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Windows 3.1 not working

Open testcooldude4444 opened this issue 7 years ago • 12 comments

I couldn't load windows 3.1 on your site.

testcooldude4444 avatar Apr 27 '18 22:04 testcooldude4444

Indeed. This particular version of Windows has never worked on v86.

copy avatar Apr 28 '18 00:04 copy

Any more info on this? I get the following - is this what everyone else gets? Did anyone get past this?

Setup cannot install MS-DOS 6.22 on your computer.

Your computer does not have a hard disk, your hard disk is not functioning correctly, or your hard disk requires a special device driver. Contact your computer vendor for assistance.

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shanept avatar Aug 27 '18 05:08 shanept

Install it within qemu (make it a raw image format) and then boot the disk image within v86

BelleNottelling avatar Aug 27 '18 05:08 BelleNottelling

You don't need to do that. head to allbootdisks.com and look for 6.22.img use a dos manual or use freedos

strikersix23 avatar Oct 08 '18 17:10 strikersix23

Just for the record, I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 FWG on a Qemu machine. On a v86 machine, I used that disk image with all standard graphic drivers. No one worked. But XGA (640x480, 16 colors) made the second stage installation (the one where it is shown a GUI) to appear. Unfortunately the system ended up frozen. I've been unable to reproduce that behavior once again.

alejandrocobo avatar Apr 14 '20 06:04 alejandrocobo

1 2 Don't works on windows 3.11

Pixelsuft avatar Nov 20 '20 10:11 Pixelsuft

@Pixelsuft That works, pretty cool. Do you have small-ish (preferably less than 100MB) disk image to share?

copy avatar Dec 29 '20 05:12 copy

@copy

Image

http://pixelsuftbox.herokuapp.com/static/img/win31.img

File Size

33 MB

Pixelsuft avatar Jan 31 '21 06:01 Pixelsuft

For reference, @Pixelsuft's Windows 3.1 is configured like this:

Screenshot_2021-03-05_23-36-49

It seems to be working fine modulo a popup after boot. edit and qbasic don't work due to a missing FPU instruction. I took the liberty of adding it as a profile: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows31

copy avatar Mar 06 '21 05:03 copy

As a tiny 30th birthday present.. The popup can be fixed by changing the startup to win -s or win /s. A well aimed

sed -i -e's/afe boot/        /' images/win31.img

should do the trick.

dugoh avatar Apr 09 '22 13:04 dugoh

@dugoh Applied, cheers!

copy avatar Apr 09 '22 15:04 copy

Standard Mode for WfW 3.1 and 3.11 (networking and some drivers are not working):

3.1: win /s 3.11: win /D:T (source)

screenshot

SuperMaxusa avatar Aug 30 '23 17:08 SuperMaxusa