Win31DOSBox Win31DOSBox: Windows 3.1 for 64-bit Windows 64-bit Windows can run software written for Windows 3.x only through the use of an emulator such as DOSBox. This page provides a setup program that makes it easy to create a Windows 3.11 system that runs under DOSBox. The setup program does the installation for you, but you will need to provide a full set of Windows 3.1x or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installation files, disks, or disk images, or a Windows 3.1x or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installation CD (or CD image file), or an MSDN download of Windows for Workgroups 3.11. You may use the installation files or disks from any roman-alphabet version of Windows 3.11.
( No product code is required when installing Windows 3.x.) Unlike most other Windows 3.1x implementations for modern Windows, this system can print to your current Windows default printer or any other printer installed in your host Windows system, and it can exchange text between the Windows 3.1x clipboard and the host Windows clipboard. This system includes sound, display, and joystick drivers, but it does not include advanced features like WinG and Win32s, which can be added by following the described below. It also includes icons that will install WinVideo and QuickTime for Windows if you want them. Note: This system was updated 2 December 2018 with a copy of DOSBox.exe based on the latest official code. Windows 3.1x installation files (or disks, disk images, CD, or CD image) should be easy to find on eBay or elsewhere.
MSDN (VisualStudio.com) subscribers can download and use enwfw311.exe, which contains the latest version of Windows for Workgroups 3.1x, or any other roman-alphabet language version of the MSDN download of WfW311 (e.g. Microsoft's license agreement for Windows 3.x gave you the right to make an archival copy of the installation media. Perhaps you can find that copy and use it.
May 17, 2006 Why is DOSbox so slow? ElGuapo 2006-05-16 13:07:55 UTC #1. Being a software guy (and not one that deals in emulation code) and not really a hardware guy, can anyone explain to me why DOSBox is so slow? JP1 2006-05-16 19:25:51 UTC #11. You probably haven’t configured something right. If the games are too slow, either. Yeah, Spectre was the reason I even bothered going through all the trouble with Windows 3.11. As a kid we used to sneak into the computer room at school and needed to use the principals password to get admin access to play the game on an old Apple IIe.
Note: The MD5 hash for the authentic MSDN version of enwfw311.exe is AFA00ADE9F31F4C4470D2D5B1462D5D7 When you have the Windows 3.1x installation files or disks or disk images,. Extract the contents of the archive to any convenient directory. The contents include a folder named Win31DOSBox with a number of subfolders. Find the Win31DOSBox SETUP folder in the files that you extracted from the downloaded system setup archive. (I assume that you have Windows 3.11, but the installation should work with the earlier 3.1 version.) 2.
Then copy any of the following into the Win31DOSBox Setup folder, depending on how you obtained the Windows 3.11 installation files:. An.ISO file that contains the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installation files (typically found with a name like Winfw311.iso).
Just copy the.ISO file into the folder; do not mount it or extract items from it. A set of the six to nine.IMG files containing disk images of the Windows 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installation floppy disks. Just copy the full set of image files; do not mount them or extract them. (Different versions will have different numbers of disks.).
A copy of the Microsoft Developer Network self-extracting archive of the Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installation files, named enwfw311.exe. (or the corresponding file for any other roman-alphabet version).
Just copy the archive; you need not extract the contents. If you have all the installation files (from an ISO or a set of IMG files) in a single folder, then copy the full set of installation files. Do not make separate subfolders; simply copy all the files into the Win31DOSBox Setup folder. Run InstallWin31DOSBox.exe. If you copied an ISO or a set of IMG files, this installer program will extract the contents of those files and then install Windows 3.11.
Note: If you are installing Windows for Workgroups, be prepared to wait a minute or more while Windows Setup displays a message saying it is trying to identify your network adapter. (It won't find a network adapter, but I can't figure out how to make it skip this step.) Troubleshooting: If you see any error messages while Windows is being installed, delete the entire contents of the Win31DOSBox C-DRIVE WINDOWS folder and try again. You may also need to empty the SETUP folder and copy the installation files into it again. When the installer is done, it will offer to run Win31DOSBox.exe to start Windows 3.11. Use Win31DOSBox.exe in the future to run Windows 3.11.
