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FamiTracker
M'kay so everyone has a Windows 98 PC and uses famitracker on it.... Right?
Anyway it's easy to get versions 0.4.1 and under working on win9x, you just need to download [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/]KernelEx (A kernel extender allowing to run more applications) and done!.
However versions 0.4.2 and over won't work still. You will get an error about AttachConsole or something
You will need to get the [url=http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/wiki/Help:Contents#Download]Kext addon (also known as Kstub).
After that you will need to copy Kext's files into the KernelEx folder and open the core.ini in notepad and edit the "contents=" line to add the version of Kext (e.g. contents=Kstub822,std,kexbases,kexbasen)
Save it and after that you got to open Kext's .ini file (Known as KstubXXX.ini the X's is the version of Kext you have e.g. mine is Kstub822.ini)
You need to find the line that has [Kernel32.dll] and underneath it, add
AttachConsole=f1e
Save that and restart your pc
Tada! You can now run the latest famitracker on Windows 98SE
ENJOY!
Famitracker is now compiled with Visual Studio 2008, according to the MSDN document, Visual Studio no longer officially supports Windows 98 starting from 2008, although there is still an option /OPT:WIN98 but it has no effect.
It doesn't means all the things compiled with VS2008 won't run on Windows 98, it only means they don't guarantee most of the programs can run. Perhaps someone who can geekly downgrade the whole project with libraries and drivers to a lower version of Visual Studio that supports Windows 98, such as 2005, 2003 or even older.
By the way, I'm very admire to VC++ 6.0, some of its programs can run from Windows 95 to newest Windows 8.
[quote=Kippykip][quote=Im_a_Track_Man]Why not also install it from a pair of floppies?[/quote]
Why the hell not? [/quote]
The newest Famitracker.exe is 1.32MB(1396736 bytes), a floppy disk is 1.44MB(acturally 1.38MB, 1457664 bytes) so it's possible to put the main exe in, but only the main exe, there would be no spaces to put Famitracker.fcm help file. You need another disk for it.
However we can reduce the size of the main exe to 1.2MB by changing some compile options in compiler, and then compress it with shells to squezzes main exe to 580KB. If hacking the exe is possible, it can be smaller by strip out the junk data which Microsoft's mysterious intent, remove useless sections and delete unused data, then it's possible to put both in one disk.
If you don't bother 7-zip compress the whole chunk of package, we can even include the Demo Songs folder.
There's a program called ajsplit so you could zip famitracker up and split the zip file, that's if you wanna put it on floppies but I just use the internet on the 98 PC itself
Or you could get it on another pc and transfer it on a usb and install the usb driver (The usb driver is about 300kb so it fits on a floppy)
