Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DOS Guy Newsgroups: alt.msdos,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: What role does "DOS" play in Windows 95/98? Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:36:20 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4E9CD814.83979BDA@Guy.com> References: <4E9B5A53.392C9558@Guy.com> <4E9C936D.AB209FED@Guy.com> <4E9CBA6A.D249CA86@Guy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: amG2Qc8bYw6HXjTdnxZBRg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.msdos.programmer:297 comp.os.msdos.misc:152 Ross Ridge wrote: > > I am not talking about IDE-compatibility mode ... > > I was. Why? I'm still not sure where you stand then on SATA drivers for win-98. > > The consensus on the win-98/me forum on MSFN.org is that a 512mb > > video card will not work under win-98, regardless what hacked or > > modded driver is used. > > Like I said, there's no fundamental reason why a driver for a 512MB > video card, a real driver, not some hack, couldn't be written for > Windows 98. Ok, I think we misunderstand each other. Yes, your right that anything is possible. In this case, it is not easily possible. There is something that can't easily be overcome by win-98 enthusiasts when it comes to 512 mb video cards. > Some people, I'm guessing like those on the forum you mentioned, > assume that all of video card's memory must be mapped in to the > physical address space somewhere, but that's not in fact the case. No, they know that not all of the video memory is mapped into system memory. > And like I also said, the standard 640x480 16-colour VGA driver > will work any modern video card, since they're all VGA compatible. 16-color VGA is useless if the intent is to run windows. Even Windows 98. > My 1GB ATI 5770 works just fine with Windows 98 and this driver. In 16-color VGA mode? Is that what you're calling "working just fine" ?