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Steven W
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2014-05-15 07:05 »

I thought I had done something to Opera 10.63 earlier, it stopped showing PNG images. I told it to reload a few of them and then it seemed okay. Perhaps changing the files out may have some minor consequences.

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2014-05-15 10:33 »

Here is what we need to do, granted the files that are used is old and microsoft has hotfixes for some of the ones thats in VMM32.VXD and also the Main file which is VMM.VXD. We can use VxDLIB to rebuild the VMM32.VXD with the updated english files and maybe try and patch the VMM.VXD hotfix version. Just a thought.

98 Guy

2014-05-15 14:02 »

Note that Dencorso's post (#132) where he talks about the removal of the discussion of the memory patch has itself been removed!

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118097- ... ram/page-6

It's no longer there at the end of that thread. Why do users put up with games like that by the moderators? Why are they so anal about an OS that has long since been of any interest to Micro$oft?

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2014-05-15 15:18 »

It's simple. Because they are the fools of MSFN. :relaxed:

Would be good if you can please continue the MSFN fools discussion in the fools of MSFN thread. Not because you are not allowed to do it in this thread but because that specific thread gets read by the idiots at MSFN so your words get more exposure over there.

If you wish to continue it right in this thread, that, of course, is fine too. :)

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2014-05-15 16:09 »

it's not as simple as it looks, i just doing examination of his VMM.VXD, he changed 84 Bytes and added 16 bytes.
But first i have to figure out what he did with it, if i succeed to truly understand what he did i'll be able to make a patcher, legal patcher - without M$ files.

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2014-05-15 16:16 »

I know that HxD has a feature that can compare to files and show differences. It works on 98 too. If we could pinpoint what needed changed, well, we'd have the keys to the kingdom so to speak:

http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

Use Analysis -- File-compare--Compare and press F6 to jump to the next change. If compared to another file with a different language, differences in the error messages, et cetra could be ignored. Obviously, VxDLIB could come in handy too.

Thinking out loud:

Perhaps a clean versions of the needed files off a 98 SE install disc would be handy. The German versions might be even handier.

RFMaster

2014-05-15 16:30 »

^Steven W

That's is exactly what i did.

98 Guy

2014-05-15 16:42 »

> it's not as simple as it looks, i just doing examination of his VMM.VXD,
> he changed 84 Bytes and added 16 bytes.

VMM.VXD does not exist on a win-98se system - not even on the CD (with all cab files expanded).

The original Win-98se VMM32.VXD is 475,084 bytes. The modded file is 923,802 bytes and appears to have a creation/modified date of Oct 12/2002. The VMM32.VXD that my system was using before I replaced it with the mod has a size of 928,888 and "unknown" creation date, and a mod date of March 16, 2014. But it's clear that these modded files existed as early as January 2010.

RFMaster

2014-05-15 16:55 »

^98 Guy
VMM.VXD is VMM32.VXD without additional stuff.

98 Guy

2014-05-15 17:40 »

> VMM.VXD is VMM32.VXD without additional stuff.

If VMM.VXD is just dropped into /system/vmm32, how does win-98 even know that it exists? Is it called from the modded VMM32.vxd? Or does Windows automatically load anything in /system/vmm32 ?

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