What a killjoy! Tom it was a wish list after all & from my personal
experience on FreeDOS 1.0 with the unstable kernel where crashes were few
and far between in standard mode, it seems possible if not practical.
C'est la vie! FreeDOS is not my life, just something to obsess about,
ironically speaking.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:
> > My reason for wanting to use Windows 3.1 in FreeDOS is for some
> > very specific apps (yes among them are a couple of bible programs)
> > and just having access to some utilities such as Winimage Winzip,
> > etc. That said, since 1993 I have always had Compaq DOS/Windows 3.1
> > on at least one of my PCs so, I can always fall back to that - just a
> bit inconvenient.
>
> whatever your reason is: forget it.
>
> this would be a lot of work, and the developers find it more then
> 'a bit inconvenient' to put much effort in things that they aren't
> interested in.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode.
> >>
> >> has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it
> >
> > Okay, but let's be clear here:
> >
> > 1). It's proprietary, so it's not redistributable.
> > 2). It's old, so most people don't have (nor want) it.
> > 3). It used undocumented MS-specific data, so it's fairly hard to be
> compatible.
> > 4). It's harder (maybe impossible) to run on even semi-modern machines
> > due to its own bugs and design limits.
> >
> > However, that doesn't mean it's totally not worth supporting. In fact,
> > I could be wrong (never cared much personally, thus never tested, I
> > prefer "real" DOS, not Win16 GUI apps), but I think DOSBox claims to
> > work with Win 3.x (or maybe even Win95). I know for a fact that DR-DOS
> > 7.03 fully works, but I'm not sure about OpenDOS or EDR-DOS.
> > (Obviously those have different licenses, but I know it's not [always]
> > totally illegal to reverse engineer or clean-room, esp. when dealing
> > with explicit compatibility problems like this.)
> >
> > Regarding DOS apps themselves, the only real reason to use Win 3.1
> > would be for something like multitasking (or maybe some obscure
> > drivers??). In that case, it's probably easier to instead just use
> > DOSEMU under Linux.
> >
> > So, summary: it's hard to support but not impossible, but the simple
> > answer is to look elsewhere at pre-existing solutions (or similar).
> >
>
> >
> >
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