After seeing the spotlight on twitter from WinWorld, on NetManage Chameleon, an old TCP/IP stack that supported Windows 3.0! With more details over on the forum. I was inspired to set it up myself.

I did go a bit overboard showing how to install MS-DOS & Windows 3.0 on Qemu. Maybe it’ll help someone who wants to try to use Qemu, but is too scared? Maybe I moved too quickly.

One thing I did do differently in this run, is launching the monitor and a serial port as tcp servers so I could telnet into the VM, effectively having a way to share text like a clipboard back and forth. I’m kind of surprised I hadn’t really started using Qemu in this manner much earlier.

qemu.exe -L pc-bios ^
-m 16 ^
-hda apricot.vmdk ^
-net nic,model=pcnet -net user ^
-monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:4000,server,nowait ^
-serial telnet:127.0.0.1:4001,server,nowait ^
-fda yourdisk_here.vfd

Surprisingly it went surprisingly well, other than my goof of having the OS/2 driver instead of the MS-DOS driver for the nic.

Sadly, the tn3270 program bundled with Chameleon doesn’t work properly with Hercules.

As always I’ve uploaded it to archive.org: apricot-dos4-win3-chameleon3.7z