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First post, by Gordon228

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i had resently try windows 3.1 under dos box and it works great but is it perfict for playing games i mean i tryed and it works but one the game has quit windows 3.1 is all scrwed as you can see. windows31hd8.th.png

Reply 5 of 8, by Neville

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Many "Windows" games are just DOS games with a PIF file and an icon tagged on. My guess is that you ran into one of those.

As h-a-l-9000 said, DOS stuff under Windows 3.1 is broken for the time being.

Reply 7 of 8, by butterfly

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Gordon228 wrote:

i had resently try windows 3.1 under dos box and it works great but is it perfict for playing games i mean i tryed and it works but one the game has quit windows 3.1 is all scrwed as you can see.

I remember having similar issues on an actual machine. Video board issues, I think