Windows 3.1

[Night Hawk]

I see you're working with a 98 upgrade while I proceeded that with a 95 upgrade disk. Funny how the time has passed and we still see clean installs with upgrade media.

Once I get ahold of the old Slot one case and have a look I will split the drive up for 3.1, 95, and 98SE. That still won't take much since the present 98 install is still on since it was first installed all those years back!

 

[sygnus21]

Did you check out the pics in the thread?

 

[Night Hawk]

I saw them when first taking a look. Now you have to put everything together and get it working first!

 

[racie]

Can I just add that After Dark is awesome?

It's just a shame that I can't get my CD to work on anything higher than Win98. :/

 

[Night Hawk]

Even with DOSBox many old titles intended for dos or the old Legacy versions simply won't run on anything newer. The advantage of the older 8bit games however is that they aren't dependent on Windows but run from dos to start with. You simply need to emulate a dos window for those.

Ever hear an old 8bit dos game through your surround sound speakers on the 64bit 7? There were no sound cards when those first came out! You heard sound through a small board speaker only.

 

[sygnus21]

I saw them when first taking a look. Now you have to put everything together and get it working first!

I do have it put together.... working is another story

 

[Night Hawk]

I saw them when first taking a look. Now you have to put everything together and get it working first!

I do have it put together.... working is another story

That's the fun part! You start the day off booting into that nice new 7 machine and then tackle some "slow boat to... wherever" museum piece! :roflmao:

I've been doing a lot of that lately when people want me to look over some old 9x case to see what I do with it. They often require ps/2 keyboards where any ps/2 adapter won't work or the old premade system has to have an original keyboard made by the OEM itself due to the special proprietary plug.

As far as what you are used to on 7 I think you realized all that won't work on 98 or 98SE. Either the version is too old lacking any support or no drivers were ever written or no longer to be found? fun fun fun city!

 

[richnrockville]

Windows 3.11, dos, win98 and Ubuntu

I have a screen shot from Windows 7 and the VPC where I have internet connections with all the systems. I can even get to web sites with windows 3.11 for work groups and it works, Of course non of the java or other things run.
but, I can get to the web sites and recognize them.


but as another pack rat, I have the original install disks for dos 1.0 up thru the
latest windows 7.

I run this on a p7 windows ultimate w/8gigs ram.

I also run the gwbasic intrepreter under windows 7.

writing basic programs and then being able to compile them is neat..

but then, I am an of who still loves the command line.
my first pc cost over $5000 and had 2 160K floppy drives.

 

[sygnus21]

I saw them when first taking a look. Now you have to put everything together and get it working first!

I do have it put together.... working is another story

That's the fun part! You start the day off booting into that nice new 7 machine and then tackle some "slow boat to... wherever" museum piece! :roflmao:

I've been doing a lot of that lately when people want me to look over some old 9x case to see what I do with it. They often require ps/2 keyboards where any ps/2 adapter won't work or the old premade system has to have an original keyboard made by the OEM itself due to the special proprietary plug.

As far as what you are used to on 7 I think you realized all that won't work on 98 or 98SE. Either the version is too old lacking any support or no drivers were ever written or no longer to be found? fun fun fun city!

We can discuss this further here.... http://www.sevenforums.com/software/122905-building-windows-98-machine.html

But I will add that the only issue I have thus far is my wireless adapter keeps crashing windows, even with the Win 98 drivers

As for the other drivers, I've got the soundcard and video drivers from the manufacturer's site

Anyways feel free to continue this at my thread since I don't want to hijack this one

Peace

 

[Night Hawk]

I still have to find a way to get 3.1 on a VM here. The first of the 6 floppies quit ruling out any bother with moving the floppy drive over from the old case. I should say recently retired case that is only about 3 1/2yrs. old compared to what MS Windows has 3.1 running on!

 

[Kari]

I like to play with old versions of Windows, virtually (http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/62333-18-years-windows-evolution.html).

Anyone having an idea how to join 3.1 to my network? I get it to internet, but not to be visible to other computers.

 

[Night Hawk]

The 3.11 for workstations would likely be far closer to what you are looking for there since 3.1 itself was a bit of a stand alone OS for desktops while the offshoot for networking was seen in the 3.11 later to NT 3.1 there.

You could still connect online once IE was available while even that lacked in versions prior to W95. That was more of an option for the previous few versions like 3.1. Those old 14kbs dial-up modems!

 

[sygnus21]

I like to play with old versions of Windows, virtually (http://www.sevenforums.com/chillout-room/62333-18-years-windows-evolution.html).

Anyone having an idea how to join 3.1 to my network? I get it to internet, but not to be visible to other computers.

Welcome back Kari. Hoping for your continued health.

Drew

 

[darkhog]

Sorry for reviving such old thread, but does anyone know how to make 7 look like Windows 3.11? Most info I've found about that was related to 98/XP, Vista at most and required paid software (WindowBlinds). Is there any program that can make Win7 look like 3.11 that is free?

Note, that I just want windows look like 3.1. I like it for its clean look and even W98 (Classic scheme) is for me too much. However I am too attached to taskbar , so I don't want "full Windows 3.11 experience", including Program Manager and minimizing to desktop.