Is it worth the effort to install Windows 3.1 on DOSBox? Why or why not?
Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community
Yes so you can play Ski Free and Klik & Play trainwrecks on Win64
Is it worth the effort to use colors? Why or why not?
Your answer to that probably answers your question as well
Basically for fun...right
wrote:Basically for fun...right
Fun is bad.
Klimawandel.
I still have some old Win 3.1 aplications from when I played on a Win3.1-based 486SX33MHz PC, including After Dark, videos and some games. When I had that system, I eventually had to compress the hard drive. After that, it still lasted until a virus hit it. I'd really like to see some of this stuff in legacy/freeware. 😀 That's why I wanted to compress a DOSBox drive. What do you think?
Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer community
just create a larger harddrive inside dosbox.
Water flows down the stream
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Never mind about the file compression thing: I'll just keep it in my own world for now. 🙁
There are many games that work well in a Windows 3.1 DOSbox and some that don't. I think a better solution for Windows 3.1 is VPC 2007.
I find the colors make posts harder to read.
It works in DOSBox, but anything that needs SHARE.EXE (Office comes to mind as well as anything using Win32s) isn't going to work. I find that pretty disappointing because it's ALMOST the perfect replacement for an old PC. Virtual PC works, but the SB16 OPL emulation is absolutely atrocious (a real buzz killer since a lot of old Win3.x games use MIDI for music) and it's no use if your main computer is a Mac like in my case. Pretty much every emulator has a tradeoff-- nothing does a flawless emulation yet.
The OPL Archive - Preserving MS-DOS music in a unified format!
Yes, every emulator seems to have different goals 😉
And you are actually not correct, share does work in Dosbox IF you use a hard drive image and boot in dosbox from it. So if you REALLY need share then you are good. But does one really need those programs? I meanfor more than the one time "oh great it works"? For that one time you can also use the fakeshare from the win3.x guide.
Yeah and then have fun figuring out the random data corruption because fakeshare is only fake.
Yup, but it is good enough for those that want to run any of those office suites just to see them run or (and I'd count that as a real reason) if they want to open an old file with that. I seriously doibt anyone "really" wants to use the old share programs 😉
What else would be fun/useful?
Masturbation.
Getting a kick in the balls
wrote:What else would be fun/useful?
Useful?
Posters who don't clutter up the forums.
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