[trevor89]

I think a proper database would be good for this (on kex homepage prehaps?) meaning that you could type/search for an app to see its compatability.

Anyway, Starry Night CASP 6 works with kex (latest).
Compatability issue, do not tick [Use shaders] otherwise it will crash upon start with illegal operation.

Trev

[CharlesF]

trevor89, on 30 March 2011 - 06:29 AM, said:

I think a proper database would be good for this (on kex homepage prehaps?) meaning that you could type/search for an app to see its compatability.

Here it is: KernelEx Wiki > Compatible applications

Charles

[Mathwiz]

As mentioned way back on page 1 of this thread, Adobe Reader 7.09 works. And with KernelEx 4.5 Final, the installation program completes normally - no need to edit the .msi file anymore.

BUT, when I installed Adobe Reader 7.09, it installed a version of MSVCRT.DLL that broke several programs. Ouch!

Luckily, if this happens to you, MGDx has the fix. http://www.mdgx.com/files/Q932590.EXE will install the latest version of MSVCRT.DLL that works with Win98.

* Whew! * That was close. Thanks MGDx!

Edit: One more thing: Make sure to set not just the install program, but also Adobe Reader 7.09 itself, to Windows 2000 compatibility mode. Otherwise you'll have garbage in many of the dialog boxes.

This post has been edited by Mathwiz: 13 April 2011 - 08:22 PM

[M()zart]

About a year ago I wrote about STDU Viewer. Recently I tried the latest version 1.5.635. The list of supported formats increased and now it can display tiff, djvu, pdf, xps, cbz, cbr, tcr, jbig2, fb2, wwf, pdb and other file formats. And what's cool, I have found the way to run it on Windows 98 with KernelEx 4.5 without this interface bug that makes it almost unusable. You need to download both portable version and installer. Install it, then unpack portable version to other location and use the portable version to launch it. I don't know why it works in that way, but it works perfectly! When I run the installed version, the interface is crapped; when I try to use only portable version, the interface is OK but it cannot open a file, but when I run portable version with already installed one, everything works OK.

[jds]

Just in the past couple of days, I've installed Opera 11.11 (using W2K compatibility mode) on two machines, both W98SE with KernelEx 4.5.1. Generally, I'm impressed with it, compared to FF (2.0.0.22pre).

On one machine however, no icon appears on the taskbar when Opera is started.

I've looked around for an explanation/solution, but the only similar thing I can find relates to Linux. Ideas anyone?

Also I've noticed, on both machines, Opera doesn't like to open multiple instances of itself. Minor issue, although more annoying when there's no icon on the taskbar to remind you it's already running.

Joe.

PS. Just solved the mystery of the missing taskbar icon for Opera. On a hunch, I installed the Unofficial Q932590 hotfix for 'msvcrt.dll' from MDGX's site. (A similar problem existed for Wireshark 0.99.4, now also fixed.)

This post has been edited by jds: 31 May 2011 - 01:40 AM

[fortcollins]

I tried STDU Viewer 1.5.647 with Kernelex 4.5.1.

As noted below, this program has one feature I have wanted since the original Kodak Imaging program.

I did however have some problems. I had to wonder if they were STDU problems or Kernelex problems because I don't have a system without kernelex.

I went to the web site and didn't find any forums, only a email address for support.

File, print consistently crashed the program with a page fault in kernel32.dll.

In the preferences/options dialog box, clicking "paragraphs and fonts" consistently crashed the program with a page fault in module STDUVIEWERAPP.EXE.

In the shortcuts branch in that dialog box, clicking the assign command button for a entered short cut key did not do anything.

In the text documents branch in that dialog box, changing the background color did not do anything.

The program did not remember the window position and size when re-starting.

For selected areas of the image, the program provided copy and save options, but not a cut option. For me cut is important because I often have to clean up black areas on scanned documents.

That said, the program had one feature that I have wanted for years. If you key view, setting, the program offers three slider controls for brightness, contrast, and gamma for the image. When viewing bright white background .pdf and .tif documents, you can turn down the brightness on the white backgrounds to a level where you don't wish for sun glasses.

