If you want, you can change that under Main > Windows Setup > Options > Change System Settings > Display. * The display is set to a 640x480 resolution with 8-bit color depth (256 colors). I found it caused some issues with MIDI music in Windows games. * You might consider disabling MPU-401 emulation in DOSBox. * Dragging & Dropping the batch file over DOSBox executable probably won't work. It most likely will not work properly in older versions. * This package is meant to be used with DOSBox 0.73 and newer. * Again, do not unpack this to the root of your system drive. Unpack to the Windows directory (the one from the above package, not the one where your computer's actual operating system is installed), optionally also the game directory and see if it works. This is an experimental fix that should solve problems with games requiring a Borland DPMI server: You don't want to overwrite your copy of Windows, trust me on that.įrom now on, all it will take to run Windows 3.11 in your DOSBox is - once you mount the directory you extracted the package into - entering windows.bat from the command line.
Because we haven’t configured DOSBox at all and have just used its default settings, you won’t even have to tweak your DOSBox settings before it will work.All you have to do is unpack the thing to the location you mount as DOSBox' virtual C drive, unless that location is the root of your system drive. Move it to another computer and you can use it after installing DOSBox. Just take that c:\dos folder - or whatever else you named it - and back it up. You don’t have to go through this entire setup process again in the future, either. The game should just work, launching within the DOSBox window as if it were running on Windows 3.1 - after all, it is. Double-click that shortcut to launch the game.
#WIN 3.1 EMULATOR .EXE#
exe file by clicking File > New and browsing to its. You can then create a shortcut to the game’s.
For example, you might want to place it in c:\dos\gamename. To actually use an application, download it (or copy it from old disks) and place it in a folder inside your c:\dos folder.
#WIN 3.1 EMULATOR INSTALL#
Install and Run Games and Other Applications You should hear a sound as soon as you launch Windows 3.1 again. Launch Windows 3.1 again and you’ll have full sound support, including support for MIDI audio. For example, if you unzipped them to the C:\dos\s3 folder, you’d type “C:\S3” here. Click the “Options” menu in the Windows Setup window and select “Change System Settings.”Ĭlick the “Display” box, scroll down to the bottom, and select “Other display (Requires disk from OEM).” In Windows 3.1, double-click the Main program folder and double-click the “Windows Setup” icon.
For example, it would make sense to put these files in the “C:\dos\s3” folder.
#WIN 3.1 EMULATOR ZIP FILE#
zip file to a folder inside your DOSBox C: drive folder. You can download the S3 video driver from the Classic Games website. For best graphics support, you’ll want to install the S3 graphics drivers and configure Windows 3.1 to use a higher resolution and more colors. By default, it’s set up to emulate S3 Graphics. However, it also supports some other types of graphics. RELATED: PCs Before Windows: What Using MS-DOS Was Actually LikeĭOSBox supports standard VGA graphics. When you restart DOSBox, you can launch Windows 3.1 by running the following commands in order: When it’s done, close the DOS system by clicking “Reboot” in the wizard. Go through the Windows 3.1 setup wizard to install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox.
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