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Thread ID: 88270	2008-03-21 08:22:00	Windows 3.1 Please	a helpless random (13059)	Press F1

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651363	2008-03-21 19:57:00	Have fun finding drivers!:eek: :lol: (if you want the VM I have drivers for the display, sound and networking on it)	jwil1 (65)
651364	2008-03-22 04:36:00	im sure its not illegal to upload a 20 odd year old OS lol. I can not find it anywhere and my copy was thrown out ages ago:annoyed: I would greatly appreciate it if you could upload it for me.:thanksIt is illegal. Asking for pirated software or helping others with pirating software is against the forum rules. Please obey them. If someone wishes to give you their old disks, that is different as they are no longer retaining ownership of them.	Jen (38)
651365	2008-03-22 05:52:00	oh sorry, i thought it would be ok to get a 20 year old OS free, ive deleted off my pc. sorry. by the way i also used to have win 3.1 but it got thrown out or lost ages ago.	a helpless random (13059)
651366	2008-03-22 07:10:00	oh sorry, i thought it would be ok to get a 20 year old OS free, ive deleted off my pc. sorry. by the way i also used to have win 3.1 but it got thrown out or lost ages ago. Software is protected by Copyright legislation. In NZ, it's released into the public domain 50 years after the last programmer who worked on it dies.	somebody (208)
651367	2008-03-22 10:08:00	50 years!? That means Visicalc is still not available for free? :p Come on Bob Franklin... :annoyed:	Renmoo (66)
651368	2008-03-22 19:13:00	50 years!? That means Visicalc is still not available for free? :p Come on Bob Franklin... :annoyed: Read the Copyright Act 1994 (or a summary of it) when you get a chance.	somebody (208)
651369	2008-03-22 22:42:00	One could always ask Microsoft New Zealand. I asked Lotus Australia for an update to Lotus Symphony suite back in 1995, they said it had been archived, but they sent me a sixpack of 3.5 floppies with the latest upgrade for free. Still use it occassionally, way ahead of it's time back then!. Big Blue took Lotus over. Lurking.	Lurking (218)
651370	2008-03-22 22:52:00	I still have 3.1 windows, the other day I dug up a big box which had all these smaller boxes or other software and games and even my 386 part's manuals (!). Nostalgic. Good old days when we had like 500+ page user manuals with the softwares (windows) and even games - these days we are just provided a PDF on manual (even windows) other than maybe a 50 page thing. Windows 3.1 was 7 5.25" floppies with the 8th being optional printer drivers. Mine is Win95 upgrade so I need my windows 3.1 for verification :D Have a look at garage sales and 2nd hand stores and auction - should be cheap. Yes, you do need some kind of DOS (may not be MS-DOS) could be PC-DOS DR-DOS and others ... :p When we bought our 386 our 1st, the guy didn't give us DOS and the receipt just said preloaded but we were still billed for it (is it illegal :confused: ). We bought DOS after a date. I was playing around with it and both 3.1 windows and windows 95 didn't care if you had DOS or not .. all you do is get onto a working PC and format a diskette "format a:/s" - the /s command is to copy system boot files. Then you boot from diskette and do the same to the hard drive format c:/s and then you can install windows 3.1 .. or if you are doing windows 95 upgrade it ask you for the 1st disk of windows 3.1 to quality. Those memory files like himsys (if I remember) are just from windows 3.1 and for windows 95 you don't need DOS drivers - DOS drivers will just make it slower - saying 32bit incompatibility .... all one needed was a bootdisk with a CD driver to use the CDROM - another example of bootdisk was a windows 98 startup disk which loads CD automatically for you... I just finished a game, Circuits Edge - love the old games that you walk around and stuff to suss things out ... That's on my 200Mhz system (althou during the days we played it on the 386). If I bought a new case for it - I actually used the same case as the 386 - if so it meant I could have my 386 there still and my 200Mhz :D - the 50MB HDD has failed but my 1.2GB is still going strong..:cool:	Nomad (952)
651371	2008-03-22 23:44:00	Drivers may not be that hard .. soundcards may have a diskette of DOS drivers, CD drivers are easy via MSCDEX or something that's pretty generic. But you won't get the super duper speeds from windows 3.1 because the software is so old that it just don't support those advanced features, for the motherboard you could probably download the DOS drivers from the manufacturer, the video card you may not be able to use at top resolution but by choosing another monitor you maybe able to make do .. and use a modest high reso. But you won't have all your GEFORCE or whatever features.. and afaik there are a lot of stuff that won't work like wifi, usb, power mgmt, adv features of motherboards and cpus. The motherboard and HDD controller and stuff prob don't require additional software/drivers they may just be able to work in plain vanilla mode with it. If you talk about speed - windows XP prob support more features than it and be faster. Old stuff is fun to play around with. But you should have matching old hardware for old software. My 200Mhz .. its on windows 95. Edit. I see you have a X2 CPU - it won't work in dualcore :D The RAM maybe reduced as the old O.S will not be able to recognise it all, the HDD size will needed to be split in many smaller partitions. Windows 95 - the first (a) version is FAT 16 and that limits to 2GB I think, :p Windows 3.1 is the same :confused:	Nomad (952)
651372	2008-03-23 05:58:00	Ok to the person who had it running in Virtual PC, did it install OK Did you need to install something to slow it's speed down?I ask because I couldn't get Dos 6 and wfw 3.11 working in Virtual PC,	Morgenmuffel (187)
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