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PC 486SX (ao486) • Getting Windows 3.1 Games to Work

MISTerFPGA about 9 days ago

I have tried a VHD for Win3.1 and this works well.I have tried to add an ISO for a CDROM as a second drive but no other drive is showing up.How can load this game or can I build a new VHD with Win3.1 and this game?Is the ExoWin collection able to be impor …

Give me old PC game recs

Neo Geo Forums about 2 months ago

System: Cyrix 486dx2 50mhz 16MB RAM Gravis Ultrasound Trident VGA Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.1 I have obvious stuff like Doom, early Duke nukem and commander keen already. The PC will not be able to handle 3D stuff unless it is extremely primitive, think no …
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Crystal 4237b/IPLAW35 sound card won't work on my 286

VCFed about 3 months ago

I have purchased a [Crystal 4237b]-based soundcard called (if I have understood things correctly) Aopen IPLAW35 (seen in action [here] for my 286. Finding [this Vogon thread] through googling, I clicked my way on to the manufacturer's website, where t …

Help identifying a sound card

VCFed about 3 months ago

Recently acquired a Compaq 4/66i running Windows 3.1 and it happens to have a card which I cannot identify. Looks to have a OPL2 chip, can I assume this is a clone of sorts? Manuals, drivers, or suggestions would be nice. Thanks! …

486 DX2/66 Graphics Card

VCFed about 4 months ago

Any suggestions here for a Gateway 2000 486 DX2/66? I have one ISA slot and one PCI slot available. I have an ISA SoundBlaster 16 in the other ISA Slot. I wouldn't mind maybe adding an ethernet card in the unused slot after I select a graphics card. Op …

Hello from Michigan! Compaq EP Deskpro 3DFX Build

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello all! I stumbled onto this forum looking for specific information of SCSI ULTRA terminators. After looking around some more, I figured I would register! I have been working in I.T. since 1996 at a very young age and have always loved the old stuff. I …

Is there a case to be made for the 386?

VCFed about 5 months ago

My earliest family computer I can remember was a 386 running windows 3.1, so I've long had some fascination with the CPU. It must have been versatile, since they were still being manufactured for niche roles as late as 2009. That is some very long legs for …

Windows 3.1 and TCP/IP over Ethernet

VCFed about 5 months ago

I recently got a vintage laptop: Compaq LTE 5000, with a Pentium-75 CPU and 24 MB RAM, which I already have running Windows 3.1. I would like this machine to have Internet connectivity (yes, I know Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows NT 3.51 have alre …

Hello from Ohio

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello all. My name is Joe and I currently am working on a Zenith Z-Star EX laptop, I have an OPL2LPT sound card on the parallel port from Serda Shop, it's not perfect as the drivers aren't always supported by DOS games, sadly I didn't get the chance to tr …

How do I install the Windows 3.1 S3 Trio 64 VGA drivers?

VCFed about 6 months ago

Hello guys, I don't see a setup.exe or .bat or .msi file in the file folder. How do I install? I still have to find and install the DOS driver version later, but lets focus on the Win3.1 driver first. Thanks! …

Crescendo MIDI player for Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, & Mac-OS System 7.1

VCFed about 7 months ago

Does anyone have the Crescendo MIDI player for Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, or Mac-OS System 7.1? Alternatively, does anyone know where I can get it on the web? If you do have a link or download, please share it here. …

INT 24 DOS error message

VCFed about 8 months ago

I'm trying to revive a CompuAdd laptop that has DOS on it. When these were originally sold, they came with Windows 3.1 installed. What's holding me back from reinstalling Windows 3.1 is that I can't get the floppy drive to work. I always get a Abort, Retry …

EMS and XMS memory distribution on a 286 motherboard

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi, I have 4MB on my motherboard 286. How much XMS and EMS memory should I put? for example 2MB for EMS and 1MB for XMS ? 640K conventional memory and the rest (384k) for XMS (1430K XMS) ? in case I install windows 3.0 or windows 3.1 Thank you. …
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IBM PC/AT Memory Allocation Question

