Seems to be a bit of 286 enthusiasm around at the moment! I'd like to hear if anyone has got anything interesting running on Windows 3 or 3.1
on a 286?
This isn't a helpful answer, but I never tried running windoze on a 286...
I don't think I ever saw a version that would install. I stuck with DOS on 286 class systems, most of the systems I saw of a similar vintage, generally 386s though tended to have DOS applications being used.
Hey all!
Seems to be a bit of 286 enthusiasm around at the moment! I'd like to
hear if anyone has got anything interesting running on Windows 3 or 3.1
on a 286?
I've struggled to find software that will run on Windows and will also work on a 286, will gratefully accept any suggestion you've got.
I have managed to do some internety stuffon windwos 3.1 with my 286.
Turns out that early versions of trumpet windsock (a network & TCP/IP layer for win 3.1) will run and I have managed to get an old gopher
client HGopher v2.4 working with it just fine. Can search veronica 2 for gopher holes & browse though them no problems !
Also tried to get a web browser working, the best I've managed is to use the oldest version of mosaic I could find. That sort of works, but crashes on any websites that have graphics of any sort.. other more
modern browsers Netcapte ect just wont run or wont install.
So got any suggestions? Anything you've tried out that works?
286... I don't think I ever saw a version that would install. I stuck with DOS on 286 class systems, most of the systems I saw of a similar
layer for win 3.1) will run and I have managed to get an old gopher client HGopher v2.4 working with it just fine. Can search veronica 2 gopher holes & browse though them no problems !
thats cool actually!
Windows vesrions up to and including 3.11 should work on a 286 providing it has a couple of megabytes of RAM.
Spectre wrote to kirkspragg <=-
SIPPs came in, but it wouldn't talk to 1Mb... and I couldn't get it to
run with DRAM and SIPPs at the same time...
Hey all!
Seems to be a bit of 286 enthusiasm around at the moment! I'd like to
hear if anyone has got anything interesting running on Windows 3 or
3.1 on a 286?
I've struggled to find software that will run on Windows and will also
work on a 286, will gratefully accept any suggestion you've got.
I have managed to do some internety stuffon windwos 3.1 with my 286.
Turns out that early versions of trumpet windsock (a network & TCP/IP
layer for win 3.1) will run and I have managed to get an old gopher
client HGopher v2.4 working with it just fine. Can search veronica 2
for gopher holes & browse though them no problems !
Also tried to get a web browser working, the best I've managed is to
use the oldest version of mosaic I could find. That sort of works,
but crashes on any websites that have graphics of any sort.. other
more modern browsers Netcapte ect just wont run or wont install.
So got any suggestions? Anything you've tried out that works?
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
SIPPs came in, but it wouldn't talk to 1Mb... and I couldn't get it to run with DRAM and SIPPs at the same time...
I remember those either/or motherboards, had totally forgotten about
those 1mb SIPPs. Most of them ended up as earrings.
Intriguing.. I never had more than 1Mb in any of my 286s not sure any of the mobo's supported more.. I messed around with the super optioned one while messing around overclocking it. I don't know what flavour SIPPs
came in, but it wouldn't talk to 1Mb... and I couldn't get it to run
with DRAM and SIPPs at the same time...
"DOS.WIN30" file area: Windows 3.0 - 286 archive
and
"DOS.WIN31" file area
maybe it worth a check!
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
Mine came with 4x256k in it, I messed around with SIMMS in SIMM holders
as replacements but it steadfastly refused 1Mb... Mebbe it'd take 512k
if they existed... I never saw SIPPS anywhere else in the wild, but I do remember 256k SIMMS being given away at swapmeets.
Spec
Oh I understand your pain, 286s and memory config in general is quite a pain & varies so much between motherboards. My current motherboard supports SIMMs only & will take 4mb SIMMs which is not common - that was really just good luck on my part, nothing I could find on the net while researching this board prior to buying it indicated this would work.
Regarding my windows experience I first got it up and running on a 286 with 4mb of ram, maybe 2mb is the minimum? I recall seeing that on a
forum somewhere.
SIPP is a bitch XD i just upgrade the board to simm
Have been over a downloaded a few things like the after dark screen saver & cpu use monitor as well as an early MS office version.
kirkspragg wrote to Roon <=-
Have been over a downloaded a few things like the after dark screen
saver & cpu use monitor as well as an early MS office version.
Have been over a downloaded a few things like the after dark screen
saver & cpu use monitor as well as an early MS office version.
It great to have at least some stuff that works on Win 3.1 on this PC
& seeing the after dark screen savers after all these years has been a pleasant nostalgia trip.
Would have messaged you directly on your BBS but it seems to be down
or at least unreachable for me ATM.
telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-
Not MS Works.. Used that until they finally killed it.... The handbrake
of the time used to play with After Dark but never really saw the attraction to something you wouldn't be sitting there looking at :)
Have been over a downloaded a few things like the after dark screen
saver & cpu use monitor as well as an early MS office version.
My name is in the credits screen for After Dark. :)
yes i had some problems in the past months with the firewall machine,
but today i fed up and bought a new one and started a fresh install. now it should be rock solid :)
of the time used to play with After Dark but never really saw the attraction to something you wouldn't be sitting there looking at :)It's not that you'd be sitting there looking at it all the time. It was just something fun to glance at sometimes while preventing PC monitor burn-in.
My name is in the credits screen for After Dark. :)You're the guy that stuck a fork in the flying toaster? ;)
AKAcastor wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
You're the guy that stuck a fork in the flying toaster? ;)
The DOS version of works was actually pretty functional. I remember moving to the windows version some time later and it not being quite as good for some reason... but that is so long ago that I can't remember why!
Didn't know there was a DOS version to be honest. Only used the windoze version, I found it reminiscent of using Appleworks. I seem to recall a time where there was a break between Works being obsoleted and Office arriving where all the applications were seperate entities.. one of the reasons we stuck with works until Office refused to import the documents.
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