![]() ![]() #HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX INSTALL#If you don’t hear any sounds you’ll need to install SoundBlaster drivers. Once the installation is complete - all 20MB of it - you’ll be greeted with the familiar ding sound and the very simple Windows 3.11 opening screen. The above commands mount the emulated C drive (dos), thus allowing you to change directories to install using the CD (Change Directory) command and then simply type setup.exe to begin Windows 3.11 installation. Then, using the commands shown below, you mount C:\ and begin the installation. You can, of course, search Google for Windows 3.1, bearing in mind that it’s not abandonware and Microsoft holds the copyright. I then found my old Windows 3.1 floppy disks and using a USB floppy drive, made images of each of the eight disks and then extracted them to a subdirectory of C:\dos, called install. This is simply a case of creating a directory on one of your hard drives - dos, for example - downloading the program and installing it into that directory. ![]() I chose DOSBox Portable this time around because, once set up, I wanted to run it off a pen drive and use it on whichever machine I chose. I could have used a virtual machine and installed either Windows 3.1 or Windows XP, but somehow that’s not as much fun as DOSBox emulation. As mentioned in my previous article, My 10 Favourite Games Of All Time, I’ve always wanted to play Chip’s Challenge on my main PC, but 16-bit games or programs won’t run on 64-bit systems. This is one of those exercises that are completely useless in many practical terms, but it’s fun to do, especially if you have some 16-bit games laying around that won’t run on Windows 10. ![]()
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