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I think I made the mistake of using option 2 on a 2GHz machine... Now it takes ~ 3 minutes to boot, the usb wifi adapter wifi manager application crashes after 5 minutes... and the system performace is slow, overall. This is on a 2GHz celeron w/640MB RAM, and a fully tested hard drive/ram... My testbed for these sorts of things. Seeing the newly released 1-16-06 release, I'll have to test it out and see if any issues are due to some of the new files (however, I doubt it, and it's probably related to ndis.vxd). Also, msgsvr32 crashes at random... but I have always had that crash on ALL WinMe systems I have ever used... even in vmware.

v3.5 is in the works. I've just aquired a 2GHz celeron machine, of which I put ~$80 into to make into a decent testbed machine. Here's my current list of ideas for v3.5: *Will include a batch script to silently install Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, as well as several updates. *Will use my 'BHT' launcher application, instead of the graphics-intensive launcher from the last version. *Will NOT use the Options Pack, as I've only observed problems with it more times than not. (IE: directX installation fails, IE installation fails, random errors on bootup after installation of the pack) *Will include individual packages, such as IE6SP1, DirectX, and various other packages. *Will be smaller than the last version, and compressed using RAR, set to BEST+SOLID+Recovery Record. *The ISO should NOT be as large as the previous release. My website has gone from 100GB/month transfer, up to 1TB/month transfer... gotta love Dreamhost.com. I'll be distributing from my site, rapidshare, and possibly bittorrent. I do not have a release date as of yet, as I'm creating the pack from scratch, so as to remove all the bloat that cropped up in the last release (344MB ISO...)

I've experimented with this. It does not work. Try installing a program that says 'designed for Windows XP'. Come back with the results. I doubt it'll run.

Merry Xmas. I'll have a new system by the end of the week, and will be retiring this machine (AMD AthlonXP 2500+, 1.5GB DDR400.... not that old), and be using it with Win9x/Linux/Vista OS's. It seems I'll be using Windows XP x64 and regular XP Pro on the new system... Basically, I cannot guarantee a new version of the Win98 Power Pack until sometime after new years. In either case.... Merry XMas, and a happy new year. And to those that are utterly P-C at this time of year, Happy Holidays.

****, I can't wait! I'm a fan of the Mindows project, and I have to say, this sounds a hell of a lot more amazing. I'm looking forward to this

I've got a strange problem. I've got a Win98SE installation with a previously-applied 98se2me, and the latest (2.1a) SP. For some really strange reason, my double-click function is now pre-set to default to Search, or Find... this is not useful. Here's a screenshot of the problem: Also, the My Documents link on the desktop is missing its icon, and WILL NOT launch the correct folder. In this screenshot, you can see that I had to make a shortcut directly to the folder, just to access it. I'll be trying this out on a vanilla 98SE install, in vmware, as well... This is mearly a heads up for all 98se2me users that haven't updated their copy of 98se2me in a while, and apply this new SP. EDIT: Oh yeah, and the start button/start menu DOESN'T WORK AT ALL. I click the start button, and it stays depressed, but nothing shows up... (as you can see in the above screenshots). Use of TaskManager is the only way to reboot from within the virtual machine.

yeah... either this subforum should be renamed, or more should be created... Renamed: Unofficial Win9x Service Packs OR Unofficial Windows 98 Gold/SE Service Pack & Unofficial Windows Me Service Pack & Unofficial Win9x Mods I'd rather have it all in one place, as it's very convienient... and there's really not too many projects going on to justify separate subforums for them.

Ah, good. I was worried about some of the bugs in the 2.1 release thread. Hope this is the end-all solution for 2.1. I'll be testing this as soon as I restore the rest of my programs (reinstalled OS, re-partitioned drives to allow for REAL DOS 7.1 and Win9x installation ).

Starting from step 2, you could also do the following, which is much easier and less time-consuming: 2) Download Virtual Floppy drive, write the bootdisk image to the virtual floppy drive. This will create an image file for you. 3) Set virtual floppy drive as floppy drive in Qemu manager, or floppy disk image. I find this solution might be a bit better, as it is essentially transferring the image from the executable directly back into a raw data image file. This way, you can still access the file as if it was a floppy drive... I dunno, it's just another option.

The only reason why I said anything was because I own a copy of the game, and only recently found the site that I mentioned... I got my copy with my first Windows-based PC - A Sony VAIO PCV-100, back in February 1997. ****, that machine was a piece of crap...

