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    RPi3 Win 3.1/95 Emulation In DOSBox?

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69
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      @backstander heres the link. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405

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

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          edmaul69 @backstander
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          @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.

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            backstander @edmaul69
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            @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

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

              4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                drake999 @hooperre
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                @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.

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                • edmaul69E
                  edmaul69 @hooperre
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                  @hooperre as drake stated, it is really easy to install. I had absolutely no issues. I installed about 40 games. Runs great.

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                    drake999
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                    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.

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                    • hooperreH
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                      Please do!

                      4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                        Spiky
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                        So I just installed Windows 3.11 with video and audio drivers successfully on my Pi3 with RetroPie, everything is working. Now, did anyone try to make Windows 95 work? That's probably what I am gonna do next, so I would be happy if anyone could share his experience.

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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69 @Spiky
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                          @Spiky you need to make a specific image file (fake hard drive). Only problem is the program isnt available anymore and nobody seems to have made it downloadable on another site.

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                            Spiky @edmaul69
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                            @edmaul69 Could you explain that a bit? Why do I need image file as HDD? I did not need that for Win 3.11

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                              edmaul69 @Spiky
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                              @Spiky dosbox does not natively support windows 95.

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                                Spiky @edmaul69
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                                @edmaul69 I see. By the way, I think I found the image you talked about: https://sites.google.com/site/dotalshoff/games/dosbox. Here is a guide that looks useful http://dsync.blogspot.sk/2014/03/a-complete-guide-to-install-windows-95.html, but I will most likely not be able to give it a try today.

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                                • hooperreH
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                                  I have 3.1 up and running as well and was going to post a couple of DOSBox related questions trying to autocall "win winexit.exe D:\Civ2\Civ2.exe" always causes a low memory error. I'll revisit it later I guess, but it's nice to have my favorite game of all time on my RPi3.

                                  Anyway, this is the guide I was going to try to follow to get Win95 working, but think I'm going to work on 3.11 for a bit longer.

                                  4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                    Spiky
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                                    So I "almost" managed to make Windows 95 work. My goal was to prepare HDD image on my notebook and then copy it to RetroPie on my Pi3. When I finally made it, my Win95 was installed, but sadly with few graphical glitches - mouse was a big black square and there were icons appearing/disappearing on the desktop - but as far I know, there is some way to fix this from DOSBox settings.

                                    Anyway, it was already too late and I had to get some sleep, so I still have to give it a try on my Pi3. I only tried it with HDD image with Windows just installed (before the first real run) and it took 10 minutes until I gave it up, as there was only black screen after letting me know that Windows is being prepared...

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                                    • edmaul69E
                                      edmaul69 @Spiky
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                                      @Spiky the big block is normal. Once you get into windows, change it to 16 colors. This corrects that. Then it will always be fixed anytime after that. Even when you make a new image you wont have to change it to 16 colors. Only that first time. You can change it back but you want it to be in 16 colors when you put it on the pi. But make sure you have the s3 trio 64 pci driver on your image before putting it on the pi. We only found one 95 disk that worked on the pi though. There is a guide being put together for all of this.

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                                        Spiky @edmaul69
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                                        @edmaul69 I followed this guide http://dsync.blogspot.sk/2014/03/a-complete-guide-to-install-windows-95.html, except few mistakes, I had no problem. No clue if it contains s3 trio 64 pci driver. Do I need to explicitly install it? If so, could you provide source?

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                                          edmaul69 @Spiky
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                                          @Spiky s3 still has a webpage with all of their drivers. I cant verify for sure if the trio 32/64 pci or the trio 3d is better but they both work on dosbox. Run in 256 colors good. Better than the default s3 drivers.

                                          http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/legacy_software_archive.aspx

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                                            Spiky
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                                            OK, so I finally managed to make it work... Problem is that it only runs in safe mode on Pi3, while it works great on my notebook with Windows 8.

                                            There is this legendary Win95 loading screen for 1-2 seconds, then it goes black and that's it. I have to CTRL+F9 out of DosBox. When I run it again, I am asked if I want to go to safe mode - when I do it, Windows boots up in few seconds. Any idea what could be the problem?

                                            Also, I set it up to 16 colors in safe mode and I am using following steps to run it:
                                            imgmount c hdd-1gb.img
                                            boot hdd-1gb.img

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