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Using this trick I could even activate two more cores in my intel Atom chip. Now I have 3, but Windows can only use 2.
damn those EULA’s!!!!
Actually, im impressed this guy can turn a 30 second talk into 20+ minutes. He must have a PHd
Wow! It works! The other day I saw a guide how to double your RAM! Super awesome!
I just downloaded 20GB of ram! it’s fabulous!
20GB!? Wow!
I thought I was good with 16MB.
Screeenshot: http://www.dansdata.com/images/gz142/softram.png
That reminds me, I’ve never tried to force windows to swap to a compressed drive. Everyone always says don’t do it, but the only thing better than virtual memory is compressed virtual memory…
Well I happen to have a Win95 VM set up….
http://imgur.com/a/ubGUr#CyQEctQ
Windows wants to manage the SWAP but it’s definitely setting it up on the compressed C:\.
What could possibly go wrong!
Didn’t windows 95 detect you were going to do something like this, and leave the swap file on the uncompressed part? Try booting with DOS 6, and take a look…
huh, where did that 3.x UI come out of? I haven’t touched DriveSpace in ever, but I’m curious as to why it’s looking like that.
Curiously, DOS 6.22 can’t see the partition, and it’s version of FDISK recognises it as a non-DOS partition. I don’t recall this back in the day, but I’m guessing DriveSpace changes the partition type code to something previous DOS versions didn’t recognise.
It also would explain why I couldn’t mount the VMDK on OS X.
A dodgy DOS 7 disk I found did recognise the partition properly, and I can confirm that swap file was no where to be found; so it would seem that Windows 95 did create the swap file on the compressed volume!
It’d make sense, you’d be amazed at people deleting the stacker volume file…
According to the Windows 95 Resource Kit:
Source: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b04c8uhrvzYJ:helpdoc-online.com/Windows_95_Resource_Kit__Help_en/Kernel.php+compressed+volume+%22swap%22+file+windows+95&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
From my quick research, Windows 3.1 definitely got upset if set your swap file to be on the compressed volume, so I guess this is an “improvement” of sorts…
Windows 95 really was amazing considering its roots. But as a thing on a thing on a thing.. it can’t compare to NT.
@calvin:
When compressing the C: drive, a “Failsafe.drv” directory is created on the uncompressed part which presumably contains this minimal Windows 3.1 installation and DriveSpace itself.
Sorry, been flat out this weekend so haven’t had a chance to muck around with the VM again.
@Christian is absolutely correct about the FAILSAFE.DRV folder which is created. It has (as far as I can tell) the same minimal Win 3.1 instance that the Windows 95 setup program uses, plus a 16-bit version of DriveSpace and Scan Disk (curious as to why MS chose to use the Character Mode scan disk in Windows for unsafe shutdowns when they had this…).
Years and years ago I did some playing around with the minimal DOSX from the Windows 95 setup and found it fairly interesting. With the right libraries you can certainly make a fairly minimal Windows 3.1 deployment, and run basically any application you like. It starts up very quickly too. I really must have another play with it sometime…
I’ve modified the copied the FAILSAFE.DRV directory and set SYSTEM.INI to boot Ski Free. A copy can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z23kbbiG5JZk9zWWphZ3puVWM/view?usp=sharing
I’m pretty sure it used the same mini run-time that was used for the Windows 95 installation (MINI.CAB), so it’s likely of little use for most people. Very little will run on it (no shell.dll, etc), but could probably boot your Zork port!
And Windows 3.0 and 3.1 to some degree. As they install the bulk of themselves
But sure, just as that ‘demo’ version of 3.0 I found can happily run Zork, they could run as there is no real DLL dependancy needed. Another cool thing about QuickC for Windows.
@Peter Godwin:
Excuse me for kind of “hijacking” the comment area, but your screenshots suggest you’re using a high-density display – if so, would you mind telling me which one it is (size, resolution)?
I use a Dell P2815Q. It’s a 4K display. Highly recommend it if you can get over the 30hz refresh rate @ 4k…