JHRobotics/patcher9x
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Patch for Windows 9x to fix CPU issues
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 4 stories, 4 comments · first 2023-06-12 · latest 2026-05-16
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…apparently went unnoticed for decades and now triggers in KVM on AMD Zen 2 and newer CPUs? (see: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x ) AFAIK, part of the reason Linux no longer supports i486 is that it made CMPXCHG8B a hard requirement…
comment by st_goliath · 2026-05-16 · in Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux -
…Attempting to install/run on modern hardware will usually blue-screen without the workarounds. =3 https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x
comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-03-29 · in OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 -
It needs quite a few fixes to even run in a VM. But it can be done: https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x
comment by Joe_Cool · 2026-02-02 · in Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle -
…on more modern CPUs including Ryzen CPUs. It patches the "TLB Invalidation Bug". [1] [0] https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x [1] https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2015/08/win9x-tlb-invalidation-b...
comment by accrual · 2023-07-07 · in Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP