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.
>
> ----------------------------
>
> 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!