any interest in reverse engineering ntkern vxd?

Operating Systems DOS/Windows 3.X/9X/ME - Retro Gaming
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@diderius6

would you have any interest in possibly helping reverse engineering ntkern.vxd of windows98 SE? we could potentially improve windows driver model support in windows 98.

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@infuscomus

Yes, this makes a lot of fun.
Years ago I hack VMPOLL.VXD for to work perfect with Qemu
Dietmar

PS: Dont know, for what win98se is good for today. Only for Settlers 2 I like a lot:))…

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you’re right, windows98 is really only good for retro gaming nowadays.

I think it would be nice to get 3D acceleration working in VMWare at least, the VMWare driver doesn’t work in windows98 right now.

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@diderius6

looking at the VMWare driver for XP

vmx_svga.sys doesn’t call too many functions from ntoskrnl/hal - this might work with just an inf mod.

VMwaretools.7z.zip (2.98 MB)

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Is there a github repo that you guys are doing work in? I wouldn’t mind peeking or helping a bit. Settlers 2 I haven’t thought of in years :slight_smile: