Well this isn't something you see everyday...

[Shawn]

Hopefully this is off-topic enough for off-topic...

So I've been fooling around with Virtual PC and have been able to get get Windows 3.11 up and running. I installed the network drivers as well as the TCP/IP protocol and am now able to surf the net and share files with my real WinXP computer.

Pic

If you are wondering why I went to all the trouble, it is because i wanted an old MS-DOS rig which I could play all of my old DOS games. I have used DOSBox before but it has some issues with certain games so I thought I'd give this a try. However, because of the way Virtual PC works you can't really copy files over easily. I had to use a floppy disk to install the NIC drivers and TCP/IP protocol. However once I got those installed I was able to set up file sharing and everything works great. I just set up a folder on the virtual hard drive called Shared and gave it full write access so I can just drag files into it via Windows XP. Also, I can also access the shared files from my XP rig in Win3.11. Pretty cool if you ask me.

File Sharing in Win3.11

 

[tfinch2]

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

no, upgrading from 3.11 to 95 from floppies was the shiz

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

 

[Ika]

i hated 3.1 . no proper windows explorer ftl....

happy 20k post, btw.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Can you play Falcon 3.0 on there?

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully this is off-topic enough for off-topic...

So I've been fooling around with Virtual PC and have been able to get get Windows 3.11 up and running. I installed the network drivers as well as the TCP/IP protocol and am now able to surf the net and share files with my real WinXP computer.

Pic

If you are wondering why I went to all the trouble, it is because i wanted an old MS-DOS rig which I could play all of my old DOS games. I have used DOSBox before but it has some issues with certain games so I thought I'd give this a try. However, because of the way Virtual PC works you can't really copy files over easily. I had to use a floppy disk to install the NIC drivers and TCP/IP protocol. However once I got those installed I was able to set up file sharing and everything works great. I just set up a folder on the virtual hard drive called Shared and gave it full write access so I can just drag files into it via Windows XP. Also, I can also access the shared files from my XP rig in Win3.11. Pretty cool if you ask me.

File Sharing in Win3.11

How did you get the TCP stack? IIRC I had to download those from MS back in the day to get 3.11 to do TCP/IP without using some package like Chameleon.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Aflac
i hated 3.1 . no proper windows explorer ftl....

happy 20k post, btw.

Having gotten comfortable on 95 and then going back and working on 3.1 was really confusing... meh, I have the same problem today though, I administer a mixed NT4,2000,2003 environment, and I can never remember how to get to things, I have to try it al different ways...

I was messing with a 98 machine the other day and was confused when I couldn't find the computer name in "my computer"...

 

[BW86]

I loved Win 3.11

 

[PinmasterJay]

lemmings on 3.1 FTW

Microsoft BOB FTL

 

[soydios]

I still have a Windows3.11 machine from 1994. It had a blazing fast 90MHz Pentium I processor, massive 1GB hard drive, and top-of-the-line 2X CD-ROM.
Just out of curiosity, a friend of mine has a dead machine of the same era (dead PSU, mobo, and RAM), and he's just gonna give me the 133MHz Pentium I CPU from it. Can I just drop it in? Any of you remember if that was possible from 12 years ago? The machine will become a backup file server (I have a spare 80GB hard drive for it).

 

[Ika]

I do remember all the good times I had playing floppy games, though. Mario Is Missing, Raptor:Call of the Shadows, Jazz Jackrabbit, KidWorks 2 (okay i was like 5-7 when we had win 3.1),and Duke Nukem!

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: soydios
I still have a Windows3.11 machine from 1994. It had a blazing fast 90MHz Pentium I processor, massive 1GB hard drive, and top-of-the-line 2X CD-ROM.
Just out of curiosity, a friend of mine has a dead machine of the same era (dead PSU, mobo, and RAM), and he's just gonna give me the 133MHz Pentium I CPU from it. Can I just drop it in? Any of you remember if that was possible from 12 years ago? The machine will become a backup file server (I have a spare 80GB hard drive for it).

What OS are you going to put on it? If you are using Windows 3.11, the max HDD size is 2 gigs IIRC

 

[secretanchitman]

OMG yes "printer...Not Responding" FTW!!!

and btw, who are those girls on your desktop, heheh....

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: BW86
I loved Win 3.11

I liked it as well until I started working with NT 3.51. After that all of the non NT based MS OS's became increasingly annoying for me to use for anything other than gaming.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Aflac
i hated 3.1 . no proper windows explorer ftl....

happy 20k post, btw.

Actually, at the time, I thought File Manager was much better than the way Win95 dealt with files. If you remember the default behavior of Win95 was to open every directory in a new window. I thought this was extremely unorgainzed and for the longest time I continued to use the old File Manager.

Since I had upgraded from Win3.1 pretty much all of my files were 8 characters or less so the lack of long filename support didn't matter much. However after a while typing c:\progra~1, etc. got old so I made the switch.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully this is off-topic enough for off-topic...

