Okay, no DOS titles, but Close Combat is a fun Win95 era title. Go for it!

nothing that requires DirectX, NT doesn't support DirectX remember that

candle_86 wrote:

nothing that requires DirectX, NT doesn't support DirectX remember that

DirectX 3 is supported in NT4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0#Features

But it is most certainly not supported by NT3.1 (and probably not NT3.5).

Er...1997? That's more like NT4. NT3.1 was more like 1993. The best you can hope for from that is Windows 3.x games....like MS Best of Entertainment, Civ and Sim City for Windows or perhaps some FMV games from the early CD-ROM days. NT3.1 was pretty much non-existent on the consumer desktop, therefore there are no games specifically tailored to it.

Yea I am looking for Win16 games. I don't know if NT has Win32 support though.

brostenen wrote:

Give it somewere in the neighbourhood of 12 to 16 mb of Ram. […]
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Ampera wrote:

Yea, I'm throwing NT 3.1 on there, might up it to 3.5. I think that's a bit more 486 friendly.

Further suggestions?

Give it somewere in the neighbourhood of 12 to 16 mb of Ram.

Ampera wrote:

I'm totally not crazy. All my NT 3.1 floppies died long ago leaving me with the images […]
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I'm totally not crazy. All my NT 3.1 floppies died long ago leaving me with the images

that i need to write

to 22 floppies

with the caveat being I only have one spare floppy around

shoot me, please.

You can have the images on a modern machine, and write a new one on that floppy,
each time it asks for the next disc. I did that with Os/2 in 1995/96.
And I did that with Win95 April Testrelease. In April of 1995.
It will take a loooong time. Eventually you will have NT seated on the harddrive.

You can do it a different way though. Creating an extended partition (D:)
On that drive, you can have a directory "install" and inside that another called "NT".
Inside the NT directory, you make a new one for each floppy disks.
This would be something like: C:\INSTALL\NT\DISK01 and C:\INSTALL\NT\DISK02 and so on.
Then it is just a matter of filling those directories with the files from the right floppy.

Installing, would be something like booting a boot-floppy and starting the NT dos installer
program, that I simply can not remember what is called.

Yea that's exactly what I am doing. CDs take a long time to burn, and I couldn't use one anyways since NT 3.1 insists on using a SCSI CD drive.

So 22 floppies for m.

24-26 since I have to do some multiple times.

The irony is that writing them on my USB floppy drive is the slow part, and reading takes a few seconds. So it wouldn't matter if I had 22 diskettes, it still wouldn't be much faster.

Ampera wrote:

Yea that's exactly what I am doing. CDs take a long time to burn, and I couldn't use one anyways since NT 3.1 insists on using a SCSI CD drive.

The entry at http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-window … -in-virtualbox/ suggests you can use DOS with a CD-ROM driver and then run the DOS-based installer.

It still takes a long time for my 4x CD-RW to write as I am too poor and lazy to go and get real discs.

Either way, it's installed, and when I am less lazy I will go install all the drivers I need.