Even Wine has trouble running older software, as it is evolves I find it
starts having the same problems as newer Windows OS have. This might be
mean it's more closely copying the newer versions of Windows, which
would be a good thing. Windows 3.1 is also an interesting thing to run
for historical reasons. I don't run MS-DOS since I can't find my MS-DOS
disks and because I thought I could benefit from some of the advances
made in FreeDOS. A Windows 3.1 clone would be neat but I don't think
anyone is interesting in writing one. In case anyone suggests ReactOS
emulates Windows NT and is still very buggy for me in virtual machines.
On 02/20/2018 03:10 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:53 PM, jamie marchant
<jamie.march...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I can't seem to get Windows 3.1 to run in 386 mode, is this a limitation
for FreeDos?
Please don't take this the wrong way. I don't blame you for tinkering! ;-)
But I wonder why you want to use such ancient (unsupported!
proprietary!) software. If Win 3.x was FOSS, it would be easy to
support (famous last words!). But it's not. And even the vendor gave
up on it. (Wikipedia says, "Unsupported as of December 31, 2001", back
when XP was brand new!) Even Win64 doesn't care.
Eric is right to suggest WINE as a possible solution. And yes, you can
allegedly run under DOSBox, too (not that I've tried).
Then again, MS has geared up to launch some ARM laptops with Win32 emulation:
*
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16737288/microsoft-windows-10-qualcomm-arm-laptops-launch
*
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12327/the-asus-novago-two-minutes-with-snapdragon-835-and-windows
I don't know all the details, not even sure if it's out or for sale
yet! But it sounds intriguing. (I'm not really suggesting buying new
hardware as a true, first solution to your needs. But unless you like
scrounging around for half-baked solutions like the rest of us here,
it might honestly be a safer bet. Then again, who knows, maybe their
Win32 emulation doesn't cover 16-bit stuff!)
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