They wanted to imply that their product would be faster than ARC and other compression formats of the time. The name "zip" (meaning "move at high speed") was suggested by Katz's friend, Robert Mahoney. The format was created after Systems Enhancement Associates (SEA) filed a lawsuit against PKWARE claiming that the latter's archiving products, named PKARC, were derivatives of SEA's ARC archiving system. ZIP file format was designed by Phil Katz of PKWARE and Gary Conway of Infinity Design Concepts. 2.6 Combination with other file formats.2.2.4 End of central directory record (EOCD).When navigating a file system via a user interface, graphical icons representing ZIP files often appear as a document or other object prominently featuring a zipper. ZIP is used as a base file format by many programs, usually under a different name. ZIP and the MIME media type application/zip. ZIP files generally use the file extensions. Most free operating systems have built in support for ZIP in similar manners to Windows and Mac OS X. Apple has included built-in ZIP support in Mac OS X 10.3 (via BOMArchiveHelper, now Archive Utility) and later. Native support was added as of the year 2000 in Windows ME. Microsoft has included built-in ZIP support (under the name "compressed folders") in versions of Microsoft Windows since 1998 via the "Windows Plus!" addon for Windows 98. The ZIP format was then quickly supported by many software utilities other than PKZIP. This format was originally created in 1989 and was first implemented in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility, as a replacement for the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. TweakUI for Windows 98 - Customize your Win98SE.ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015 (a subset of ZIP file format 6.3.3).TightVNC v1.3.10 - Last version of TightVNC with Win98SE support.Unofficial Windows 98SE Service Pack 2.1a - Includes all hotfixes and security updates for Windows 98SE.Closing programs with this utility is a lot more reliable than CTRL+ALT+DEL and plus it shows everything running. I even add it to my startup folder and you can just minimize it to the tray. I personally just copy it to my windows directory as taskmgr.exe so I can do a ctrl+r->taskmgr.exe and force close a program. Process Explorer - A Task Manager-like utility.Good for slower computers (like p2 and below). A trick I use is to force the Opera Turbo on and it will do a lot of prerendering for you offsite. Opera v10.61 with MSIMG32 DLL - The MSIMG32 is to help with some rendering effects.NUSB v3.3e - USB drivers for thumbsticks, etc.NET Framework v2.0 - You may not need this, but a few programs I've downloaded here and there wanted this. KernelEX v4.0 - Emulator to allow some newer software designed for Win2k and XP to run on Win98SE.Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 - Last version of IE for Windows 98SE. Not sure if this is the last version that will work it, but it's been working good for me with no issues. It's getting a little harder to find Win98 versions. FileZilla FTP Client v2.2.15 - Good for transferring files from another computer.DirectX v9.0 - You will need this for some later 3D titles.I've used this on some older machines like a P1 166 with no ill-effects. 98SE2ME - Nice utility to copy over the better parts of ME and get some updated TCP stacks and other performance and stability.7-zip v9.20 - Free compresison utility.Here are few utilities I install after a fresh 98SE installation:
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