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Windows 3.1, any cop? (stifle laughter please!)

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psyjax:
Calum,

Try d-loading the Win 3.1 disks from that site again. I did it and unziped them fine. Maybe your connection "burped" or something.

Anyway,

To install all you have to do is unzip all of the disk files in to one directory (Not in the C: or whatever drive you are installing on). The directory can be any kind of media, a single zip disk, CD, extra HD, partition etc.

You can even just unzip all of the files in to separet flopy drives and name them Disk1 etc. And feed them as the installer asks for them.

If you are installing from one directory (i.e. dumping all of the install data from the various zips in to one place) all you do is select custom setup from the menu, when the installer needs a certain chunk of data it will ask you if it is in the same directory and will even give you a path field to input which directory the data is located.

You should install fine.

I tried it on PC DOS so it should work.

Then

sporkme:
there are several... well... skins for the lack of a better word for win 3.1.  i have tabworks from compaq that organizes the "program groups" into pages in a book... makes 3.1 faster to navigate.

i also have something called feelo that says it makes windows easier to use.  never used it.

i also have several old-school internet tools for 3.1, ranging from the original compuserve distro to software for a 9600 baud modem I remember buying HA!  also a windows-based bbs dialer

if the disks are any good (doubtful) i will zip and post them.

somewhere i have games for windows 3.1 like the blue and the gray, maelstrom, and wolfpack.

i'll dig through this shit and see what i can come up with---i doubt anyone is going to be worried about the copyrights for this software

let's hear it for ski!
let's hear it for dosshell!


the thought of using 3.1 in the days of xp makes me salivate muahahahahah ..or whatever

good luck!

steppy:
I downloaded windows 2.0 but don't have a copy of dos anymore to go with it...does anybody here know where a person could download versions of dos?

Master of Reality:
well....that was interesting. I installed win 98, then win 3.11 for workgroups on a second 174MB hard drive (dont ask), apparently i was trying to use win 3.11 with an incompatible version of DOS, this is what it told me when i tried to restart it. What version of DOS am i supposed to use with win 3.11???
Win 3.11 setup gives you and incredible amount of control compared to newer winders. You even get to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat yourself.
Win 3.11 also fucked up win98 that was on my computer.

[ April 30, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by steppy:
I downloaded windows 2.0 but don't have a copy of dos anymore to go with it...does anybody here know where a person could download versions of dos?
--- End quote ---

where did you dl 2.0 from?

p.s.
welcome to fuckmicrosoft!  

[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

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