<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> In all cases you need to recompile freeldr afterwards.

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> cc Windoz too ^

https://youtu.be/q3Soj5-ULRs Well is this a VLC thing, or system scheduler or other parts of the OS? 😂

Sound is intermittent but as long as I scrub the mouse through the progress bar (VLC has a floating indicator shows the timecode the cursor hovered on the progress bar) music will be played normally

UPVOTE ReactOS sees major update – MM and CC, PnP, I/O, KMDF, NTFS, compiler upgrades https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26075670

Pushing the limits... doesn't seem it will boot on a 2047GiB disk anymore :D

anything >1024GiB even. Just tried 1025G, no go. Exactly 1024G, boots fine.

Regarding the 0.4.14 situation, I wonder if ReactOS Deutschland could provide a reward of 0.001 BTC (~43 USD) per regression bugfix. This would provide an additional boost either for new volunteers to join in or for the usual ones to get an additional pay. Seeing as ReactOS' Bitcoin wallet currently has about 4 BTC (~170,000 USD) it would mean a cost of 0.1 BTC (~4300 USD). I don't know if that's too much and who decides that.

Pushing the limits... doesn't seem it will boot on a 2047GiB disk anymore :D

Disk or partition?

Just doing a whole disk. Can I even make a partition less than the whole disk via the ReactOS installer? I actually don't know off hand.

Not quite the nicest way to enter a size, but it works :D

1TiB partition on a 2TiB disk: works

Not quite the nicest way to enter a size, but it works :D

New design for the installer?

I feel something diferent

Change to 1048577MiB: doesn't boot

the 1TiB mark is apparently some hard limit at least with FAT. Didn't used to be this way (pre-MM?) btrfs still doesn't work, as has been the case for ~3 months or so

New design for the installer?

same design it's had for ages.

same design it's had for ages.

Oh sorry

I usually just hit <ENTER> through it all so I didn't quite know if custom partition sizes was an option :P

the 1TiB mark is apparently some hard limit at least with FAT. Didn't used to be this way (pre-MM?) btrfs still doesn't work, as has been the case for ~3 months or so

Iirc, fat32 limit was 2 tb. I have windows 98 manual at my parents' home, I could have a look when I manage to go there

yeah Win9x had a 2TiB limit on it. I made a Windows 95 VM once with a 2TiB system volume just because I could. :P

It's not especially difficult to make FAT go beyond the conventional limits, Linux supports at least up to 256K clusters and 16TiB FAT32 volumes Windows NT used to allow 64K clusters on FAT16 to go up to 4GiB volumes with it. Dunno if it ever supported such on FAT32.

Honestly exFAT is far superior to trying to wedge FAT into such volume sizes. It'd be interesting if ReactOS one day has an exFAT install option :p

It's not especially difficult to make FAT go beyond the conventional limits, Linux supports at least up to 256K clusters and 16TiB FAT32 volumes Windows NT used to allow 64K clusters on FAT16 to go up to 4GiB volumes with it. Dunno if it ever supported such on FAT32.

The main problem with fat32 and large partitions was a lot of wasted space. Even at 32 GB, it started using 32 kB clusters. So huge clusters meant that winamp 2.xx + milkdrop passed from around 10 to 40 used MB

Yeah, that's where exFAT has a nice advantage in.

hmm. PCem got Pentium 2 emulation... ReactOS is actually working on it. Though I can only describe the experience as "glacial" compared to my usual snappy qemu testing xD

Someone tips off Phoronix?

About our latest blog post.

he will notice soon enough

Mentioned him on Twitter but no result still.

that just proves that he is a human in the end and not a robot as many suspect

He could be a replicant 🤪

I'm idly wondering what will happen if I try to install ReactOS on top of a Windows Me system. ... it'll probably break Windows Me. To science!

I don't even know what should happen with Program Files. Probably the only real conflict.

I suppose it's hard to get much worse :D

A+

I expected a BSOD

eh, the exe is just not compatible with 9x :P

Execute it with backwards compatibility, do it for the lulz

you don't... just force an exe to be compatible...

the welcome doesnt let you install anyway

Aw, yeah, it's not backwards compatibility, but the opposite 😅

haha ReactOS knows enough to display the custom icon on a folder, I assume a desktop.ini file.

Windows still boots and I'm impressed by that xD

naturally

naturally

+1

haha :p

also being a VM, trivial to roll a snapshot back to before I messed with it :D

Hey small question What's the best way to install ReactOS (on real hardware) without burning a CD every time?

Hey small question What's the best way to install ReactOS (on real hardware) without burning a CD every time?

USB (either Ramdisk, or dd / syslinux with nightly build)

USB (either Ramdisk, or dd / syslinux with nightly build)

I tried the ramdisk method some times ago but the install freezed everytime at the bootloader installation :/

I tried the ramdisk method some times ago but the install freezed everytime at the bootloader installation :/

Have you waited for some time? It took up to 3 minutes for me once before.

BTW seems our wiki is down.

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1360621321009381382

it really whips the llamas ass, even in reactos

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> that's quite a high quality video there! (edited)

Oh my! It is enough clear in my phone and on my PC (not in fullscreen)

welcome to the world of twitter compression

Have you waited for some time? It took up to 3 minutes for me once before.

I'll try again asap

welcome to the world of twitter compression

Twitter even compresses my thoughts!

Twitter even compresses my thoughts!

No it outright cancels our thoughts.

No it outright cancels our thoughts.

Hahahaha

No it outright cancels our thoughts.

i'm going to cancel you for your very existence oh and the fact that you arent spreading reactos propaganda 24/7 /s

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> lyubov / andjela / vera: are you all fine?

spombots

i'm going to cancel you for your very existence oh and the fact that you arent spreading reactos propaganda 24/7 /s

Everything ok? You seem to be a bit frustrated?

it was a joke

hmm. PCem got Pentium 2 emulation... ReactOS is actually working on it. Though I can only describe the experience as "glacial" compared to my usual snappy qemu testing xD

Qemu can emulate pentinum 2 too

not quite like that. It can restrict CPU features anyway.

PCem is more focused on a low-level emulation of the old systems, with all the hardware surrounding Pentium 2 too

and at the exact speed :p

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> 🙂

I wonder if ReactOS on Pentium Pro works... I believe that's actually the first i686.

and at the exact speed :p

Oh shit