2022年1月4日 · I was digging through my storage and came across this old copy of Windows 3.1. It's a strange looking version though and am wondering if anyone has any info on it. The copyright page only mentions Microsoft Corporation but it doesn't look like any version of Windows or Microsoft product I have seen before.

2021年7月21日 · In Windows up to version 3.x included (and early versions of OS/2), the only interface available for graphics was the Graphics Device Interface. This defines a large number of 2D graphics primitives, from simple line-drawing to font rendering.

2023年8月5日 · I can't start Windows 3.11 in FreeDOS due some protected mode issues: win /s (standard mode) => Can't start Windows in Standard Mode. Try to use the extended mode win /3; win /3 (extended mode for 386) => Windows cannot run in Advanced Mode for 386 PC because of the Protected Mode software already installed. Exit the Protected Mode software and ...

2021年2月14日 · The accepted answer to Windows 98 with 2GB of RAM should be adaptable for Windows 3.1: download and extract HIMEMX; edit CONFIG.SYS to load that instead of HIMEM.SYS, and specify /MAX=262144 to limit memory to 256MiB (the practical limit for …

2017年5月21日 · I want to install Windows 3.1 on my MS-DOS 6.22 Machine. I have the 6 disk images. But I only have 1 or 2 spare Floppy disk that I can write the disk images onto. One way I can think of is to write the first disk image on one, and then when the next is requested, I …

2022年12月19日 · Windows 3.x wasn’t “stuck to the 80286 platform”: Windows 3.0 still supported real mode on 8086 processors. The requirement for a 286 at the platform level only came with Windows 3.1. As far as applications are concerned, the defaults for the Windows 3.0 SDK still targeted 8086 processors (using the SDK and the compiler required a 286 ...

JPEG in a Windows 3.x era executable seems rather unlikely. You haven’t even named any actual tool in your answer. And for what it’s worth, I actually tried running binwalk on some bundled Windows programs (like SOL.EXE), and the results were pretty disappointing: it did not even manage to find the card bitmaps that Resource Workshop ...

2021年10月13日 · It's based on the Windows and IBM OS/2 default 16-color palette but has the four additional colors Cream, Money Green, Sky Blue and Medium Grey. You can see both palettes in the Wikipedia. If you take a close look on the GUI and on icons back then from e.g. Windows 98 you'll see, that mostly the default 16-color palette gets used.

2019年4月17日 · Support was subsequently added to the NT line with Windows 2000. Some graphics cards provided support for multiple monitors in earlier versions of Windows, at least in Windows NT 4.0 as described here (with SP3, released in May 1997); Matrox cards in particular were famous for this. I used a G450 with dual outputs under NT 4.0 with two monitors.

2019年8月6日 · (MS-DOS-based versions of Windows had a different and partial repurposing of CTRL-ALT-DELETE. With Windows 3.1 it would bring up a screen where you could kill the currently running task, while on Windows 95, and 98 and ME, it would bring up screen where you could select a task to kill.