Sorry for not responding, yes it is...says it's a "usb omni floppy disk drive". Too bad I doubt have much of a use for it(I'd love to find some games to pop into it and load into boxer while using something like my ps3 controller to play some of the computer games on it). The older games I have that are pc are older windows games(bar the empire 250 games which is interesting and space kids where's grandpa which i've never been able to play...) like 95/98 and xp. I ought to get one of the two windows pc's I have plugged in again(xp computer that now runs like a champ now that the dust was blown out, and the 7 pc I got from my grandmother which might need a tune up and a wireless adapter). Heck I'd love to track down some blizzard games and even some of the older rpgs for it. (oddily I found the chex doom clone and that thing is hilarious and I suck at it)
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this seems like as a good a place to put this question as any...
Have any of you guys ever installed Win 3.1 inside DOSBox? I'm thinking of doing this to get some older, more stubborn games working in Windows 10. The idea came to me as my copy of Qwirks arrived and I wanted to get it installed - and no dice. I had believed that this was a Win95 release, but apparently nope.
Anyway, before I go through the trouble and cost of tracking down a legit 3.1 set of floppies, I figured I'd ask if anyone else had attempted this and what their experience was?
Yeah, it's not that hard. Grab the legit floppies if you must, but either make or download an ISO of instead of using the 6 floppy images. It'll be LOADS easier to install it that way.
I know of people who have done what he said above, imaging it is best for ease and, less files, not messing with floppies, etc. But it works, hell Windows 95 works too and it can still run those stubborn 16bit windows games/apps too. It's the best option outside of having to setup some entire virtual machine or something else.
I've been tempted to do it myself as I have a couple old 16bit games I like such as the 1st Civilization I can't play anymore. As it is last month I grabbed dosbox then remembered I totally forgot how to use it completely let alone set it up. I wanted to do something, forget what, and got frustrated as I forgot how to get a command prompt up as everytime I clicked it or typed its name at the command prompt it would just open and then close again. Maybe it was a bad install or something as it should have had a dosbox command prompt so you could mount things and so on.
yeah I'm just not a 'torrent guy,' y'know? Although I haven't actually started looking, so I have no idea how reasonable it is to assume that I'll find a nice set of floppies w/o breaking the bank.
Actually, I wasn't thinking of the fact that 95 can still run the 16-bit games, so that may be a feasible option as well. Quick googling had really only mentioned installing 3.1 in DOSBox.
noiseredux wrote:Have any of you guys ever installed Win 3.1 inside DOSBox? I'm thinking of doing this to get some older, more stubborn games working in Windows 10.
noiseredux wrote:Actually, I wasn't thinking of the fact that 95 can still run the 16-bit games, so that may be a feasible option as well. Quick googling had really only mentioned installing 3.1 in DOSBox.
Last I heard Windows 95 falls under the category of "technically it works" on Dosbox. There's certainly a lot of things that can go wrong with it and I don't know how well it would do running a game inside it.
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Yeah, I can run win3.1 inside of DosBox. It's not too hard. A cursory google search will net you a set of pre-configured files, so you don't really need to do much work except to mount the appropriate folder, type "win" and you're playing minesweeper in no time.
The really nice thing about this is that you can drop files from your real windows desktop into your virtual win3.1 folder and access them immediately. It's as simple as drag and drop.
samsonlonghair wrote:type "win" and you're playing minesweeper in no time.
The really nice thing about this is that you can drop files from your real windows desktop into your virtual win3.1 folder and access them immediately. It's as simple as drag and drop.
