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Is there any browser left for Win98se?
Bill in Co wrote:
I thought I made it clear in my last post that you can't install any version of FF 3.x without having Kex. Then he must have KernelEx installed. If he did, then he could have tried Firefox 10.0.2 (at least). Instead all he claimed was 3.5. By "too limited", I meant the bigger picture, not necessarily the "inherent" limitations of the OS: Win-98 is inherently a WIN32 OS. What it lacks are the API functions that have been added to the NT line, and many of the more useful ones are being replicated by KernelEx, with new ones being added via "stubs". I can't even install several good (and even older) fundamental audio and video restoration apps Heck, even something as good as the near oldest version of Adobe Audition (which improved on Cool Edit Pro) can't be used, I've just spent about 15 minutes trying to locate old versions of Adobe Audition for download - which I can't find. What I can find are various versions of CoolEdit Pro: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/cool-edit-pro/ I downloaded "Cool Edit Pro 2000 1.1" and installed it, then I installed the "Cool Edit Pro 2000 Audio Cleanup plug-in 1.1". After installing the plugin and running CoolEdit, it opens and loads the wav file "solace.wav" (from the movie "The Sting" ?) - a 10 second piano clip that contains pops. I fool around with the Transform - Noise Reduction - Click/Pop eliminator, and I remove the pops, and when I play the clip I can't hear them. So at this point I've satisfied myself that I can perform some basic level of audio restoration. What else you do, and what this version of Cool Edit can or can't do, I don't know. I could spend a couple of hours downloading this: Adobe Audition CS6 v5.0.2 build 7 LS7 http://avaxhome.ws/software/software...g/edi3212.html From he http://depositfiles.com/folders/IOOO7XHN9 And then follow the instructions to get the hack/crack working, but that's too much work just to (possibly) prove to you that I can run the latest version of Audition under win-98. My cursory searching for the earliest versions of Audition (released in August 2003) indicates that it was compatible with Windows 98. And even if it wasn't, it would almost certainly be able to run under Win-98 with Kex using "win-2000 compatibility" mode. and there is nothing available that is installable on W98 that can do all it can do. Have you tried to install what you have (presumably some version of Adobe Audition) on a win-98 system with Kex? The other thing I don't miss about W98 was the (much) more frequent blue screens (I mean, with all my varous software installations and customizations), which I rarely see with XP. Blue screens are the result of trying to run win-98 on ancient hardware with buggy drivers with 32 mb of ram. If you've ever installed and run win-98 on any hardware circa 2004 and later (with 2 ghz P4 CPU with at least 256 mb of ram and a decent Nvidia or ATI video card) you too would experience trouble-free operation. I've stated here MANY TIMES that win-9x/me got a bad rap because it was pushed out to consumers at a time when computing hardware was in a horrible state. Hard drives did not auto-correct for errors, the new AGP bus was still being worked out, video card drivers were buggy - and on and on. By the time XP came out for the general consumer, the hardware standards were raised far beyond what Microsoft called for with Win-98. Far too many games played with user accounts, rights, ownerships and permissions. I enjoy not having to deal with that **** on Win-98. I have Administrator access to everything as the sole user, so that seems to be a non issue for me Try to edit the hosts file on a win-7 computer. It's an agonizing process - even if you ARE the administrator. And the limited USB and SATA support. I notice that you had nothing to say about my comments about USB and SATA support... |
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