Windows 98 and the 4gb file-size limitation

[hans101]

I don't know why someone didn't take the FAT32 filespec and find *ONE* extra byte somewhere in the file table entries to use as the 5'th byte of the file-size parameter.

there are an extension to FAT32 that is supported in DR-DOS that is called "FAT+" supporting files up to 256 GB

it would be wonderful if it would be supported in Windows98 too, I don't know how hard it is to make win98 support it though.

Some info at dr-dos wiki at http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.FATplus

it links to the FAT+ specification there, but freedos seems to have moved its pages since then, so look at archive.org:

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080328132134/http://www.fdos.org/kernel/fatplus.txt

[Mijzelf]

As said before in this thread, having a filesystem that supports files bigger than 4GiB is not the problem. You can install NTFS support on W98. But the kernel itself doesn't support bigger files.

[Joseph_sw]

first step would be making unofficial IO.SYS that could handle >4GB files

[jds]

first step would be making unofficial IO.SYS that could handle >4GB files

Actually ... there's a 2G bug in there to deal with, before worrying about 4G! :

Joe.

[Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa]

wsxedcrfv, here is the reality. Downloading commercial media

files that are products are illeagal period, no matter what legal

law is passed, I doubt the people who painstakenly worked on the

projects would appreciate you attempting to download, there hardworks.

Yes it is not worth it, to buy Blu-ray, DVD, or even VCD. I would

go back to laser discs but it is not going to happen, thanks to people

in the States being addicted to portability, ADD syndrome. VCD is

where I draw the line. About Europe, they have been using RGB and

Satelite to pick up US channels, and Canada has a strong media respect.

Ever since DVD was released to the States, streets have been turned

into crime scenes. All of the stores like Blockbuster, Hollywood video, and

even DVD outlit, and video etc has all been shutdown. Yesterday I saw

the last video store on the block shutdown forever. That is how much

piracy and the knowledge of piracy has damaged our communities. Seriously

do you know how creepy it is to walk down a block of unopen stores during

the night? The truth is most lazy cheap people like to watch television.

That is the truth. The only reason people go outside is to buy movies.

Did you even know we are not allowed to upload peoples illustrations

without their permmisions.

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About blu-ray. Blu-ray is based off the idea of having the Raw data

uncompressed via the MPEG-5/MP4 ( which is not even real MPG ) type.

From 1970-2006 RGB ruled the airwaves, VCR's, Film Reels, and whatever.

Television was "television" from Tenchi Color to god **** "Kings View"

flatscreens. After that everybody seems to make everything in wide

screen, which damages culture. Especailly American culture.

Flat fact Blu-ray is not meant for W98. 9X is meant to be GUI consumer

based product. In various nations they have their variant of DOS, UNIX,

AMIGA and even MAC OS. W98 in todays world serves a cheap alternative

for people developing high-end projects for consumer usage. That is all.

I known the Windows/DOS series has been in our blood for the so many

programs we use it for, but you have to realize the 98 is not meant

for brainwashed consumer commercial work no longer.

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About 4-gig downloading. You will just have to upgrade to Windows 2000.

That is it. In fact before 98 I was using W2K to download stuff via

phone wire.

Another flatfact. Consumers believe that newer is better, instead of

believing actual is better. You want to ride with the consumer, then

get something that rivals the consumer archetech way of thinking.

98 is 2d, and floppy disk drives. Standards of limitations, not

standards of whatever.

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Yes I have allways wanted to get a group of programmers, oldschool and

new and get them to work on a perfect Windows Geno-type. Where we can

use all of our DOS programs, W9X, and even W2k, and Nt programs. So

basically you are saying you want to go back to windows 3.0 ( which is

9x built on ( if I am mistaken ) and edit, edit, edit, until the OS is

perfect. Then create a modifier file, that requires a copy of the following

files ( whatever ) from the following OS.

Windows 3

Win 95 Winter

Lisa

NT4

? SP packs.

XP release ???

That would be the legal and legitimate answer to doing what you want.

An installation from the ground up. You could probably even some how

include UNIX, Amiga, and whatever in the upgrade somehow. That is what

and how I dreamed up the perfect OS. I am too a novice programmer, to

even deal with it, and soooo much stuff to do.

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On the horizin, there is a new disc format type that makes Blu-ray

a joke. Look at the four corners of Asia folks, people are still

using the Laser Discs, and various development tools people have

forgotten. So the ultimate answer is ignore Blu-ray completely.

Especially piracy part.

Of course we all want to look cool in front strangers, and what not

requirments.

[jds]

The only reason people go outside is to buy movies.

Eh?! What strange world do you live in?

Anyway, there's the specific requirement for handling BD content (assuming you have the appropriate rights or subject to the fair-use provisions of the copyright act for commercial content, as may be appropriate) and then there's the more general requirement.

For the former, perhaps this software may be some use (no, I've never used this, so caveat emptor, etc.) :

* watch Blu-ray Disc backups without reencoding (PS3) (just select your movie M2TS file

from the original BDMV\STREAM folder (the largest one) and use it with multiAVCHD (or import the whole BDMV folder in RE-AUTHOR mode);

multiAVCHD will split it in 4GB chunks, so you'll be able to transfer it to your external USB disk or USB flash drive.

For the more general requirement, FAT32+ support seems to make the most sense.

Joe.

Edited April 22, 2011 by jds