Until recently, it hasn't been possible to run Windows 95 with 1GB of RAM, unless you did the old trick in SYSTEM.INI where you would limit the MaxPhysPage and MaxFileCache values to 512MB of RAM. Nowadays, though, it's pretty easy to do.
Back in 2019, Rudolph Loew's 3GB memory patch for Windows 9x was released for free by his son, and as a result, that has been added into a strange project called Windows 95D which I had been developing for several months. The name came about when Blue Horizon's then new discovery of gradient title bars in Memphis 1387 prompted me to try integrating that feature into Windows 95 OSR2 by transferring some key system files over. I then combined it with my existing efforts to integrate various updates into Windows 95.
Adding in the new system files turned out to introduce some new problems, and after much struggling, Windows 95D ended up being released "as is" at the end of 2019 without any further updates.
Specifications:
AOpen AX6B Motherboard
Intel Pentium II 300MHz
1024MB SDRAM
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Windows 95D
WinQuake 320x240, windowed
Timedemo: 60.9 FPS
Created on June 17th, 2020
more of a software novelty than anything else. this was a very neat modification devised by kugee and blue horizon which proved there's still a lot of new and weird stuff to discover about windows 95. even though this project was abandoned, it came to inspire a "lite" successor which removes the fancy decoration and focuses on a more seamless install experience for many 90's systems, finally bringing kugee's innovative techniques in removing the burdens of getting it running to the masses. actually in my last conversation with him i think he mentioned he wanted to drop the "lite" branding because of how huge it became
on November 14, 2023, Kugee's website, Razorback, shut down, and hundreds of the best retro tech videos vanished with them. He sent me some nvme drives with raw footage and project files so I can preserve his videos in the best format possible. so this is effectively the official archive of Razorback (and kugee's youtube channel)
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