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- Winice Loader Readme file (Beta 1)
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- This utility is a small loader designed to load Winice on Windows
- Millennium, without the need of the checked build of io.sys, which is part
- of the Millennium DDK, and is not freely available yet.
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- 1. Installation:
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- 1. Install Softice for Windows Millennium normally. Make sure that
- winice.exe and winice.dat files are present in the Windows root directory.
- Don't rename winice.exe to anything else, the loader expects to find
- "winice.exe". Configure video display and mouse as usual.
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- 2.Copy the file loader.exe into %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\VMM32\ folder.
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- 3.Reboot your system.
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- 2. Errors and troubleshooting
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- The utility relies on the %winbootdir% environment variable, and needs
- it to point to the Windows root folder. The Millennium io.sys versions which I
- checked all define this variable and correctly initialize it. If the Winice
- loader cannot find it, it will complain about it, but will continue to boot
- Windows normally.
- If winice.exe is not found (e.g. Softice was uninstalled), the loader
- will transparently continue to boot Windows.
- If winice.exe fails execution for whatever reason (such as no XMS
- present, insufficient memory...) the user will be prompted by io.sys for
- the name of the Windows loader. Just enter at the prompt:
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- %WINDIR%\SYSTEM\vmm32.vxd
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- This will boot Windows normally.
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- In the event that your %WINDIR%\system\vmm32\ folder already contains
- a loader.exe file, DO NOT overwrite it with our loader. Please write down if
- your Windows is a special OEM build, the build number, and send us this info,
- attaching your io.sys and loader.exe.
- Since this utility interferes with the boot process of Windows
- Millennium, it is a good idea to have a rescue disk ready. If the system crashes
- or does not boot in a reasonable amount of time, boot from floppy and delete
- loader.exe. Keep in mind that we are not responsible for any damage this
- utility causes to you, your data, your mental sanity or global warming. It
- was written for ourselves, but we decided to release it because many crackers
- wanted to use Windows Millennium and Winice.
- This utility was tested using Windows Millennium build 2525 and Winice
- for Windows Millennium 4.0.5 build 410 (the Windows 98 versions just won't cut
- it). Since both the OS and the debugger were beta builds, I cannot guarantee
- that it will work on other versions, because certain things we rely on might
- change. Yet mail us the build numbers, and we will fix the utility. Also,
- please report any anomalies while using Winice loaded this way.
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- The source code is provided for educational purposes only. Distribution
- of modified versions is strictly prohibited.
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- Best rgeards , Icedump team
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- (C) 2000 Iceman [UKC] and rest of Icedump Team. All rights reserved.
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