So I've been fooling around with Virtual PC and have been able to get get Windows 3.11 up and running. I installed the network drivers as well as the TCP/IP protocol and am now able to surf the net and share files with my real WinXP computer.

Pic

If you are wondering why I went to all the trouble, it is because i wanted an old MS-DOS rig which I could play all of my old DOS games. I have used DOSBox before but it has some issues with certain games so I thought I'd give this a try. However, because of the way Virtual PC works you can't really copy files over easily. I had to use a floppy disk to install the NIC drivers and TCP/IP protocol. However once I got those installed I was able to set up file sharing and everything works great. I just set up a folder on the virtual hard drive called Shared and gave it full write access so I can just drag files into it via Windows XP. Also, I can also access the shared files from my XP rig in Win3.11. Pretty cool if you ask me.

File Sharing in Win3.11

How did you get the TCP stack? IIRC I had to download those from MS back in the day to get 3.11 to do TCP/IP without using some package like Chameleon.

I got it from here.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: soydios
I still have a Windows3.11 machine from 1994. It had a blazing fast 90MHz Pentium I processor, massive 1GB hard drive, and top-of-the-line 2X CD-ROM.
Just out of curiosity, a friend of mine has a dead machine of the same era (dead PSU, mobo, and RAM), and he's just gonna give me the 133MHz Pentium I CPU from it. Can I just drop it in? Any of you remember if that was possible from 12 years ago? The machine will become a backup file server (I have a spare 80GB hard drive for it).

What OS are you going to put on it? If you are using Windows 3.11, the max HDD size is 2 gigs IIRC

You can use a hard drive larger than 2GB, however the largest partition size for FAT16 is 2GB, so you would need to make more than one partition.

Also, the P90s used a very high voltage (around 3.5v or something crazy), so if you put in a different processor make sure you adjust the voltage. If you don't you'll fry the other processor. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Shawn
Hopefully this is off-topic enough for off-topic...

So I've been fooling around with Virtual PC and have been able to get get Windows 3.11 up and running. I installed the network drivers as well as the TCP/IP protocol and am now able to surf the net and share files with my real WinXP computer.

Pic

If you are wondering why I went to all the trouble, it is because i wanted an old MS-DOS rig which I could play all of my old DOS games. I have used DOSBox before but it has some issues with certain games so I thought I'd give this a try. However, because of the way Virtual PC works you can't really copy files over easily. I had to use a floppy disk to install the NIC drivers and TCP/IP protocol. However once I got those installed I was able to set up file sharing and everything works great. I just set up a folder on the virtual hard drive called Shared and gave it full write access so I can just drag files into it via Windows XP. Also, I can also access the shared files from my XP rig in Win3.11. Pretty cool if you ask me.

File Sharing in Win3.11

How did you get the TCP stack? IIRC I had to download those from MS back in the day to get 3.11 to do TCP/IP without using some package like Chameleon.

I got it from here.

Heh now I'm very tempted to dig out my old Tyan Tomcat and see if it still works.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: soydios
I still have a Windows3.11 machine from 1994. It had a blazing fast 90MHz Pentium I processor, massive 1GB hard drive, and top-of-the-line 2X CD-ROM.
Just out of curiosity, a friend of mine has a dead machine of the same era (dead PSU, mobo, and RAM), and he's just gonna give me the 133MHz Pentium I CPU from it. Can I just drop it in? Any of you remember if that was possible from 12 years ago? The machine will become a backup file server (I have a spare 80GB hard drive for it).

You'll need to change jumpers on the motherboard for the multiplier, FSB (I believe the 90 and 133 used different ones) and possibly the vcore. I doubt a machine from 1994 has a bios that handles that.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

totally

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: BW86
I loved Win 3.11

I liked it as well until I started working with NT 3.51. After that all of the non NT based MS OS's became increasingly annoying for me to use for anything other than gaming.

They were annoying to use for gaming as well. You just didn't have any choice.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

no, upgrading from 3.11 to 95 from floppies was the shiz

exactly what i did to upgrade my pentium 1 90mhz. i was a n00b back then, didn't know they had a CD version out
14 floppies. what a joke that was.

then again, if you think about it, 20MB was all you needed for win95... now Vista Beta 2 DVD is almost 4GB

Maybe I should install Win3.1 on my vista rig

 

[j00fek]

classic

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the shiz.

no, upgrading from 3.11 to 95 from floppies was the shiz

exactly what i did to upgrade my pentium 1 90mhz. i was a n00b back then, didn't know they had a CD version out
14 floppies. what a joke that was.

then again, if you think about it, 20MB was all you needed for win95... now Vista Beta 2 DVD is almost 4GB

Maybe I should install Win3.1 on my vista rig

Then again, Win3.11 was only 8MB or so.