First post, by twiz11
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Can we talk about how to run Windows 9x, 1x, 2x, 3x in dosbox?
Can we talk about how to run Windows 9x, 1x, 2x, 3x in dosbox?
Everything you might want to know is already in the Guides subforum.
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Running Windows 95 in DOSBox is not supported and is generally not discussed, but you will find some talk about it in there anyway, as well as all over the rest of the Internet. In fact, I'm sure you can find completely illegal pre-packaged distributions somewhere or another.
No one talks about running Windows 1.x and 2.x in DOSBox because that is generally quite pointless. 😜 Regardless, I would not expect there to be any difficulties involved in doing so, as 3.x already runs adequately.
Discussion of where to obtain illegal copies of any of the above is not allowed.
I thought that support for Windows 1 was broken and would not be fixed, but as you note, what's the point.
I had Windows 95 set up with DOSBox for quite a while to play some older games. For the most part is was working nicely. However any time I tried installing something from CD, on reboot it would give Page Faults that could only be fixed by restoring my back up image. No amount of changing CPU type, core, cycles, DOSBox version (SVN, 0.74, 0.73..., Daum, etc) would remedy it. It was impressive that DOSBox worked as well as it did with my testing it with Windows 95.
I run Windows 3.1 in DOSBox all the time, or at least I used to... It works of course, but there's not much point in it as you're already running a graphical environment if you're using DOSBox, and more general emulators like PCem, VirtualBox, etc. are far better suited to 3.1 & 9x emulation.
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If you run Windows (3.1, or 95, or XP, whatever) then can you run DOSBox in that version of Windows? And if so, then can you run Windows in that DOSBox-that's-in-Windows-that's-in-DOSBox? And if so, how many levels of emulation could you get running, and what factor would stop this otherwise infinite loop of DOSBox in Windows in DOSBox in Windows in DOSBox in Windows etc?
Maybe it would be better with Bosch or PCem or something. Or better not to try it at all! But theoretically, is it posible?
Why don't you try it and tell us all about it?
I can tell you that you certainly won't be able to run DOSBox in Windows 3.1, and you won't get XP running in DOSBox. You can actually run DOSBox in DOS with HX DOS Extender, but I'm not sure what happens if you try that in DOSBox.
I know i've run DOSBox in PCem before, which is reasonable because PCem actually supports Windows 95. So in essence, this is a x86 dynamic recompiler working with another x86 dynamic recompiler, and nothing is royally screwing up on the way there.