Comments on: FreeDOS running Windows 3.1

By: Abrahan Sanjuas Fontan

Abrahan Sanjuas Fontan — Tue, 14 May 2024 18:53:49 +0000

In reply to binarygeek119. Tell this to Jeremy David which is the developer making this happen. Maybe he can view dos 4 Code to make Windows work on freedos kernel.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:52:03 +0000

In reply to binarygeek119. I'd been enjoying dos 4 which runs windows fine

By: binarygeek119

binarygeek119 — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:29:51 +0000

any update on a compiled version of win3.1 support i tried it myself but can figure out how.

By: Abraham

Abraham — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:07:03 +0000

Yes it’s not It IS a define on the C programs called WIN31SUPPORT and there IS another WITHFAT32 for FAT32 support. But FAT32 IS not supported by chkdsk.exe .

By: Abraham

Abraham — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:04:10 +0000

In reply to Random. The parameter to compile IS /DWIN31SUPPORT

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:40:54 +0000

In reply to binarygeek119.

I guess I’ll have to learn how to build freedos as I get the impression it’s not on by default?

I’m knee deep in the Darwin at the moment, I’ll see what I can do.

By: binarygeek119

binarygeek119 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:17:59 +0000

could you update the file needed for this to freedos 1.3? i would love to run windows on freedos.

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 05:07:26 +0000

In reply to Random.

I have found a link that explains how to achieve this

https://danielectra.github.io/blog/windows-31-on-freedos

By: Random

Random — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:59:48 +0000

In reply to neozeed. There's supposed to be a way to add it as a compile-time option ..something in config.bat, I think? I haven't been able to get 1.3's kernel to load win /3 consistently, though.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:40:46 +0000

In reply to Abraham. Oh I'd been using the one I'd linked to. I didn't realize that they didn't ship anything with it in by default.