I'm also interesting in whether there will be a new version anytime soon, as I'm prepping the Windows 98 Power Pack compilation yet again, and I want to get all the latest, stable apps integrated into it.

It's up on MajorGeeks. I'll be updating the Windows 98 Power Pack in a few days. I should note that my BHT 2.0 Lite, which was up on MajorGeeks earlier this week, has been designed with Win98 users in mind. It is a utility compilation with everything you could possibly need... Except for extra bandwidth on my website... which is costing me dearly. Anyway, Thanks again, Gape!

it's just easier to deal with microsoft... 1-888-571-2048 Deal with it. In the worst case, they'll give you a new product key...

whoa... deleting the sfc*.dll files doesn't cause problems? Well then... looks like my next install will be without sfc!

Here... read and download and enjoy to your heart's content -- http://www.3dmmstudio.co.uk/ Basically, you can grab the full app off this site, as it's considered Abandonware now. Some hackers figured out all the formats, and now you can create and import your own characters, music, scenes, and whatnot... there's a huge community playing this game still... and it works on XP.

Why run 98? Because I don't actually run it... I mean, I use Virtual machines, and some old hardware from my collection, here and there... but I really don't use it, because I have better things to do with my time than fix problems with new hardware and old software... I do, however, try to help out this community with Win98 compilations... I guess I help some people....

v3.1 will not exist. It has been renamed 3.5, and will become available sometime late this month.

Take a look at the about section of Freedos.org: http://freedos.org/freedos/about/ The FreeDOS project began in 1994 as a small project called PD-DOS (see above link mentioned). At the time, DR-DOS's source code wasn't available, but once it was, pretty much full-compatibility of MS-DOS apps became apparent in FreeDOS. I remember running Free-DOS on an old laptop, around 1998, and having trouble running any MS-DOS- based software. Now-a-days, it seems that the inclusion of DR-DOS code has made is possible to mimic MS-DOS with fully GPL'd code. That system, to clarify, had 4MB of RAM, and probably was not suited to run FreeDOS anyway.

I realize the fact that it is a PowerPC... It could still be NT-based. Then again, seeing as all the xbox360's OS has to do, really, is negotiate media traffic, manage some sort of database software, and online connections... Seems a bit more intuitive than WinCE could ever be.

As far as I know, after snooping around in the decompressed kernel segments of the xbox, I can gladly say that the xbox implementation of the NT kernel are separate from the BIOS-style code. Essentially, the kernel is a directX-native kernel... that is to say, that the kernel is sorta a hybrid NT/DX kernel, which includes direct access to all devices in the system, as well as direct GPU access - hence, this is the reason why the xbox hardware can be pushed further than most PC hardware. The GPU's power is completely at the programmer's fingers, in that it will take in as many ASM-based GPU instructions as it can handle in its hybrid GF3/4 architechture. What I'm getting at, is that the NT Kernel is still there... but it's so heavily modified with DirectX kernel calls, that it isn't windows 2000's kernel anymore. I wonder if the Xbox360's kernel is based on embedded XP, or embedded Vista (most likely a subversion of Vista's kernel). Then again,Vista's kernel may be a fork of the Xbox's original kernel. It would make sense to integrate DirectX into the kernel, to simplify kernel calls, and reduce the latencies associated with DX processing and translation....

That's what i thought... just wondering if anyone knows, for a fact, that the win2k embedded kernel was transferred into the xbox... I'm probably more skilled in xbox modding/fixing, than windows 2000's internal working knowledge...

I'm just wondering, after noticing the "Windows 2000 Embedded" logo in a pre-SP, beta of 2k's Explorer.exe file, if Win2k Embedded was ever released as anything other than the Xbox's OS? I'm just curious, as I've never actually seen an embedded device that uses the win2k kernel, aside from the Xbox...

Huh... I didn't know that E/OS was publicly available, let alone released... guess I'm behind the times somewhat. I'll take a look at it, and see what can be improved upon, as long as it doesn't take all day to accomplish...

I just wanted to give you guys a heads up - there's a great utility that offers easy patching and fixing of the https files... for more info, take a look at: DjLizard.net, and look for "Dial-a-Fix".

I don't think it'll be very possible, but then again, if there's a will, there's a way. Count Me In! Things to consider: ReactOS Wine Linux Kernel