*unofficial* Win98SE service pack and MAME

[krick]

I'm currently running Windows 2000 on my mame cabinet but I'm going to switch back to Windows 98SE.  I was wondering if anyone has had problems using the *unofficial* Win98SE service pack with MAME or Mamewah...

http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html

We use it on a few old machines where I work and it doesn't seem to cause any problems.  However, we don't run MAME at work.

[Xiaou2]

ive just found this great update, and its been running on my system for a few weeks.  no probs with mame.  ive ran a few times here and there.. tho havnt tested extensively yet.

 

[Grasshopper]

I've used it on my machine with no problems. It's basically all the latest windows updates lumped together plus a few extras such as XP icons.

However, it didn't solve a USB problem I have. When I download pictures from my digital camera using the supplied software (Fuji), the computer sometimes hangs.  However, if I ignore the supplied software and treat the camera as a storage device, and just copy the pictures to my hard disk I don't have any problems.

[Xiaou2]

does this solve the 135 gig hd limit?   i installed 250 gig hds before the update - so had to partition them to the limit,  thus loss of much space.

[krick]

does this solve the 135 gig hd limit?

Nope...

http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm

The FAT 32 Limitation (124.55 GiB / 127.53)

Although many of the limitations imposed by the FAT 32 file system are outlined above, this particular limitation is actually imposed by one of the disk tools included with Microsoft Windows

[krick]

i installed 250 gig hds before the update - so had to partition them to the limit,  thus loss of much space.

You should be able to split them into two partitions, each less than 137BG, and not lose any space in windows 98.

However you need:

a) Hardware that supports LBA48 addressing.  Usually via an add-in card like the Promise Ultra100 TX2.

b) Software that will let you create partitions on very large drives.  Usually the software that comes with the drive.