[schwups]

Maybe this can help: http://kernelex.sour...iki/STDU_Viewer

[jds]

fortcollins, on 20 June 2011 - 08:28 PM, said:

I tried STDU Viewer 1.5.647 with Kernelex 4.5.1.

As noted below, this program has one feature I have wanted since the original Kodak Imaging program.

I did however have some problems. I had to wonder if they were STDU problems or Kernelex problems because I don't have a system without kernelex.

I went to the web site and didn't find any forums, only a email address for support.

File, print consistently crashed the program with a page fault in kernel32.dll.

In the preferences/options dialog box, clicking "paragraphs and fonts" consistently crashed the program with a page fault in module STDUVIEWERAPP.EXE.

In the shortcuts branch in that dialog box, clicking the assign command button for a entered short cut key did not do anything.

In the text documents branch in that dialog box, changing the background color did not do anything.

The program did not remember the window position and size when re-starting.

For selected areas of the image, the program provided copy and save options, but not a cut option. For me cut is important because I often have to clean up black areas on scanned documents.

That said, the program had one feature that I have wanted for years. If you key view, setting, the program offers three slider controls for brightness, contrast, and gamma for the image. When viewing bright white background .pdf and .tif documents, you can turn down the brightness on the white backgrounds to a level where you don't wish for sun glasses.

Any program running under KernelEx compatibility mode, even say 'notepad', fails to print on my system.

As for the features you seek, have you tried IrfanView? Runs on W9X natively (except for the OCR plug-in, which needs KernelEx).

Joe.

[CharlesF]

New version released Opera 11.50 with his bunch of improvements,
ruuning fine with last KernelEx 4.5.1 installed!

Official announcement: Swordfish jumps out of the water
Change Logs
Download

[xrayer]

Mozilla Seamonkey up to version 2.0.14 works fine for me.
Ver. 2.1 starts but freeze when loading a webpage (even on local disk) - kernelex 4.5.1, winxp-sp2 compat.

[jds]

xrayer, on 10 July 2011 - 07:25 AM, said:

Mozilla Seamonkey up to version 2.0.14 works fine for me.
Ver. 2.1 starts but freeze when loading a webpage (even on local disk) - kernelex 4.5.1, winxp-sp2 compat.

Have you tried W2K compatibility mode? I've found some app's are no good using XP compatibility mode, but are fine using W2K mode.

Joe.

[xrayer]

jds, on 10 July 2011 - 07:04 PM, said:

xrayer, on 10 July 2011 - 07:25 AM, said:

Mozilla Seamonkey up to version 2.0.14 works fine for me.
Ver. 2.1 starts but freeze when loading a webpage (even on local disk) - kernelex 4.5.1, winxp-sp2 compat.

Have you tried W2K compatibility mode? I've found some app's are no good using XP compatibility mode, but are fine using W2K mode.

Joe.

No but it's not 99.99% this problem. I found other user reported that seamonkey 2.1 beta 1 worked for him but all newer version freezed at rendering page.
I deleted 2.1 and reverted back to 2.0.14 that works fine. But hope that some future KX version will make it available.

This post has been edited by xrayer: 13 July 2011 - 06:52 AM

[M()zart]

Odin Password Security Manager 6.5.2, that I get as today's giveaway on giveawayoftheday.com works with Kernel Ex. Tried it - saved one password - it seems that it works correctly.

[xrayer]

Winamp Pro 5.541 works with KX 4.5.1
Winamp 5.35 was probably the latest with native win98 support.

BTW I think it would be good idea to create application list in 1st post because now it's spreaded on 8 pages that become a mess...
I can see that author of 1st post here is signed "banned" so he probably cannot update this. I can help with it if admin allows me to moderate this thread.

This post has been edited by xrayer: 18 July 2011 - 06:51 PM

[dencorso]

A new, consolidated list has been created and stickified here, and must be used from now on. There's a link there pointing to this one, just in case. This thread is now closed.