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1. HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX DCOATES SOFTWARE
2. HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX DCOATES ISO
3. HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX DCOATES FREE

Feel free to provide thoughts and comments for this thread. We've already had DOSBox become widely used for digital distribution platforms with MS-DOS games since the late-2000s so now we need OTVDM to do the same for 16-bit Windows games on digital distribution platforms as well. With that backstory addendum out of the way, how likely is it that there would be chances of 16-bit Windows 3.1 & earlier games being rereleased through digital distribution platforms like Steam (and maybe GOG) via OTVDM? (which is a port of the 16-bit Windows subsystem found in Wine to 64-bit Windows NT-based systems). With the release of Windows 11, Microsoft chose not to provide a 32-bit version for any edition for the OS (Heck, not even to the enterprise edition either), which effectively discontinued and killed off NTVDM after 28 years of being included in Windows NT-based systems. Later during Windows 3.1's lifestyle, Microsoft introduced WinG to expand the graphical capabilities of Windows 3.1, but unlike the later DirectX, it wasn't very successful and saw very little use in games & software.ĭespite the shortcomings of 16-bit Windows games and the demise of the Windows 9x family, Microsoft continued to support NTVDM for backward compatibility for 32-bit Windows NT systems with Windows NT 3.1 up until its final appearance in Windows 10, the last version of Windows with a 32-bit edition. Many 16-bit Windows games that did make it to retail stores were very few and far between, with releases on 5.25 or 3.5 floppy disks, although CD-ROMs were introduced around this time.

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX DCOATES ISO

Now that yu have the Windws 3.1 ISO as the boot disk loaded into Dosbox. There were a couple of 16-bit Windows games designed for Windows 3.1 and earlier that were released, but many of these were released on BBS, AOL or other pre-WorldWideWeb services at the time, and they were very primitive even back then. Load the Windws 3.1 ISO into a virtual machine application which supports 16 bit operating systems like Dosbox and go to the D: drive in DOSBox and after that run setup.exe. HX DOS Extender allows you to run a limited number of Windows applications under DOS.

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS 3.1 IN DOSBOX DCOATES SOFTWARE

In the early days of Microsoft Windows during the late-1980s & early-1990a there wasn't a whole lot of software and games being made for it, with many companies still releasing games & software on the aging MS-DOS until the release of Windows 95 in 1995. However, it is possible to run the Windows version of DOSBox under MS-DOS and compatibles using HX DOS Extender.