The file you would have to look for is w950109b.zip. search it on the internet and you will find it.

Merged threads on advice of robertmo.

Thanks Viacom234.

That's a Windows 95 driver. It won't work in Windows 3.1!

Why don't you run Win95 instead of Win3.1?

Windows 95 runs like crap in dosbox.

georgeqgreg wrote:

Windows 95 runs like crap in dosbox.

Yes, and DOSBox is not designed to.

In W31, for me the file w3117004.zip worked fine.

georgeqgreg wrote:

Windows 95 runs like crap in dosbox.

DOSBox is designed to run DOS games, not other operating systems or apps. If you can do it and it works out for you, then great, if it doesn't then don't complain because it wasn't designed for whatever you were trying to do and you won't get support for anything that isn't a DOS game that doesn't work. If you need a more complete implementation of DOS, then you should be looking at something like FreeDOS or other similar projects that are out there.

What I'm looking to do is run old 16-bit Windows games in comfort. Dosbox is definitely meant for games. Is some other VM? Probably not. If you know a VM design expressly for running old Windows games, do feel free to tell me all about it.

EDIT: Ok, I tried the driver suggested by IIGS_User above and the mouse is still a little wonky. Darn.

^ VMWare Player.

Dosbox is for Dos games, not even Windows 3.x, even though it's possible. Read Dominus' Windows 3.1x Dosbox Guide.

VMWare Player is a bit heavy, and I find it a bit useless for just about anything, except the small fringe of games that work on W9x and ONLY W9x. (Discworld Noir anybody? 🤣 )

I've got Win 3.1 running nice, I just want to take advantage of the autolock, so I can have my mouse cursor go in and out the window... a bit like VMWare in fact!

(Side note: and yet Noir crashes under Vmware at some spots anyway! Thank goodness I have a proper Win 98 PC to play those problem spots on!)

Then you should enquire at a VM based forum. Or try to run what you want in your proper Win 98 PC.

I beg your pardon? Sorry, I'm trying to use dosbox so I don't use a VM, and I'm on a dosbox forum for help with dosbox.

I'm not trying to run anything in particular, just trying to make a custom "lite-install" win3.1 to make running 16-bit Windows apps easier on 64-bit Windows. Think the way gog has it, dosbox is all nice configured to run the game when you start it, and exit when it's done. But due to the pointy nature of Windows, I wanted to use a mouse tracking sort of feature, which I don't think gog actually does. (Basically to make playing in a window a little less weird/painful.)

If you want help with dosbox then ask for help and be specific about what your problem is, instead of hijacking a thread. Only your fourth post actually mentions your problem...

georgeqgreg wrote:

What I'm looking to do is run old 16-bit Windows games in comfort. Dosbox is definitely meant for games. Is some other VM? Probably not. If you know a VM design expressly for running old Windows games, do feel free to tell me all about it.

EDIT: Ok, I tried the driver suggested by IIGS_User above and the mouse is still a little wonky. Darn.

Apparently Wine has some ability to run 16-bit Windows apps in Linux/MacOSX.

DOSBox seems to work well for Win3.1, but gaming-level emulation of 16-bit Win9x apps on modern Windows is definitely a hole right now.

Wine was actually on my mind at one point. Apparently it can only run 16-bit programs under 32-bit Linux though. Sound familiar?

If only someone would pair Wine with dosbox's CPU core and port it to Windows, that might be a good solution!

EDIT: And I think I should point out that Wine would very easily solve any legal issues with Windows 3.1.

georgeqgreg wrote:

If only someone would pair Wine with dosbox's CPU core and port it to Windows, that might be a good solution!

Re: Java Port

collector wrote:

georgeqgreg wrote:

If only someone would pair Wine with dosbox's CPU core and port it to Windows, that might be a good solution!

Re: Java Port

Eww, Java.

A java port of dosbox? What's the relevance? And agreed, eww.