I wonder if XP will become abandonwa now windows 98 tenth anniversary edition quest

(Crossposted to the '98 'group in case anyone there knows a link to it.)

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:42:46 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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I have come across the "Windows 98 tenth anniversary edition"; that's
around 700 - it fills a CD to the brim. It includes quite a lot of
patches, the universal USB driver, some extra utilities, and - for some,
its main advantage - drivers for a large proportion of the hardware that
came out after 98SE.

Unfortunately, as Paul points out, 98 - though no longer available, to a
first approximation - is still Microsoft's property, so _not_
abandonware; thus the sire you found, as well as the tenth anniversary
edition and other similar, are _not_ legal.

Which is a pity. The tenth anniversary edition (made by someone called
soporific) is nicely presented.


Do you mind posting a link to this?

Unfortunately, it seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth.
There seems to be some evidence (though some is in posts from me so
dubious) that it's also known as UBCD - that's unattended boot CD, not
to be confused with universal boot CD which is different; if you put

UBCD "soporific"

as your Google search string you'll find some things. (If you don't put
soporific in you'll get lots of links to the other UBCD.)

As well as the 98SE itself, which as we've agreed is proprietary anyway,
soporific put into the tenth anniversary a few cracked other commercial
items (such as the _full_ 98lite), so I think it was only ever available
via torrents and that sort of thing.

I do have a legal Win98 copy, but I would like to get my hands on those
patches. I did do some of the upgrades and patches to 98 back when MS
still supported it, but being on dialup, I dont think I have all of
them.

One of the links near the top of the Google search results from the
above includes links to about seven or eight "packs", but I think
they're driver packs rather than patches. I'm not sure the 10AE actually
had _that_ many patches, actually.
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(One of the links searching for 10AE threw up is
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...on/DmCIKwqzlHw
(http://bit.ly/1gZEHo9), but that just crashes both my Firefox25+addons
and myIE8, so I don't know if it's anything useful - probably not,
probably just a post _about_ it, quite possibly by me!)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

There I was, sitting in a glum mood - 'Cheer up, things could be worse',
he said, so I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.