Details: In brief summary this is what the InstallWin31DOSBox.exe program does:. If you use an ISO or EXE version of the installation files, it expands the files and tests whether you are installing Windows 3.1x or Windows for Worgroups 3.11. It then makes a copy of the Windows 3.x installer's SETUP.SHH automated setup file, modifies it (manipulating its format to use ANSI instead of Unicode) by adding printers, changing various options, etc. It then runs the Windows 3.1 setup program, using the customized automated setup file created in the previous step, and exits the new installation. It then copies system files, sound, video, and other drivers from the Storage AddFiles folder into the Windows folder, and modifies SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI to use the S3 video drivers, SoundBlaster sound driver, and the joystick driver.
It also copies two PC Magazine utilities by Douglas Boling, HK and WINCMD, and a program-group creator program by Alan G. Hill named GROUPBLD. It then starts up Windows 3.1x again, using WINCMD to run GROUPBLD and create and modify program manager groups, and then exits Windows 3.1x again. It then offers to start the fully-installed Windows 3.1x system. After these steps are complete, the system is then ready to run at any time from the Win31DOSBox.exe program.
You may delete the SETUP and DRIVERS folders after you have the system working as you want it. You can use the Windows 3.11 Control Panel to change resolution and color depth. I built this Windows 3.11 system by following the provided by Dominus on the Vogons.org site. (I also got some ideas from.) Note: If you want to emulate a Tseng 4000 video card instead of the default S3 card, you should change the dosbox.conf file in the DOSBox folder; study various DOSBox documents online for further information. To open a document file from the host system in the default Windows 3.11 application for that file (for example, to open a.WRI file in Windows 3.11 Write.exe), drop the file on the Win31DOSBox.exe icon. If all goes well, Windows 3.11 will open, and the file will open automatically in its default application. When you close the file, Windows 3.11 will automatically exit.
(In Windows 3.11, the folder containing the document will be visible as drive Y.) To 'map' a single folder in the host system to a drive letter in Win311, drop a folder from the host Windows Explorer on the Win31DOSBox.exe icon. The folder will be visible in Windows 3.11 as drive Y. To open a document in your Win311 system in the default application for that document in the host Windows system (for example, to open a.DOC file in Word 2016), use the Open File with Host App program found in the Win31DOSBox program group. To copy a file from your Win311 system to the desktop folder of your host Windows system, use the Copy File to Host Desktop item found in the Win31DOSBox program group. To print from Win311, print to the default printer in Win31; the output will be sent to your default Windows printer. Three printers are provided (the names will include the version number of the host Windows system, as shown below for Windows 10):.
Win10 Printer: This is the default host Windows printer. If you use the Win311 Control Panel, Printers menu, you can 'connect' to a different output, named C: PTR SELECT.PS. When you print to this output, the host system will pop up a list of installed printers for you to choose the one to print to. Win10 Clipboard: This 'prints' to the host Windows clipboard. Mostly used for copying text to the clipboard as described below. PDF to Win10: This 'prints' a PDF file to the host Windows desktop.
If the document you are printing is untitled, the resulting PDF will have an arbitrary filename based on the current date and time. Change the default host printer for this system by following the instructions in the section elsewhere on this page. To copy from the 'host' clipboard to the Win31 clipboard, press Ctrl-Shift-Alt-V. (This runs the Clipboard to Host item in the Win31DOSBox program group.) A message will appear briefly saying that the clipboard has been imported. Now press Ctrl-V to paste that text into the current Win31 application. You may also want to experiment with pressing the Pause key (on a full-sized keyboard) or Ctrl-Alt-F4 (on any keyboard); these use different methods for importing text from the host directly to a Win31 applications; the method used by the Pause key may be able to copy accented characters; the method used by Ctrl-Alt-F4 will only import plain ASCII text.
To copy text already in the Win31 clipboard to the 'host' clipboard, press Ctrl-Shift-Alt-C. (This runs the Get Host Clipboard item in the Win31DOSBox program group.) A brief message will appear saying the text has been exported. To toggle between windowed and full-screen mode, press Ctrl-Alt-Enter. ( This and other keyboard shortcuts are different from those in standard DOSBox. Use the System Menu - the icon at the upper left corner of the DOSBox window - and choose Keyboard Help. For details.) Keyboard shortcuts: These keyboard shortcuts may be useful; they are not the same as the shortcuts in standard DOSBox!
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