dmd3x Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I got a bit nostalgic recently and decided to install Windows 3.11 under VMWare. The Windows 3.11 install CD is not bootable (bootable CDs didn't exist back then I'm pretty sure). I misplaced the original floppy that would have kicked off the Windows 3.11 CD-ROM install, so I tried using my Windows 98 boot floppy disk. It seemed to work OK. After I go through the Windows installation, reboot and try to launch Windows, the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 splash screen comes up and it starts cranking away, but it gives up and says "incorrect DOS version". This leads me to believe that the Windows 98 DOS is not recognized properly by Windows 3.11 because it is newer. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuntsu Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I got a bit nostalgic recently and decided to install Windows 3.11 under VMWare. The Windows 3.11 install CD is not bootable (bootable CDs didn't exist back then I'm pretty sure).I misplaced the original floppy that would have kicked off the Windows 3.11 CD-ROM install, so I tried using my Windows 98 boot floppy disk. It seemed to work OK. After I go through the Windows installation, reboot and try to launch Windows, the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 splash screen comes up and it starts cranking away, but it gives up and says "incorrect DOS version". This leads me to believe that the Windows 98 DOS is not recognized properly by Windows 3.11 because it is newer. Any suggestions? Get a copy of DOS 6.22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hmmm...I did that once, but don't remember how I did it. It was quite awesome though, from boot to desktop about 5 seconds or less. Makes me think of how much faster xp or vista or 7 will boot 20 years from now on those computers when we are at Windows XXVI or something. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neztea Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 my opinion would be to go to this website Here and then try to download the proper book disk that is required. It goes all the way back to I think Dos 5.0 or something. Good luck :) Neztea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 my opinion would be to go to this website Here Also, you can format the drive by "format c: /s" - then copy everything from the disk to the C:\ drive, EXCEPT for command.com - and you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted October 16, 2008 MVC Share Posted October 16, 2008 Here are the other things you will need to get networking and sound and cdrom etc working on your virtual machine http://vmware0.tripod.com/ Don't plan on surfing many websites though -- most of them don't work with the old browsers anymore ;) And there is a driver you will need to enable 1024x768 as well.. Off the top do not recall where I found that info -- but its easy enough to find, just google it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMaster23 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Oh .. I threw up a little bit just looking at that age-old UI again .. how far we've come, and still we whine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted October 16, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted October 16, 2008 Oh .. I threw up a little bit just looking at that age-old UI again .. how far we've come, and still we whine.. It's all relative. Windows 3.x was pleasant to look at compared to, say, Windows 2.0: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnDewCodeRedFreak Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Yup - IE 5 can be installed on Win 3.1x. Sheesh - hard to believe. Now we're almost on Win 7 Beta with IE 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 simple question.. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 simple question..Why? Simple answer, because we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 simple question..Why? Because some of us (including me), have some strange obsession with older operating systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted October 19, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted October 19, 2008 simple question..Why? Because we're nerds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Because we're nerds. And we post to Neowin. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitebread Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Yup - IE 5 can be installed on Win 3.1x. ... Was IE5 released as 16-bit? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldiers33 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 omg the colours on windows 3.11 are aweful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted October 23, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted October 23, 2008 Was IE5 released as 16-bit? :blink: Yes. IE 5 ran on the following operating systems: HP-UX Solaris Windows 2000 Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows NT 4 Windows NT 3.51 Windows 3.11 ... the latter being a 16-bit version. There was also a Macintosh version of IE 5 which was based on a different code base, using a different rendering engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiefloyd_fan Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 what about firefox? 0.0.0.0.01 alpha test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted October 23, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted October 23, 2008 omg the colours on windows 3.11 are aweful You ain't seen nothing yet. This is one of the colour schemes for Windows 3.11 provided by Microsoft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draklin Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 You ain't seen nothing yet. This is one of the colour schemes for Windows 3.11 provided by Microsoft: Microsoft Bob! Oh how I missed Bob. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Was IE5 released as 16-bit? :blink: Yes, and it's probably the latest web browser (other than Netscape 4) to be 16-bit. You ain't seen nothing yet. This is one of the colour schemes for Windows 3.11 provided by Microsoft:<snipped> That makes my eyes hurt REALLY badly. Imagine that on a 60 Hz CRT at 640x480x256. :pinch: what about firefox? 0.0.0.0.01 alpha test? You mean Netscape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted October 24, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted October 24, 2008 what about firefox? 0.0.0.0.01 alpha test? There is no version of Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox which will run on Windows 3.11. 16-bit versions of Netscape up to version 4.x exist however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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