before I make it public. Oh, well, at least I can enjoy it privately :) c

@jaclaz I'm sorry, I meant the actual files offered up for download, as many of the original links are broken. I have the site itself, thanks to you c

Does anyone know if this site is still online in any form? On a different host, perhaps? The only place I can access it is the Wayback Machine, but it is imperfect, and some things are missing/broken. c

Aw, that's too bad. I never realized the creator of the site died! No wonder the site dropped off the face of the earth in 2007.... RIP, Mr. Angelich! I wonder what he died from? he was only 59! Whatever happened, I hope it was quick and relatively painless.... Anyway, Thanks for the link. Maybe I should figure out how to download the whole site and put it in safe keeping? Does the Archive have a mechanism for this? EDIT: There is one "update": On October 9, 2006 (about a month before the author died), there was a page stating that he'd disabled his forum page. It's just speculation, but it seems like he might've been killed somehow. Car crash, probably. c

Not sure if this is the proper place to post this... I'm starting to get back into vintage PC software again, after concentrating on Macs, and I'm looking up a few of my old sources. One of which was this one: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Unfortunately, the link is dead, and the Way Back Machine has the "teaser" page archived, but nothing else. Does anyone know if the site was moved somewhere? Or did it just disappear, lost to time? EDIT: AHA! It seems I was looking in the wrong time frame, and gave up too soon! I looked at the most recent snapshot that actually has content (July 17, 2006), figuring I had nothing to lose, and snapshot has the home page! Now to see if anything else works.... EDIT #2: link. c

That doesn't seem too good. Is there a known defense against it that one can apply? c

So I've read. I haven't been posting much lately, so I missed out on most of it. How much? Excellent! Where can I get it? Is it free, or paid? I'm curious, much effort, it seems, has been put into getting 98 installed on a modern AMD-based machine, but what about a somewhat older Sandy Bridge PC? I'd imagine it's more possible than with a PC with an AM4-based CPU (or whatever they're called nowadays), but still anything but straightforward (at least there's full support for XP, and probably 2000 ). c

I have no idea. Be that as it may, I just bought a Dell Precision M6800 (Haswell based, so could conceivably run XP minimally with some hacks), and it is coming with Windows 7. I could go with 10, but, eh... 7 is enough for me, and it still has 2 years yet before EOL (and people will probably devise ways of extending it and keeping it relatively up to date, as done with XP). I won't touch 10 with a 10 foot pole (pun intended ), unless it's quarantined within a VM. c

Not to disappoint, but Apple builds most of their stuff in China too. Some of their higher end stuff gets built in other places, but the vast majority of their low to mid range products come from factories in China. And a 7 year old iMac being more current than a modern PC? a 2010 iMac would still be using a Core 2 Duo CPU, maybe a first gen i5 or i7, and, on paper, is significantly less advanced than many newer PCs (and Macs). That being said, My 10 year old MacBook (bought new) ran XP better than most laptops did at the time, and the fact that it can still run Windows 10 decently is quite nice. Also, for the most part, if you can get all the drivers to install, Windows under Boot Camp should perform just fine, and power consumption shouldn't be much different than OS X's (that being said, I have noticed that the CPU under Windows tends to run a bit hotter). c

That's good! c

Not sure about ATMFD.DLL, but the rest would seem to be related to the NT kernel. I'm checking to see if this patch will be released for XP 64-bit. The last time there was a major bug like this, they did release an emergency patch, so it stands to reason they may do the same in this case. c

This could be useful for running XP on newer hardware where no XP-native drivers don't exist (newer Kaby Lake or whatever, for instance). Any chance something like this could be made for XP 64-bit? c

Yes, I've been following that, as Macs are 100% affected as well as virtually *all* PCs (I use mainly Macs for day-to-day stuff). What a *great* way to start the new year, with a computer apocalypse!! Be that as it may, POS 2009 will likely see a fix for this, but since it's so big, will it work on plain XP? On the other hand, since it requires an almost complete rewrite of the kernel's address space handling, maybe MS will decide to EOL POS 2009 two years early? c

It's not really a huge problem, as everything seems to work fine otherwise, but if anyone knows of a way to fix the problem, that would be most excellent. Thanks! c

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but it's mine, so... I already have XP x64 running on my 2009 Mac Pro (it runs quite well for the most part, except I keep getting random BSoDs related to disk.sys), so it must be possible. Meanwhile, I gave up trying to get XP x64 to run on my MacBook Pro directly, so I compromised and put in a VM instead. It's not 100% perfect (there's some heavy software I can't run), but it works well enough. However, I would still like to get it working, if only to say I can. c

I think I remember seeing a few instances of XP in the wild lately, but I can't remember exactly where :/ Nevertheless, as 16 year-old operating systems go, it's far from extinct, a fact proven by our numerous recently reported sightings. on a somewhat related note, I remember seeing Windows 2000 Advanced Server in the wild once, about 10 years ago. it was still being supported then, but even so, actually finding it was quite rare even then, since the vast majority of people had already long since switched to XP. Except me, of course (from 2004-2006, I ran either XP, 2000 or 98 as my main OS, depending on what computer I was using (I had an old eMachines at one point, and with a 466 MHz Celeron, 256 MB of RAM and an 8 GB hard drive, XP was not fun; 2000 ran okay, but it was clearly meant for 98 first and foremost). c