Strange version of Windows 3.1 marked with a "W" logo
2022年1月4日 · I was digging through my storage and came across this old copy of Windows 3.1. It's a strange looking version though and am wondering if anyone has any info on it. The copyright page only mentions Microsoft Corporation but it doesn't look like any version of Windows or Microsoft product I have seen before.
How to use / start Windows 3.11 with FreeDOS
2023年8月5日 · win /s (standard mode) => Can't start Windows in Standard Mode. Try to use the extended mode win /3. win /3 (extended mode for 386) => Windows cannot run in Advanced Mode for 386 PC because of the Protected Mode software already installed. Exit the Protected Mode software and try again. What I have done so far: added InDOSPolling=TRUE to C ...
What determined the type of error dialog being shown in …
2019年7月23日 · However, as that article says, Windows 3.1 didn't really have a "blue screen of death": If an MS-DOS application crashed, you got a blue screen message saying that the application crashed, but Windows kept running. If it was a device driver that crashed, then Windows 3.1 shut down the virtual machine that the device driver was running in.
How do I get Windows 3.1 to run on modern PCs (> 512 MB of …
2021年2月14日 · 13. The accepted answer to Windows 98 with 2GB of RAM should be adaptable for Windows 3.1: download and extract HIMEMX; edit CONFIG.SYS to load that instead of HIMEM.SYS, and specify /MAX=262144 to limit memory to 256MiB (the practical limit for Windows 3. x). This will ensure that Windows only sees 256MiB through the …
ms dos - How did Windows 3.1 implement multitasking?
2019年4月23日 · 92. Windows in its earliest days was simply a shell that ran on top of MS-DOS, which means that Windows 3.1 itself was actually just a standard MS-DOS application like any other. Yet, MS-DOS is not a multitasking operating system, and at the same time, Windows applications were compiled native-code binaries that ran without any form of managed ...
Is there a better way to the 6 disks install of Windows 3.1
2017年5月21日 · If my memory serves well, Windows can be installed from a directory on hard disk. You need a means of reading all disks and storing its files on the same directory on the hard disk of your target machine. There may be files that are the same (DISK.ID or something). Just overwrite them. Then, invoke the INSTALL application from the copied ...
ms dos - Using the swap space of Windows 3.1 as a MS-DOS 6.22 …
2017年6月18日 · Windows 3.1 can create its own temporary swap file as necessarily, while a file with a 1000 blank lines is unlikely to work as a permanent swap file. Also FOR /l won't work in MS-DOS. That, and any of the other FOR options, requires that the script be run using cmd.exe under a Windows NT based OS.
Media formats in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 [closed]
2023年2月7日 · Windows 3.11 was released in 1993 only a minor bugfix upgrade to 3.1 with no new features, and 3.1 was released in 1992. JPEG specification was released in 1992 after Windows 3.1 release. MP3 specification, or rather, MPEG-1 Audio standard which included the Layer 3 algorithms, was first published in 1993. Therefore, neither JPEG or MP3 did not ...
How can I extract the contents of a Windows 3.1 (16-bit) game …
JPEG in a Windows 3.x era executable seems rather unlikely. You haven’t even named any actual tool in your answer. And for what it’s worth, I actually tried running binwalk on some bundled Windows programs (like SOL.EXE), and the results were pretty disappointing: it did not even manage to find the card bitmaps that Resource Workshop ...
Why did fonts in Windows 1.01's Write application look so poor?
2021年7月31日 · Windows 1.0’s Write application doesn’t care about how the text it displays is rendered — it relies on its operating environment to display it. As such, it supports smooth fonts, even though Windows 1.0 itself (and Windows 2.0 etc.) doesn’t.