It replaced the MSDOS Executive with a Program Manager and File Manager similar to those in OS/2 1.x. It combined the 8086, 286, and 386 modes of Windows 2 in to one package. Windows 3.x was the first to gain significant development and commercial traction.
All available for major OSes of that time, like AmigaOS, DOS, Win95, Solaris and even OS/2, RISC OS and BeOS. I've found prior versions of famous emulators, like Snes9x, ZSNES and Vice64. I've recently seen some videos about ancient emulators on YouTube and was wondering how the emulation scene was in the 90s.Windows 365 (CLOUD PC EXPLAINED) MY thoughts on Cloud JOB Hunting Azure Resource Mover Explained Azure How to enable/disable MFA in azure.On my journey trough Web 1.0 and archaic newsgroups.
And since, with WinG, there was already an early form of DirectDraw available." So wasn't Win3.1 suited well enough as a platform for emulators ?", I thought and continued my search across the old web.Well, I've found evidences on some private homepages that there were indeed a few emulation projects written for 16-Bit Windows,But most files are gone by now. On my journey trough Web 1.0 and archaic newsgroupsI've found prior versions of famous emulators, like Snes9x, ZSNES and Vice64.All available for major OSes of that time, like AmigaOS, DOS, Win95, Solaris and even OS/2, RISC OS and BeOS.All were there, except ports for good old (-well, old at least-) Win 3.x." So hey, where are they ?" I asked myself - Since some of todays popular emulation projects started out in the early to mid 90s,According to archived web pages of that era. The File Manager window shows the files generated by the Fortran.So I tracked down several old homepages and emulators.
But that prompt is there!You can start typing to see the message gets garbled. This way normal command.com prompt is loaded, and you can run windows by executing win.com, just like in 3.x.The difference is that upon exiting Windows, you still see "It's now safe to turn off your computer." instead of DOS prompt. It is simply not fully loaded - by default, win.com is automatically loaded instead of command.com, and there's no exit from that (except the "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" option, which I'll explain later).However, you can change BootGUI=1 to 0 in msdos.sys.
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Most earlier emulation stuff is interesting (even in their glitches) and in danger of being lost.Making (good) actions games for Win16 was difficult because (although hardware abstraction avoids you to develop a suite of drivers for different sound/graphic cards), there were speed penalties everywhere. So on a non-ACPI system (that doesn't turn the PC off), if you select "shut down Windows" it just takes you back to the DOS prompt and hides it with an overlay? Does Logo=0 affect it in any way?So that's a no then ? I was asking, because I was thinking about making some of the Win16 emulators mentioned before available before they go the way of the dodo.Since I have them in my backups still, but don't know how long they will be available on the internet (old FTP servers may vanish).Sorry, I didn't mean they're not interesting or deserving to be archived. This way normal command.com prompt is loaded, and you can run windows by ex Interesting. Reply 8 of 144, by dr_stAzarien wrote: However, you can change BootGUI=1 to 0 in msdos.sys. This efectively unloads Windows keeping only the win.com, and then runs command.com as a normal program.When you exit that (typing exit), win.com reloads Windows, or if it isn't feasible at this point, reboots the machine. Back to DOS again.That works only if BootGUI=0 and you manually (or via autoexec.bat) executed win.com.Then things changed when on newer machines instead of the message the computer physically turned off.Regarding that "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode" option.
😅They are unlikely to be useful for everyday use these days, also.Except maybe one or two of them (Apple2Win and PC64),Which can be used just fine to play some classic interactive fiction games (textadventures).And since they are Windows applications, they theoretically can run in foreground, while some MID/MOD player runs in background.Provided that they aren't interrupted due cooperative multitasking (MOD4WIN has a three timer modes to circumwent this issue).Another reason for me is nostalgia, of course! ^^In these stressful Corona days, there's nothing more relaxing than pretending to be somewhere else than in the usual places of your home.So it's just fun to change/decorate a hobby corner (or room) in the free time.To make it look like a Star Trek bridge/room, for example, by using LCARS24 on an old laptop.Or by changing it to a 70s room/corner with a nice record player, an arm chair, a colourful B/W TV set and a tube radio with magic eye.An 80s room/corner with a VCR or VHS player (without recording abilities), some posters, etc is also an option. I can look into them for more Win16 emulators)Woa, thank you very much for your kind words and your understanding! ^^I was hoping that there's a little bit of interest here on the platform still, mainly because of curiosity and history.Though the quality of these ancient emulators is -ahem- questionable, I totally agree. But I wouldn't choose one of them to play any game of the era.(BTW, I still have a couple of shareware CDs from that era.
An MT-32, an old Hi-Fi set. 😅I haven't really started yet tidying up my PC corner, but I have this picture in my head:Say a nice little wooden table, with an old PC+CRT along with some magazines/comics/books lying around.A MegaDrive console next to it, maybe. 😉So yeah, it's also abit because of the looks rather than function.
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