Subj : Re: Freedos and Windows 3.x
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : fusion
Date : Fri Feb 23 2024 16:30:15

On 23 Feb 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> There are plain ISOs of Windows 3.11 that don't require Docker out
 pF> there... What I would like to find is a tutorial showing how to get
 pF> networking and better graphics working in Windows 3.11. I don't think
 pF> there are Windows 3.11 drivers for the network and video cards in most
 pF> VM environments, so you end up with low-res video and no networking.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=102121

looks like the AMD PCNET driver works fine (same one i'd use in OS/2 in
VirtualBox) ..  QEMU (and by extension everything based on QEMU) probably supports it. 86box looks like it does too. lots of options.

it's pretty likely at least some of these setups will work very poorly even if they are fully functional.. my win3.11 vbox machine has a jumpy mouse that makes it basically unenjoyable to use.. if you were running a bbs on it though that might be fine. (i wanted to use it to play games!)

dosbox apparently requires one of the forked versions to do one thing, and
perhaps another for the next.. dosbox-x might do everything you want? but then i've had problems with dosbox not properly emulating a serial port (closing the tcp socket for the serial port doesn't drop DTR, so nothing can tell there was a disconnect) ..

but i found a post stating they managed to run win3 at 1600x1200 on dosbox-x? there's hope! lol. tbh i'll probably look into this too. i'm quite fond of win3.. i used to boot my old win3 machine a few times a year because i kept my vacation checklist and some other junk on there. never moved stuff over because it just felt right to do it on there.

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