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Started by _Sigma Dec 14, 2005 at 1:05 AM 27 replies 1.8k views
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_Sigma
_Sigma
Well, now that I have Virtual PC (you can see all the questions i've spammed in the louge ;) ), i just *had* to install DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.1. I hadn't touched my win 3.1 discs for a while, and on disc 3 "ERROR!!! PLEASE INSERT DISK 3!" Er...it is...i've tried and tried, and it won't get past disk 3. So..what do i do? Is there anyway I can get a copy of windows 3.1 from anywhere? I own the disks, so the legality part isn't a problem (right?). I've looked on torrents, FTPs, IRC, newgroups. Nothing. Anyone care to point me in the right direction for atleast going about finding disc 3? AFAIK, the others are fine. *crosses fingers*. Thanks guys...
I Like Bread
I Like Bread
I don't want to start a long debate, but have you tried abandonware sites?
______Numbermind StudiosCurrently in hibernation.
bikola_p
bikola_p
can anyone see themselves using 3.1, dude whats the point of having a computer at all if you gonna have 3.1. Dude its 3.1, i think im gonna be sick.
Sneftel
Sneftel
Dude, man. Dude.
MindWipe
MindWipe
dude
"To some its a six-pack, to me it's a support group."
d000hg
d000hg
"What's mine say?"
"Dude. What about mine?"
"Sweet. But what about mine?"
"Dude. But what does MINE say?"
"SWEET. WHAT ABOUT MINE?"
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.
.
Anyone remember that?
Programmer One
Programmer One
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Original post by d000hg
"What's mine say?"
"Dude. What about mine?"
"Sweet. But what about mine?"
"Dude. But what does MINE say?"
"SWEET. WHAT ABOUT MINE?"
.
.
.
Anyone remember that?



Dude.....what?
MindWipe
MindWipe
Quote:
Original post by d000hg
"What's mine say?"
"Dude. What about mine?"
"Sweet. But what about mine?"
"Dude. But what does MINE say?"
"SWEET. WHAT ABOUT MINE?"
.
.
.
Anyone remember that?


Damn I hate that movie so much. I wasn't funny at all, it was plain studid, and it annoys the hell out of me that it probably made alot of money.

Where are the good SMART(keyword) comedies now-a-days? Anyone remember Hotshots? The Naked Gun? Airplane!? Now these comedies where really good and had lots of small funny details and had great dialogs.

- This man needs to go to a hospital!
- A hospital? What is it?!
- It's a big building with alot of patients

- That's crazy!
- That's not crazy. I'll tell you what crazy is. Crazy is walking down the street with a melon on your head saying "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster".

/MindWipe
"To some its a six-pack, to me it's a support group."
Sneftel
Sneftel
Timmy, do you like gladiator films?
necromancer_df
necromancer_df
- Surely you can't be serious
- I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley
Zanthos
Zanthos
- Nice Beaver
- Thanks, I've just had it stuffed
doynax
doynax
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Original post by _Sigma
Well, now that I have Virtual PC (you can see all the questions i've spammed in the louge ;) ), i just *had* to install DOS 6.21 and Windows 3.1. I hadn't touched my win 3.1 discs for a while, and on disc 3 "ERROR!!! PLEASE INSERT DISK 3!" Er...it is...i've tried and tried, and it won't get past disk 3. So..what do i do? Is there anyway I can get a copy of windows 3.1 from anywhere? I own the disks, so the legality part isn't a problem (right?). I've looked on torrents, FTPs, IRC, newgroups. Nothing. Anyone care to point me in the right direction for atleast going about finding disc 3? AFAIK, the others are fine. *crosses fingers*.

Thanks guys...
How good is the Win3.1 support in VirtualPC?
I wanted to try our graphics engine in Win32s a while ago but VMWare had serious issues with Win3.1..
Anyway, my floppies are still alive =)

As for disk images of dubious legality, try DC. You're bound to stumble across it sooner or later.
benryves
benryves
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Original post by doynax
How good is the Win3.1 support in VirtualPC?
I wanted to try our graphics engine in Win32s a while ago but VMWare had serious issues with Win3.1..
Win16, surely?
I know VPC2004 runs Windows 2 perfectly (I have virtual machines set up for DOS 6.22, Windows 2, Windows 95 and Windows 2000). The one OS I haven't got to work was BeOS5PE, or more specifically BeOS5 Max.

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doynax
doynax
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Original post by benryves
Quote:
Original post by doynax
How good is the Win3.1 support in VirtualPC?
I wanted to try our graphics engine in Win32s a while ago but VMWare had serious issues with Win3.1..
Win16, surely?
No, Win32s. We wanted to brag about supporting every Win32 system =)
Anyone feel like donating some WinNT 3.1/3.5 floppies for this noble cause? ;)
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Original post by benryves
I know VPC2004 runs Windows 2 perfectly (I have virtual machines set up for DOS 6.22, Windows 2, Windows 95 and Windows 2000). The one OS I haven't got to work was BeOS5PE, or more specifically BeOS5 Max.
Win3.1 itself worked in VMWare, but according to the manual it didn't support any graphics cards so we were stuck in 16-colors. But, worse, it just crashed when we tried to run any Win32 applications.

The same thing happened in Win3.11 too.
d000hg
d000hg
"That engine's running a little hot"

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