I am running Windows 7, although this is not just a boast of my ability to function in an atmosphere involving an extremely high learning curve the OS being so patently counter-intuitive while demanding an attitude of wholesale pedantry.
However, there is an OEM version of 5. The only question, really, is, can I get the floppies to function after all these years, or, can I at least restore the data onto newer, fully functional copies.
The only real problem to getting up to at least 95 would be in fooling the upgrade versions, as all my OS versions are store-bought. Remember when Egghead had walk-in stores? I still remember the "innovative" procedure we stumbled upon as students to set up the venerable Windows for Workgroups 3.
Then just ran the setup from the first folder and it finds all the rest of the folders itself. We tried this as an experiment one day before the internet and it worked, and of course, we were really impressed at how fast it installed compared to inserting all those floppies. I think we got more kicks out of installing it than using it. The zip file the OP downloaded and the method I've described is the network install method for deployment across an organisation.
I think we used the same method for other floppy releases of the time - Win NT, 95 etc. Now I remember, you gather all the setup files from each disk into a single folder and run setup from there - it doesn't ask for any floppies. BTW it was much easier to setup 3. The big difference is you don't have to use virtual HD and FD images - you just give it a folder on your hard drive and drag stuff in.
I have a Win 3. Win 95 VM now plays with Vmware player 3 on Win 7 fullscreen x If you have the same problems and I think it is likely if you use Windows Professional , try putting the wrapper version of mprapi.
See the following Microsoft documents about DLL search order for more details:. VM Back Search this site. VMware Command Line Tools. I used VirtualBox 1. Prerequisites What do you need apart from having a basic DOS 6. If that happens: hit Return until it quits and rerun setup with the same choice.
Installation for Windows for Workgroups 3. Limitations: see under Win 3. PS dated some more limitations from when I originally wrote this post: - WfW 3. Issue is potentially memory related.. Save your changes. If any problems occur, just write back your backup copies of WIN. The "conventional" method: Make a backup copy of WIN. The "secure" method: Use a program to change the logo.
Winlogo K is a Shareware program that will do the job. It'll inform you if your file is too large to be embedded into WIN. Here you can download three startup logos that I created reduced in size to fit to the page. For changing the system controls it's necessary to patch your VGA driver. You may want to use a resource editor for this, e. ScummVM is an awesome emulator for playing LucasArts games that is available for many platforms.
Back then I missed that because of lacking hardware and knowledge. I have to admit that this is quite unstable. I often stumbled upon stability issues in combination with the drivers and tweaks mentioned above. Often the system just crashed while using network-enabled applications or did not boot at all.
The Windows software also includes a FTP client that really can be used for establishing connections to current servers. Using the web browsers Internet Explorer 5. It is a senseless waste of time. If you still want to give this experiment a try you might want to have a look at the following instructions for Windows 3.
This also works fine for VMware environments. Sir, You have written a interesting Blog. I like it very much and appreciate the efforts you have put behind it. No, it is actually not a waste of time to have the network up and running since that is the easiest way to copy files in the VM instead of shutting it down and mounting it on the host.
Good article anyway. Hey Elena, thanks for the feedback — glad to hear that at least some things helped you! Also I checked out some abandonware, such as Microsoft Visual Basic, etc. Hi Christian, thank you for your informative site. I have doing a bit of retro computing as part of a tech cleanup and seeing what old software I could get spun up on VMs which included old versions of Windows 3.
The challenge of pulling off software, including from 5. I presume the other ISO programs out there will work similarly. The RawRead applications tend not to support the old 5.
I am now trying to get the Win32S subsystem working on Win 3. Running retro operating systems and applications virtualized on modern computers is really becoming a problem. As you experienced, recent hypervisors are dropping support for old devices. I saw that some retro gamers use this. It would have been great for me to have a network back in the 90s.
UltraISO is very useful! But without a license it was kinda useless.
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