Manley Evangelista's Windows CE Bootable CD: Difference between revisions

Unlike most bootlegs which usually edit an existing Windows distribution, this one is a DR-DOS 7.03 based boot disk of 4 stock Windows CE versions which are booted using the LOADCEPC.EXE program which loads the kernel into RAM and boots it directly from RAM on the system. All of the images here (even DR-DOS) are all from the HPC Factor website, which were originally distributed separately in their own bootable VHD images.

* Windows CE 3.0 (named "HPC2000" (evena thoughcomputer it'sthat notis Handheldbased PCon 2000Windows CE 3.0, despitealthough itthis technicallyisn't beingexactly basedthe onimage Windowsused CEon 3.0that computer) on the CD)

The difference between the so-called "PDA" and "Webpad" versions of Windows CE 4.0 .NET included on the CD is that the PDA version was built with the proprietary Microsoft Messenger component while the Webpad version was built with the regular E-mail POP3 Client component instead. The image names are exactly the same as the ones from the HPC Factor website as well.

Then, there is a disclaimer for the first version that warns the user that the aforementioned version may not display correctly, as LOADCEPC's emulated display driver doesn't support the VESA standard, even though the images themselvesin question were made in question for Virtual PC's enhanced S3 Trio64 emulation, which includedfully specialsupported featuresthe relatedVESA to VM integrationstandard.

* None. They're all stock