- #Installing windows in dosbox how to#
- #Installing windows in dosbox install#
- #Installing windows in dosbox drivers#
- #Installing windows in dosbox driver#
- #Installing windows in dosbox windows 7#
If everything goes well, you should be greeted by this: Press OK, let it copy the files and click on Restart Windows when prompted. You’ll be prompted to select a resolution.
#Installing windows in dosbox driver#
You’ll be prompted to enter the path to your S3 display driver (a:\s3driv~1 by default). In the Options menu select Change System Settings.įrom VGA combo box select Other driver. Now go to Windows Setup (in Program Manager).
#Installing windows in dosbox drivers#
S3 864 1.41B5 drivers for Windows 3.1 (600k)Įxtract, put into separate folders in your A folder (c:\something\a), restart DOSBox, remount drives, start Windows 3.1 again… Sound Blaster 16 Creative Audio Driver v3.57.14 for Windows 3.1 (2901k) Fortunately, we can fix this easily with installing drivers. Yes, it’s Microsoft Windows 3.1 just like in the 90s.Īs you probably noticed, the resolution is really low (640×480 with 16 colors) and there’s no sound. So click on Restart Computer button.Īfter the DOSBox closes reopen it and enter the mount commands again. Although we could return to the DOS and start the Windows, it’ll just hang until we restart DOSBox. Now we can either Return to MS-DOS or Restart Computer (DOSBox in this case). Also skip the tutorial (click Skip Tutorial).
#Installing windows in dosbox install#
The Setup may ask you if you want to install networking (if its Windows for Workgroups), if it does just press Continue to skip this for now.Īlso click Continue in the Dialog asking you what to do with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT modifications. Now we’re pretty much done with the basic Windows install. It’ll copy the files, just wait a minute or two… This way it will install all components, won’t search for Printers (there’s no one in DOSBox anyway) and won’t try to find any existing DOS apps on disk (there aren’t any apps on the disk so we can skip this as well). I’d recommend you to just deselect all the boxes if you’re not familiar with early Windows’ setup programs. It’ll ask you to confirm the entered values, press Continue again. It’s asking you to enter your name, company name, some product number… Enter the data and click Continue. The Setup will first check if there’s a network adapter in DOSBox, just wait until you see this screen: Windows will copy some files and switch to the graphical part. If you don’t know which one to select, use Express Install. Now you have to press ENTER and you can either select Express Install or Custom Install. If it won’t detect your Windows 3.1 files, restart it and run the mount commands again) Now put the Windows 3.1 installation files to the c:\somepath\a directory (a quick note here: I noticed that DOSBox sometimes won’t recognize new files in existing folders. Create two folders for disk A and C somewhere on your computer and run these commands: mount a c:\somefolder\a
I’m really sorry for this tiny low-res picture, it’s because the scaling doesn’t work nice on my 4K monitorįirst we’re going to mount folders as drives to be able to transfer files around with ease. You’ll be greeted by something like this:
#Installing windows in dosbox how to#
A copy of Windows 3.1 (you can use any release you want, I’ll be using Windows 3.11 for Workgroups English for Central-Eastern Europe)Īt this point I assume that you know how to install the DOSBox itself, un-7zip the files and open DOSBox.DOSBox itself ( ) – this thing has been ported to numerous OSes so it really shouldn’t be a problem.
OK, so we actually don’t need anything really hard to get to run Windows 3.1 on DOSBox – no ROMs, no DOS install media, etc. Set up graphics and sound (in Windows 3.1).With this I mean that we’ll move from Macs (for a while) and rather do some old DOS stuff!
#Installing windows in dosbox windows 7#
But I am sure there will be Windows 7 emulators running somewhere in the cloud or on your watch-sized mobile phone.I haven’t posted anything in a while, so I thought I’d kick this thing off with some DOSBox and Windows 3.1.Īs I don’t want this blog to become a list of old articles about Classic Mac emulation, we’re going to do something different today. If this is true, Windows 7 will soon be a very primitive OS. Considering that the development in IT is growing exponentially, it is likely that the next five years or so, will bring comparable innovations to those of the last 20 years. The DOS era ended only about 20 years ago, but this environment seems unbelievably primitive compared to today's information technology. When I installed WordPerfect, I began to remember how system administration was in those days. I must say I was quite fascinated when I played with DOSBox. There are a couple of frontends that simplify the configuration. To configure settings, such as the screen size or the amount of high memory available to programs (how I miss these good old DOS times), you have to edit the nf file. To run external programs in DOSBox, you have to mount a folder on the host with the command "mount c c:\".
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