In message , 98 Guy writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
(Crossposted to the '98 'group in case anyone there knows a link
to it.)
Yes, I did not see the original post.
Look people - don't do stupid things like post win-98 questions to ONLY
a win-XP newsgroup.
Right Casey?
To be fair, he thought this one was dead. (I myself hadn't seen any
posts here for ages.)
Unfortunately, as Paul points out, 98 - though no longer available,
to a first approximation - is still Microsoft's property, so _not_
abandonware; thus the site you found, as well as the tenth
anniversary edition and other similar, are _not_ legal.
Microsoft is a criminal organization. They have been found guilty of
violating various business laws and practices around the world over the
years. So I have no problems posting links to their software, telling
people how to get old copies of their software, etc.
What you might think and what is legal are not the same thing; just
because they may have done criminal things, does not mean it is legal to
commit crimes against them. (In other words, two wrongs don't make a
right. Having said that, I share many of your views!)
In this case, what you are looking for is he
Not necessarily. See below.
[probably useful links snipped - see 98 Guy's post]
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There never was anything called the "Windows 98 10'th anniversary
edition". This AutoPatcher98 is what you're looking for - it was
Not by Microsoft, of course; soporific definitely gave it that name.
originally started by an MSFN user named Soporific back in August 2006.
Autopatcher was superceeded by the "Unofficial Windows 98 Second Edition
Service Pack 3.33" created (or currently maintained and periodically
updated) by MSFN user "ProblemChild":
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/61749-98-se-sp-332/
http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/
That is now the recommended way to take a new install of win-98se and
give it all the various enhancements, updates, patches and fixes ever
made from Micro$oft and then taken further with files made or modified
by others.
From the above sentence, it sounds to me as if you're describing
something that you apply to a system after you've done a new install.
The - doubly illegal because as well as 98SE itself it had other things
on it - "tenth anniversary edition" was an ISO of a self-booting CD,
which if booted on a bare system, would install 98SE, including drivers
for the majority of the hardware that had come out in the intervening 10
years (including a reliable universal USB driver), as well as -
optionally, you could choose which you wanted - some other things, some
of which were cracked commercial things.
For those that are interested, I've posted file-locker links to various
MSDN cd's from 1998 through 2002, starting with Windows 95 OEM SR2 +
Original Retail version.
Here is a complete list:
[again, see Guy's post]
Most useful.
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We shall never - never! - allow foreigners to run our economy. They might cure
it. (George Mikes, "How to be Decadent" [1977].)