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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:af0d0aa4-7793-443d-83db-7697477d19e5 AT p16g2000vbs DOT googlegroups DOT com...
>
> Win9x won't barely run, if at all, on modern hardware and
> isn't even half as well supported, in apps or drivers, as XP.
>

It's not dead yet...

This is basic OS software for the machine this post is from.  I've also
installed most other official and unofficial Win98 updates from MGDX'
website.

Win98 SE
Nvidia drivers - Tihiy patched
KernelEx
SESP4 - unofficial SP2 beta 4 for Win98
NUSB - native USB drivers for Win98

I'm using this hardware.  The Neo-F motherboard is *incompatible* with
Windows 98 according to the manufacturer.  Notice the Solid State Disk
drive.  Win98 doesn't support SATA.  It's in IDE emulation mode through the
BIOS.  Even with v86 mode-switching it pumps multiple GBs per second.
Notice the video card.  Official drivers for it for Win98 are not available.
It gets near 500fps in Q3A if framerate is uncapped.  I had to disable the
onboard soundcard and ethernet since there were no Win98 drivers available.
I'm using other cards I had that work with Win98.  I recently updated from
1GB to 4GB.  I had to switch the xms manager in DOS.  I'm now using
Japheth's HIMEMX.  I tried a number of others.  I didn't test FDXXMS or
XMGR.  Memory is capped to 1GB for Win98.

AMD X2 5600+ 2.8Ghz AM2
MSI K9N Neo-F
EVGA Nvidia 7960GT 512MB
OCZ Sata II 64GB SSD
Logitech MX-518
4GB memory

I'm running this current non-Windows 98 software (via KernelEx).  Opera is
very fast.  Blink-of-eye fast on this machine.  Faster than the Google
Chrome ads on TV, literally.  The machine is a few years old now.

Opera 11.01
Mozilla FireFox 3.6.13 and 3.5.16
Java 6 update 23
Adobe Flash 10,1,102,64
OpenOffice 3.2

Hmm, it seems they've updated Flash to 10,2,152,26.  I'll test it later.

Info on running Win98 on modern hardware:
http://www.msfn.org/board//index.php?act=ST&f=91&t=95815

KernelEx - allows various NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 software to work on Win98:
http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/

Win98 updates, such as unofficial SP2 beta 4 and native USB, via
MGDX/Axcel216 update site:
http://www.mdgx.com/


The things "missing" from Win98 are:

-drivers for certain hardware, esp. motherboard integrated soundcards,
ethernet, winmodems
-possibly video card drivers, there are some patched versions
-SATA drivers for Win98
-multi-core cpu support in the OS

The KernelEx developers said supporting XP drivers would be a problem.

HTH,


Rod Pemberton