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Thread ID: 135330 2013-10-21 13:20:00 Windows 8.1 to 3.11 upgrade Mirddes (10) Press F1
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1356692 2013-10-21 13:20:00 is it possible to upgrade or do i have to reinstall? Mirddes (10)
1356693 2013-10-21 19:04:00 Why don't you try it and then you can tell us? linw (53)
1356694 2013-10-21 19:48:00 No there is no upgrade path from Windows 8.1 to Windows 3.11, you will have to do a clean install. Don't forget to reformat your drive to FAT. Agent_24 (57)
1356695 2013-10-21 19:59:00 Also you can't have more than a handful of megabytes of RAM as Windows 3.11 is 16-bit. pcuser42 (130)
1356696 2013-10-21 22:33:00 And it is hard to find good 16 bit progs anymore. linw (53)
1356697 2013-10-21 23:44:00 is it possible to upgrade or do i have to reinstall?

Upgrade to Win9 beta, divide by 3 to get you to Win3. Then upgrade to 3.11
You will need to divide the hard drive by 2 to get to Fat16 .
Also take your 300G hard drive and partition it to 150 2Gig partitions.
You will now be able to play wolf3D & Doom if you exit Win3.11 into Dos. Well worth the effort I think
I also recommend a 3rd party mem management program (qemm) , else anything over 640K wont be used.
1101 (13337)
1356698 2013-10-23 02:38:00 Think I've still got a pair of EDO modules somewhere...
16MB each..should be heeeeaps :D
KarameaDave (15222)
1356699 2013-10-23 03:41:00 And it is hard to find good 16 bit progs anymore.

I have a few. Might have an 8MB stick of RAM and a 365MB hard drive to run them on, too.
FoxyMX (5)
1356700 2013-10-23 08:35:00 Well this goes the other way almost - www.youtube.com johnd (85)
1356701 2013-10-23 08:45:00 While the kernel is on a different planet there are some similarities between the two interfaces - no start menu, ........ johnd (85)
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