Does anyone know if windows 3.x uses 80286 protected mode? I remember it can't run on a 8086. You can install both windows 9x and 3.x in same computer as long as you keep different .swp files (i.e., as long as you shut down windows and kill 9x .swp file *before* starting windows 3.x) (yes, I've …

Excuse Me, Sky_Eagle1. I miss-understood some points of your message. I understood you were unable to run SOME windows soft, not the windows setup. The windows setup *should* run OK in standard mode. In other hand, that curious fact of windows reading real hard drive instead of emulated drive seems …

Couldn't they have used the standard ANSI code for xtended keypresses? What program DOES use that feature? (Well, Ms. Office's "Clipo" character is also said to be a feature...)

Running from BeOS, I experiment the following dosbox keyboard nasties: 1) AltGr-sifted keys work, but they add a "1" to the output (I.E. in an spanish linuxlike keyboard, "\" is in ALTGR-key-below-esc , but pressing ALTGR-4 to make "\" produces "1\") 2) Of course, I can get vital keystrokes, like …

Yes, it would be useful to run old win3.1 games using windows from DosBox. I remember windows 3.x (3.0 , 3.1 and 3.11) could run windows 2.x games (yes, I was running windows 2.x games on my windows 3.x box; it was a couple of shareware games). But... Most windows 3.11 software requires windows …