Things to do: Look into adding networking instructions Go over guide. Compare to Sierrahelp guide. Include changes when needed.
Compare S3 drivers SB16 Drivers It looks like IE5 included 'TCP/IP Stack and Dialer' which installs TCP/IP support on Windows 3.x. (If you install IE5 on Workgroup edition it will not install it) DRIVER RESEARCH (UNTESTESTED SO LIKELY DO NOT WORK) Newer driver for S3 864 chipset for Windows 3.1 ew311502.zip Possibly compatible NT 3.1/3.5 drivers as well. S3 864 Win 3.x Drivers (v1.69.02) (v1.50.02) (v1.50.02) S3 864 Win95 Drivers (Only for VLB/PCI?) (Only for VLB/PCI?) S3 864 NT 3.xx Driver S3 864 OS/2 Driver Need permanent storage location for 3.1 drivers and software. Any other files that should be hosted?
Windows 95 image under dosbox. However, as always there are some difficulties, and these are really dire. I installed directx 6 with some success, the setup advised me to keep the current (working) sb 16 drivers and NOT to install the directx ones. After this i tried to install a video game. Well, yeah how. There is no way to assign a.image.
Graphical guide to Windows 3.1 in DosBox Site to host freely available tools.shareware/freeware. Windows 3.x drivers and software hosted by gulikoza S3 Trio/64 v1.41B5 (S3 Vision 64 or Vision864) Tseng ET4000 Tseng ET3000 Paradise Joystick SoundBlaster 16 Windows 3.x WIN32 Video for Windows WinG Other site with drivers Need to see if Windows 3.x works with FreeDOS. If so then use my 2GB FreeDOS.img from 9x thread.
Accord to this: it does. Need to verify. Info on CD Audio driver?
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Stolen from here because I'm too lazy to boot up 3.x: Windows 3.1/3.11 will play audio CDs by one of the following procedures. Double click on the 'Accessories' group. Double click on the 'Media Player'. Click on 'Devices', and choose 'CD Audio' from the list that appears. Click on the 'Play' button. If you do not have a choice for CD Audio follow the steps below, this will install the driver that is necessary to play the music CDs. Double click the 'Main' group.
Double click on 'Control Panel'. Double click on 'Drivers'. From the list of drivers,see if there is a 'MCI CD Audio'. If this choice is present, place a music CD in the CD-ROM and double click on the driver. If this choice is not present, click on 'ADD'.
Select the 'MCI CD Audio', and click OK. Place the Windows 3.x disk 6 into the floppy drive and type 'A: ' for the path. This will install the CD Audio driver into Windows.
My family’s first computer was an desktop with an 25Mhz processor and 4MB of RAM that my parents purchased when I was in grade school. It had and on its 160MB HDD. I can remember creating graphics in, playing and, listening to audio CDs using the CD-ROM (we didn’t have a CD player back then), and of course playing Windows games (my favorite was ). DOSBox does not emulate Windows 3.1 by itself, but Windows 3.1x can be installed in DOSBox. Fortunately I still had a copy of my parents’ Windows 3.1 floppy disks that I was able to transfer to a CD-R for easier access on my PC (I don’t even have a floppy drive in my desktop PC anymore). You could also put the Windows files into a folder such as C: DOSBox WinInstall instead of using a CD-R (you’ll have to adapt the instructions below if you do). If you don’t have a copy of Windows 3.1, you’ll need to.
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Installing Windows Assuming you have already, start it up, put the Windows 3.1 CD into your optical drive, and switch to the D: drive in DOSBox to run setup.exe. Run the Windows setup in DOSBox Run the Express setup. Once Windows starts you’ll need to enter a user name. When prompted to install a printer, select the generic/text printer. If you still have DOOM installed from the first post in this series, you may be promted to select the application name for C: DOOM DM.EXE. Just choose “None of the above” and continue with the installation. Once it’s complete, select Reboot.
DOSBox will quit, so you’ll have to start it back up. Once the Windows 3.1 setup is complete, select Reboot, then start DOSBox again. To launch Windows, type cd windows to change to the Windows directory, then type win to start Windows. At this point Windows should load successfully, but without sound. We need to install sound and video drivers to get the most out of the Windows 3.1 experience.
Installing Sound Drivers DOSBox can emulate several sound devices, including the widely-compatible Sound Blaster 16. In order to use this device, we’ll need to install a Sound Blaster driver in Windows 3.1. I found for the installation process, but in case that link goes down I’m including instructions here. First, and unzip them into C: DOSBox Drivers SB. This will make them available in DOSBox at C: Drivers SB. Unzip the Sound Blaster drivers to C: DOSBox Drivers SB. Start up DOSBox, switch to the SB directory and run install.exe.
Run the Sound Blaster installation. Choose the full installation. At the next screen, be sure to set the Microsoft Windows 3.1 path to “C: WINDOWS” before proceeding. Be sure to set the Windows 3.1 path to C: WINDOWS On the next screen, you must change the Interrupt setting (IRQ) to match DOSBox’s configuration. By default DOSBox uses 7 (it would only be different if you changed it in the dosbox.conf file), so you’ll need to change it from “5” to “7.” Make sure the Interrupt setting matches how DOSBox is configured. Continue with the rest of the installation.
It may take a few minutes to complete. If you are prompted to replace the MIDIMAP.CFG file, select either “Backup” or “Proceed” and continue the installation. Once it is finished, exit DOSBox, then restart it and launch Windows. You should hear the ta-da or chime sound when Windows starts and see a new Audio Software group. At this point, just for fun, I like to open Accessories Media Player and open canyon.mid. This is a MIDI track that came with Windows 3.1.
It should start playing if everything is setup correctly. You can listen to canyon.mid in the Media Player to test MIDI playback.
Installing Video Drivers By default DOSBox emulates an S3 graphics card, and by installing an S3 graphics driver we can run Windows 3.1 in 1024×768 with 64K color. You can grab the driver and read instructions (and some good troubleshooting steps) on the same page used for the Sound Blaster , but again I’ve included instructions here in case that link goes down. Download the and unzip them to C: DOSBox Drivers S3 so they are available in DOSBox at C: Drivers S3. Unzip the S3 drivers into C: DOSBox Drivers S3. Start up DOSBox, switch to the Windows directory, and run setup.
Run Windows setup to configure the S3 graphics driver. The Windows setup will allow installation of the S3 graphics driver. Select the Display setting and press Enter to change it from “VGA.” Select the Display setting to change it from “VGA.” On the next screen, arrow down and select “Other (Requires disk provided by hardware manufacturer),” then enter “C: Drivers S3” as the path where the files can be found. Select “Other” as the Display type. Enter “C: Drivers S3” as the path where the S3 driver files are located.
On the next screen you can choose which driver to install up to 1024×768 64K (anything higher probably won’t work). Because I intend to use Windows 3.1 mostly for gaming, I’m going to stick with 800×600 at 256 colors (which is the highest resolution/color that many games will support). Select a driver to use up to 1024×768 64K. For gaming, 800×600 256 colors is probably best. Continue with the installation.
If you are prompted to enter the path to the driver files again, enter “C: Drivers S3.” Once the installation is complete, enter win at the DOSBox prompt to launch Windows. You should now see an 800×600 screen and be able to set the wallpaper to the included 256 color pattern to verify your graphics driver is working. Now you can decorate Windows 3.1 with exciting 256 color wallpaper! This is all you need to run many games (like the aforementioned King’s Quest VI Enhanced), but in a future post I may cover some additional settings and drivers for improving the gaming experience further. Posted in Tagged, Post navigation.