VCFed about 9 months ago

I am trying to load Windows 3.1 onto my IBM PC/AT. I get error when I load the Windows 3.1 Setup Disk. ERROR: no available extended memory was found . XMS driver not installed. I assume Windows 3.1 needs more than 640K of memory to load. Is that correct …
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Video • MCGA Games (PC/DOS) - LCD vs CRT

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hello everyone,It just happened that I've thought of an old topic about MCGA hardware..MCGA monitor at 15 KHz?That's when I started to wonder "How would MCGA games have had looked on an actual 15 KHz monitor ?"So I decided to do a little bit of experiment …

PC Emulation • Need help with DOSBox for webOS (HP Veer)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi everyone! I really need help with an unofficial DOSBox port for webOS. I've installed Windows 3.1, and there aren't any problems, except when I move my mouse, it uses absolute mode and is so off from my finger. I haven't found any way to turn off absol …

Video • Any 3D accelerators with drivers for Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2 Warp 4?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Next to no one in existence has proof of 3D acceleration on these OSes. Why? What is the point of an OS being fully 32-bit if there isn't 3D acceleration? 3D acceleration came alongside OSes upgrading to 32-bit in the mid-1990s, so they go hand-in-hand, e …

General Old Hardware • Windows 3.1 won't boot after Memaker; actually it comes down to DOS=HIGH,UMB

Vogons about 10 months ago

Fixed up a Prolinea that had a damaged PS/2 circuit and was able find most of the drivers for the machine.Wanted to play Dune II and some Monster Bash and ran MemMaker to free up some conventional memory. Seems it broke Windows 3.1 though! After typing "w …

General Old Hardware • Problems getting Windows 95 OSR2 on a CF card

Vogons about 11 months ago

I never had this problem before and I wonder what is causing it. The CF card is working well, I can copy large files to it and off it without problems on my modern pc. Yet, when I try to install Windows 95 OSR2 on it, I get these issues:It usually throws …

Windows • Civilization II classic via WineVDM - FMVs work on one computer, but not the other.

Vogons about 11 months ago

I learned recently that the 16-bit version of Civilization II can be played on modern Windows using WineVDM, and it works, but there are two little problems, neither breaking. I know I could just play the 32-bit Multiplayer Gold Edition, or use DOSBox and …

General Old Hardware • Any hope of fixing an NEC 2x SCSI CD-ROM that won't read?

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have scads of old IDE CD-ROM drives which all work, but I have one NEC CDR-210 Double Speed SCSI drive that just won't read any disks and I'd love to get it working if at all possible. I'm pretty sure this drive was part of a MediaVision CD upgrade kit …

General Old Hardware • The ECS Local Bus - Overview and Benchmarks on a 486DX-50 system

Vogons about 11 months ago

The pre-VLB/PCI 486 era is of great interest to me, in particular the attempts of several manufacturers to overcome ISA bus limitations by introducing their own proprietary local bus implementations, none of which seems to have been successful as shortly …

Looks like TLS 1.3 has been made to work on Windows 3.1. Can the same be done for System 7?

68Kmla about 11 months ago

In my web crawling today I came across an article about a WinGPT client for Windows 3.x. In that piece there was a paragraph where a developer was able to coax a TLS Library into building on a early 1990s version of Windows. Modern TLS/SSL on 16- …

Software • WinGPT, AI chat bot for Windows 3.1

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hey everyone, I wanted to share my latest project that I've been working on for Windows 3.1. It's called WinGPT, and it's an AI chat bot, based on ChatGPT/the OpenAI API.It has the ability to connect directly via TLS 1.2/1.3 to OpenAI's servers, so you do …

General Old Hardware • Having Massive Issues with Win 3.1

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello, Having huge issues with Windows 3.1I did a fresh install of DOS 6.22 on the following rig-486 DX2/80 CPU (40 MHz bus)-UM4980 VLB motherboard, 256k cache-20 Mb RAM (1x16Mb, 1x4Mb 72 pin SIMMS)-VLB video (Trident 94xx series, IIRC) 1 Mb RAM, integrat …