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  • Re: Major new development in Windows 98 RAM memory capability patchhas been discovered!

    From R P@ronpenhall@gmail.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Fri Jun 9 08:30:59 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 7:06:09 AM UTC-7, 98 Guy wrote:
    I'm reposting the following to a few newsgroups where I know some people still run win-98 as part of dual-boot setup, or have recently moved away from win-98, or for general knowledge.

    For at least the past 4 years, some windows-98 users have been able to
    use up to 4 gb of ram by using these patches.

    Memory constraints has long been seen as one of the major differences between win-9x/me and the NT line of OS's. But clearly, as this patch indicates, it has been an artificially-imposed constraint by Macro$haft.

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    It appears that some combination of a Windows-98 hot-fix and some
    hacking at least 4 years ago, possibly by some Germans, has resulted in
    a very simple set of 2 files that can allow Windows 98 to use up to 4 gb
    of ram.

    As time goes on we'll learn more about how this patch originated, but it seems to have been circulating in German-language windows forums up
    until now.

    Thanks to Dencorso and his obtuse and irrational censorship as he lords
    over the Windows-98 Forums at MSFN.org, he indicated that such a German patch existed, and he labeled it as "warez". I then began a discussion
    on "FoolsDesign.org" and the location of the patch files was posted
    thanks to a user there. That thread can be found here:

    http://www.foolsdesign.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=607

    Once Dencorso found out about that thread, he removed his own MSFN post where he described his censorship of the topic. He's so anal he even censored himself!

    Why on earth those moderators at MSFN think that Microsoft is in any way concerned about Windows 9x today defies explanation. They are their own worst enemies when it comes to helping advance and grow the Windows
    9x/me enthusiast community. Their censorship efforts do nothing but
    instill a culture of fear and intimidation and diminish the community at MSFN. Hopefully more enthusiasts and win-98 users will discover the
    free and uncensored windows 98 usenet groups and also the software forum
    at foolsdesign.org.

    Are you reading this Dencorso?

    Will you and your other moderators change your ways and allow more free
    and open discussion about how to advance Windows 9x/me - Microsoft be damned?

    Here is a link to the new VMM32.vxd and VMM.vxd files that allow Windows
    98 to use all available ram on any motherboard you have, up to 4 gb:

    http://www.freora.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=license_result&gid=3&bid=3&Itemid=52

    Scroll down to the last item, which is:

    4 GB Hauptspeicher f�r WIN 98SE ( mit vmm98sed.zip )hot!

    But don't click on it. Instead, click on the small little "Download"
    button right beside the "Details" button.

    What you will download is Vmm98sed.zip (about 1mb in size). When you
    unpack it, you will find a reproduction of the Windows directory tree
    that helps tell you where to put these files.

    Inside WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ you will find VMM32.VXD and you will copy that
    file to your own WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, over-writing the existing
    file which you should first rename to VMM32.vxd.old.

    You will also see a subdirectory called VMM32 which contains VMM.VXD
    (which you should copy to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32\ directory, and
    there will be no pre-existing file with that name.

    There is some indicatation that a file called ENABLE.VXD should also be placed in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32\ directory. That file is not
    normally found on win-9x systems, but it is on the win-98 CD. Here is a
    link to that file:

    http://filepost.com/files/98e56ddd/ENABLE.VXD/

    The two files VMM32.VXD and VMM.VXD seem to have been in circulation
    since January 2010 because they were submitted to virustotal.com on that date for malware analysis. That was the first and only time they have
    been seen by Virustotal until I submitted them yesterday. The scan 4
    years ago was negative, and so was my scan, so they are clean as far as
    53 Anti-virus programs are concerned.

    I have varified that they work, as I have 2 gb ram on my system now and Windows System Properties shows 2046 mb available memory.

    Any questions? Comments?

    Post them! No censorship here!
    ITS WORKS! Win98SE booting with 2 GB, only when using the Autoexec XMS patch (with /max=500 dont forget!) and System INI as [386enh] maxFileCache=65536
    -DANKA!
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