[HN Gopher] Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
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Windows 3.1 Flash Edition
Author : picture
Score : 86 points
Date : 2022-07-12 05:52 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (sdomi.pl)
(TXT) w3m dump (sdomi.pl)
| cable2600 wrote:
| Too bad it does not have Sound Blaster emulation.
| ranma42 wrote:
| For coreboot there are actually some interesting low-level
| emulation options: The PCH has "I/O Trap" settings, where you
| can set about 4 ISA I/O ranges to be trapped (generates an SMI,
| so the SMM code can handle it), so it should be possible to
| emulate the Sound Blaster I/O port behavior.
|
| I don't know if the trap mechanism allows you to also trap the
| ISA DMA ports, which you'd need to do for DMA emulation.
|
| Slightly higher level you could use classic VMM or more modern
| hypervisor functionality to do the emulation.
| dkonofalski wrote:
| I'm very confused by this... It says Windows 3.1 but the Recycle
| Bin and screenshot clearly show Windows 9x. The Minesweeper
| screenshot is definitely from Windows 3.x, though. What sort of
| wizardry is this?
| kotaKat wrote:
| Calmira! It's a third party shell replacement for Program
| Manager that provides a Win9x "feel".
|
| http://www.calmira.de/
| ilikepi wrote:
| Reminds me of the shell replacement Microsoft released to
| provide a Win95-style UI in Windows NT 3.51[1]. I ran it for
| a while in 95/96. Somewhere in my closet I still have the CD-
| ROM pack with the OS and the addon...
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51#NewShell
| timbit42 wrote:
| I much prefer WPS4WIN which implements OS/2's WorkPlace Shell
| on Windows 3.x. Here are some screenshots:
| http://toastytech.com/guis/wps.html
|
| I combine this with a Windows 3.x tool called MAKEOVER which
| lets you edit the window buttons in your video driver. This
| lets me make the window buttons in the Windows apps look like
| OS/2 buttons.
| layer8 wrote:
| Wow, I had forgotten about those weird tabbed notebooks. :)
| a_t48 wrote:
| Oh, I remember this person - they wrote the minecraft server in
| bash.
| trilinearnz wrote:
| Fascinating. So he's loaded a full instance of Dos/Win3.1 onto
| the chip used for the Thinkpad's BIOS itself? Very cool.
|
| One thing I didn't understand was why it was necessary to
| dismantle the laptop as shown in the first pic. Some more details
| around that would be useful. Presumably something about getting
| around the flashing limitations if one was to attempt it purely
| from a software approach?
| mappu wrote:
| Haruhi is an anachronism here, that was well into the Windows XP
| era.
| corrral wrote:
| I was worried someone had re-created Win 3.1 in Flash and was
| like "but how will I view that?" but this is much cooler.
|
| Also, props for having the best Gem in the site header.
|
| [EDIT] Also, this site and all the "friends / cool people" sites
| on main page are _outstanding_. If this is what The Youths are up
| to, they might be alright after all.
|
| [EDIT EDIT] sorry for assuming you're one of The Youths if you're
| not, most of the photos on the other sites (jesus, that comes off
| creepy, sorry again) looked fairly young so I made some
| assumptions.
| Dwedit wrote:
| It would not surprise me if someone managed to build DosBox
| running inside of Flash. Maybe a build made for ASMJS could
| (slowly) work.
| pjmlp wrote:
| With Cheerpx thanks WebAssembly.
|
| https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/
| freedomben wrote:
| at the bottom of the page:
|
| > (c) sdomi 2010-2022
|
| fwiw
| corrral wrote:
| Spotted that after I posted, probably makes something around
| 24 the lowest likely age, but I'm _just_ old enough that that
| 's still The Youths to me :-)
|
| [EDIT] Anyway I wasn't trying to be weird about this, just
| complimenting some awesome young people (some of the others
| definitely appear to be in the "young people" range) so I'll
| just leave it there. I'm just going to quietly check out
| these delightful throwback hobbyist sites and not engage
| again so I stop being such an awkward old weirdo :-)
| half-kh-hacker wrote:
| > The Youths
|
| for context: you've stumbled on the queer tech subculture of
| the fediverse; we're mostly in our 20s or teens
|
| > sites on main page are outstanding
|
| maia's is my favourite
| Narishma wrote:
| (2019)
| int_19h wrote:
| How soon before we can squeeze a basic Linux distro into UEFI?
| rsend1 wrote:
| I put a nearly full TinyCore Linux distribution (incl GUI and
| WiFi drivers) into the ROM of my Thinkpad X210 using Coreboot,
| fun little project.
| int_19h wrote:
| I suppose a better question then is, why isn't this routinely
| done for factory firmware? It seems that such a distro would
| be immensely helpful for any kind of recovery. Not to mention
| that, if it has a web browser, it could be used in a pinch to
| get stuff done even on a machine with a failed SSD etc.
| woleium wrote:
| that's already possible
| sparcpile wrote:
| With the EFI stub in the Linux kernel and the ability to
| embed an initrd in the kernel, you can boot a small
| distribution with just the kernel file. The only issue is
| that it takes a long time to load a very large kernel into
| memory like that.
|
| I tried that with a buildroot based hypervisor I created for
| my home lab.
| [deleted]
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