Posts Tagged ‘win3.1’

Proof of Concept:: Win3.1 running on Gen6 w/Angstrom + DosBox

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

After reading the post on a Gen7 booting win3.1, I thought I would give it a shot on a Gen6.

DosBox has serious RAM implications on Gen6 hardware, so I opted to install the windows files from my PC and transfer them over to the Archos 5 IMT.

The Result?

The process was very similar to the post listed below:

I installed DosBox on my PC.  copied the Win3.1 files from the ISO, ran DosBox and mounted the folder where the Win3.1 files reside.  I then created another folder called Windows, and mounted that to a separate drive letter in DosBox.  I then ran the setup, and went through the installation process, installing the OS to the “Windows” directory I created/mounted.

Once finished, I transferred the new “Windows” directory over to my unit,, booted up angstrom and ran DosBox.

I then mounted the “Windows” directory to “C:”, then cd’d into it and ran “win.com”.

Success.  :)

Cheers

~Spz0

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Engadget asked and someone delivered it seems… Win 3.1

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

When engadget reported about our adventures they jokingly said – but it doesn’t run windows 3.11 yet.

Well who knows if that inspired this guy or not, but sure there is now a report of Windows 3.1 running on an Android device.

Thanks to aDosBox this should be possible across Android devices – including the Archos5 IT. Didn’t expect it to happen that fast. I took a look at bochs but it wouldn’t compile for me. I ignored dosbox for some reason – which is also available for Ångström. Ok what’s next? Surprise me! OS/2? Or at least a video of someone running dosbox and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on an Archos5 IT?

bootnote: as stated on the adosbox page it currently does not run on devices without a keyboard. Plain dosbox under Ångström works just fine (cf. Spz0′s funny adventures on his A5).

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