(failed) Ryzen and Fall of the Roman Empire... sort of...

[ragnargd]

1 hour ago, jaclaz said:

And AGAIN, there is NO PATCH whatever in Usher's method.

IT DOES NOT INVOLVE ANY PATCH, only some minor modifications to SYSTEM.CB (only useful in Safe Mode).

jaclaz

And for everone to see: I'm the source of this fake news, because i didn't read enough.

What i used was/is xrayers method, that involves w98iopat.exe (which DOES patch a binary, in this case, IO.SYS)

I correct this in my old posts whereever possible, but unfortunately, once the djin is out of the bottle...

Edited August 24, 2017 by ragnargd

[98SE]

2 hours ago, ragnargd said:

And for everone to see: I'm the source of this fake news, because i didn't read enough.

What i used was/is xrayers method, that involves w98iopat.exe (which DOES patch a binary, in this case, IO.SYS)

I correct this in my old posts whereever possible, but unfortunately, once the djin is out of the bottle...

 

We know about that thread... the w98iopat.exe was what we didn't want thus the so called fake news "Usher" method.

As Usher would say, "Yeah!".

Edited August 24, 2017 by 98SE

[Damnation]

Would anyone want to use Unraid with hardware pass-through to run Windows 98?

Or is the objective in this case to have windows 98 running native without any virtualization at all?

[rloew]

Test 3 and 4 will return exactly the same result. Test 4 is redundant.

[LoneCrusader]

14 hours ago, ragnargd said:

For anyone interested, and capable of reading german: https://www.cbo-do.de/

They have a lot of old stuff, and by my impression, have a good quality control, and are a reliable trader. Or i was lucky...

I've dealt with them before on eBay. Scored a couple of Gigabyte GA-G1975X boards. Have one set up here somewhere with a 3.73GHz CPU + 8GB of Kingston HyperX DDR2 RAM and running Windows 95/98SE. This was part of my "Intel chipset testing" I've mentioned in other threads.

[ruthan]

Quote

 

Would anyone want to use Unraid with hardware pass-through to run Windows 98?

Or is the objective in this case to have windows 98 running native without any virtualization at all?

 

   Its working, no paid patches needed, it just working, emulated HW is most common, issues could be some videomode support, i didnt tested it so much, but Unraid / KVM i thing have sometimes some issues with bad videomodes detection and adjustment, but this not nothing unfixable by further QEMU or Unraids updates.

  I didnt any performace test, but seems quicker that physical machines with ancient drivers for some tasks..

Some Video:

 

Edited August 26, 2017 by ruthan

[rloew]

One step away from the Abyss.

I have a working Hard Disk AHCI Driver.

Unfortunately, I do not have the Optical Drive Code working yet.

[pangoomis]

I wish I could test it.

[rloew]

I could sell you one but I cannot guarantee when I will solve the Optical Drive problem.

[pangoomis]

I do not use Optical Drives, so that's not important for me.  I am truly interested, considering the testing I've done with you on e-mail.

[rloew]

For now I can send you a copy with the Optical Drive code disabled so you may be able to use a DOS AHCI CDROM Driver.
The current version supports Drives between  10GB and 144PB. Specify the number of AHCI Ports per controller, usually 4 or 6.
The price is $21.00 US.

[rloew]

One step closer to the Abyss.

Intel just announced that they will stop providing CSM in 2020. They will only provide UEFI.

[pangoomis]

Can't CSM be emulated in bootx64.efi kinda like PLOP boot manager?

[rloew]

Yes. But it one more workaround that will be needed. That is why I said "one more step" instead of "the end is near".

[pangoomis]

Win9x is one big workaround anyways, if you really think about it

So were programs such as DOS4GW.