RPi3 Win 3.1/95 Emulation In DOSBox?

backstander · 2 Mar 2017, 16:19

Alright, cool. Probably not worth it to play Math Blaster or 'play' MS Dogs. Haha.

Lol

I think the only games I could really recommend for Win 3.1 would be Star Wars: Yoda Stories (Wikipedia) and Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures(Wikipedia). I'm pretty sure that both of these games ran pretty well on my PRi3 with a USB mouse.

hooperre · 2 Mar 2017, 17:24

@backstander Have you gone through the seemingly arduous process of emulating Win 95? Maybe it would be more straight forward as things like mouse drivers may be easier to find. AFIK Win 3.1 is essentially a Dos application, so it streamlines pretty well.

backstander · 3 Feb 2017, 17:32

@hooperre

Have you gone through the seemingly arduous process of emulating Win 95?

I was going to try it but I couldn't find the power cable for my USB external CD-ROM drive that I was just going to plug into my RPi3 and then I totally forgot about wanting to do this and never revisited it. I guess I could just mount the ISO file of my disc but never tried that either. I watched a lot of YouTube videos of others installing Win 95/98 on a Raspberry Pi and it didn't seam like it would play any games very well.

If you try it, let us know your experiences!

hooperre · 2 Jun 2017, 23:35

@backstander Will do.

I've only seen people doing it on a Pi 2. Pi 3 probably won't be significantly better. What I would do to run Age of Empires on my Pi knows no limits. Once I get my build 'final' (never) I'll definitely be moving on to trying it.

edmaul69 · 5 Feb 2017, 06:00

Im gonna have to get windows 3.1 so i can play their version of solitaire and minesweeper. Plus i want to try out indiana jones.

edmaul69 · 2 Jun 2017, 01:23

@backstander can you tell me how to get sound working in windows 3.1 on dosbox on the pi. On both the pi and the pc i use the sb16win3x.iso (extracted to a folder on the pi) when i click on all the audio software stuff like the creative mixer it tells me that the .dll'are missing and the exe's are missing even though the sb16 folder and all of its contents are there and i cant get the windows sounds to work either because of this.

Edit: nm i figured it out. You have To install it all in a specific way for it to work with dosbox

edmaul69 · 6 Feb 2017, 17:04

@backstander how did you get windows 3.1 out of 16 color mode and into 256 colors. I tried to play indiana jones but cant because of that.

backstander · 6 Feb 2017, 17:39

@edmaul69
I don't remember having problems with the color mode when I had it installed. I don't have it currently installed on my RPi. You might have to Google Windows 3.1 in DOSBox color mode.

backstander · 6 Feb 2017, 18:58

@edmaul69
Okay, I remember installed a graphic card drive. I followed a tutorial but I didn't save it.

Here's another tutorial showing how to install the S3 video driver:
http://www.howtogeek.com/230359/how-to-install-windows-3.1-in-dosbox-set-up-drivers-and-play-16-bit-games/

edmaul69 · 2 Jun 2017, 20:03

@backstander i found a nice guide with links to all kinds of stuff for this. Had to install s3 in windows setup outside of windows gui because of it looking for s3 flat driver disk otherwise. Someone else had this issue so this was the way to fix that. Got the s3 video drivers installed, ibm joystick drivers installed, so my controller works in games and even in windows.

backstander · 6 Feb 2017, 22:08

@edmaul69

ibm joystick drivers installed, so my controller works in games and even in windows.

That's a great idea! Maybe when I revisit this, I'll install joystick drivers for Win3.1!

edmaul69 · 6 Feb 2017, 22:14

@backstander i didnt have to install any mouse drivers or anything to make the usb devices work. Just the old ibmjoy driver. I will post a link to where i got a lot of drivers and guides from when i am at my computer.

edmaul69 · 2 Jun 2017, 22:23

@backstander heres the link. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405

backstander · 7 Feb 2017, 15:43

Thanks @edmaul69 ! I like the added Win32s, VfW and Quicktime from this walkthrough.

edmaul69 · 7 Feb 2017, 19:02

@backstander yup i had to install those too. I also installed photoshop 3.0, ms office 3.0, word perfect and some others. I cannot get star wars: yoda stories to install. Tried two versions and the demo. I reinstalled everything today because i had originally installed windows 3.11 instead of windows for workgroups 3.11.

backstander · 7 Feb 2017, 20:43

@edmaul69
I did a quick search and I found a forum stating that Yoda Stories was a Win 95 game and not a Win 3.1 game. I could have sworn I had it installed on Win 3.1 on my RPi in DOSBox!
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=39204

hooperre · 8 Feb 2017, 17:24

@HPK-de - Saw you did some Win 95 testing on the RPi3. Any luck with Age of Empires by chance?

drake999 · 14 Feb 2017, 16:53

@hooperre I installed Windows 3.1 on DosBox on the Pi3 in a matter of minutes. It was amusing because it detected the CPU as a 250 MHz 486. Runs like a dream and the few Windows 3.1 games I tried to run, besides some config issues, seemed to run very well.

edmaul69 · 14 Feb 2017, 20:05

@hooperre as drake stated, it is really easy to install. I had absolutely no issues. I installed about 40 games. Runs great.

drake999 · 14 Feb 2017, 20:33

I've recently become aware of an open source emulation / virtualization suite called QEMU, which can apparently run Windows 95 and Windows 98 on the Raspberry Pi, and may even be able to run Windows XP (but don't expect awesome performance from XP). Now I just heard about it so take it with a grain of salt, but apparently there is a guy on Youtube running Windows 95 and 98 simultaneously on a Pi2. I'm curious about this and may look into it when I have time. I'll post the results when if / when I get the opportunity to play with this. If someone else wants to give it a whirl feel free. I'm curious to hear your experiences.