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With a Virtual Machine, you can get better results than with a real hardware, as it creates automatically a hardware profile supported by MS DOS&Windows 3.1/3.11 and it has even its drivers already. Anyway, it will be better if you use VirtualBox instead. This is how it can be done, but you'll face enough problems with your hardware, as there aren't drivers support for 16bit Windows and once installed you can't do much with it, unless you have an very old application.

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First you'll need to have Drivers for CD/DVD ROM, that after install DOS to load that, or you'll not be able to install Windows 3.1/3.11 by CD ROM unless you have a Floppy Drive and some Diskettes to copy windows installation and install from it from those. By creating a FAT 2GB disk Partition, you can install MS DOS 6.22 and after install Windows 3.1/3.11. That depends on Hardware and today's hardware are not supported by MS DOS 6.22 that is needed to run Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 Workgroup. Windows 3.1 won't even run on most modern computers, because MS-DOS 32 was removed in Windows Vista and newer versions of windows. Modern computers do not operate in DOS 16 bit, or DOS 32-bit Mode, which is required by 3.1.

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But, if the PC is less than 14 years old, you are beat. Windows 3.If the PC originally ran Windows 3.1, it will work, but Device Drivers are nearly impossible to find.

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Product type OS Vendor Microsoft Release date Sat End of life date Sat Minimum CPU 286 or higher Minimum RAM 2MB Minimum free disk space 20MB User interface GUI Platform Windows Download count 531 (284 for release) Downloads Download name No 8086 or 8088 systems will run Windows 3.1 Real Mode is no longer supported in Windows 3.1 requiring at least an Intel 80286 or equivalent to run. To Install: Windows 3.1 requires an installation of either MS-DOS or PC-DOS and we recommend using MS-DOS 6.22 if you are unsure of a version. On 386 systems and greater you can run a limited subset of 32-bit Windows applications (mostly those for Windows NT 3.5 and 95) with the Win32s (Win32 subset) patch. The only difference from 3.1 was additional support for Chinese characters and was released in late 1993. Windows 3.2 was a Chinese language specific release. Purple was replaced with blue and the boot screen was overhauled to the modern 3.1 variant. The final beta was compiled on Decemand expects a BIOS date of the 18th or later.

Common supported cards include Adlib and Sound Blaster 16.īETA During development Windows 3.1 was under the development codename Janus and 3 prerelease versions have surfaced, two beta candidates and a release candidate.

In Windows 3.0 this was provided by a Multimedia PC add-on which usually came with new Multimedia PCs, sound cards and CD-ROM drives of the day. Multimedia support was now fully integrated along with the expandable Control Panel into Windows 3.1. TrueType survives today along with its close cousin OpenType. With TrueType users could finally have a good grasp that what was shown on the screen would be what was printed without blocky outlines. Windows 3.1 also came with support for TrueType fonts which provide more realistic font rendering as they are outline fonts that can scale to any point size. Write, Paintbrush and the new Object Packager have support for this technology which remains with us today in Windows 8. The File Manager was completely revamped and a revamped hypertext help system was introduced.Īpplications could talk to each other not only through the DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) protocol, also used by OS/2, but also by the new Windows-only OLE protocol which allows for applications to share any type of object more seamlessly. Among the changes in Windows 3.1 include a drop of real mode support (see more below), the removal of the Reversi game, updated icons with richer colors, an improved setup process with better hardware detection, and the introduction of batch install. Microsoft Windows 3.1 was an evolution to Windows 3.0 and undoubtably the most popular, poster child version in the Windows 3.x series.

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