Win 95/98 support has been dropped when adding full Unicode support to
the 3.10.x series of VMs (the need to compile with MS' compatibility
layer for unicode ticked me over it ;-) You can try using the 3.7.1 VM
which is very stable and should work well under Win 95/98:

http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/Squeak-Win32-3.7.1-VM.zip

Cheers,
  - Andreas

Kouji takahashi wrote:
> Hi.
> 
>  I downloaded latest Windows VM from www.squeak.org/Download page.
>   ftp.squeak.org/3.10/win/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin.zip
> 
>  On Win98 PC, this VM shows Windows dialog 
> "Image file read problem (0 out of 4 byte read)"
> and abort image loading.
> 
>  On WinXP, same VM/image works great (as usual).
> 
>  Squeak.exe  1,053KB 2004-09-23 runs stable on Win98.
> But it consumes 50% CPU even idling.
> 
>  I plan to use Squeak as controller for automated tasks.
> So constantly consumes 50% CPU VM is not attractive. :-)
> 
>  I'm looking for more CPU gentle VM for Win98 and/or tips.
> 
> 
>  Thanks ( in advance ).
> 
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