FreeDOS and Windows 3.X in 386 mode...???

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Reply 40 of 42, by JSO

Posted on 2025-06-24, 10:56

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Windows 3.11 , was an updated version of 3.1 with some patches and fixes, about eight months after the release of 3.1 and less than ten months before the release of 3.11 for Workgroups.

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Reply 41 of 42, by Jo22

Posted on 2026-01-23, 22:09

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What also might be worth to experiment with is Win-OS/2 (Grzyb mentioned it).
Unlike real Windows 3.1, it is a DPMI client. Back in the 90s, it was the only way to get Windows running on dosemu.
So by applying Win-OS/2 files to regular Windows 3.1, it might run in a DPMI environment.
More information here: https://web.mit.edu/linux/redhat/redhat-4.0.0 … MU-HOWTO-8.html

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Reply 42 of 42, by Sleaka_J

Posted on 2026-01-24, 11:26

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I installed SvarDOS last night to see how Windows for Workgroups 3.11 runs.

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