Posted by Noah Petherbridge on Friday, February 13 2009 @ 09:34:34 PM For a limited time only, files for installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1! You can download everything from my. I have some downloads for the following things:. MS-DOS 6.22 Installer Floppy Images. Windows 3.1 Installer Floppy Images.
Drivers:. CD-ROM Driver (Floppy Image). DOSIDLE to make DOS not consume 100% CPU(Floppy Image). WQGHLT to make Windows not consume 100% CPU (Floppy Image). SoundBlaster 16 Drivers (CD Image) Installation Notes: The version of Windows in this tarball is 3.1 - not Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (for that, download it separately from ). I got ahold of this version of Windows 3.1 from a CD image instead of floppies, so I had to convert them to floppy images myself, and not all the files fit on all the disks (there should only be 6 disk images but there's 7 in this tarball).
Windows 3.1 can still be installed from these images, it will just require more disk juggling. When you get a 'Can't read file' error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. Update: If you want to download the components separately (DOS, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the drivers) you can find individual links on my. Another Update: (10/11/12) If you have issues with erratic mouse movement within Windows 3.1 on VirtualBox, some solutions are (from ):. Start Windows in standard mode ( win /s).
Disable hardware virtualization (in the System/Acceleration tab in the VM settings). Find a video driver that supports more than 16 colors (more info ).
Update (5/16/16): I'm no longer hosting the bundled tarball that contains all the files + a VirtualBox preinstalled disk image to clean up disk space on my server. Instead, download all the components and install it yourself. Links. guides for installing MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups on old PCs. Okay, so the install of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.22 in a VM on QEMU went without any problems, except for one peculiar problem: WQGHLT does what it needs to do (frees CPU cycles), but DOSIDLE does not. Also, when putting it in my AUTOEXEC, the whole system either freezes on startup (more common), or it gives a 'divide error' (or similar), keeping one of my cores at 100%.
The effect is particularly noticeable when going into Windows 3.1, equipped with WQGHLT, from the command prompt, and seeing the usage in Task Manager on the host system go down significantly. Am I doing something wrong here?
Having a problem trying to put this on an old Dell Latitude. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to install Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS, if I try to boot from one of the floppies I get this message: Remove disks and other media. Press any key to restart. I'm fairly certain there isn't a problem with the floppy drive because I'm able to boot an MS-DOS startup disk I created with the Windows Explorer format tool (in Windows 7). I've tried booting this startup disk, then switched to an MS-DOS floppy, then ran SETUP from there but it then get a message: To install MS-DOS, insert Setup Disk 1 in drive A and press CTRL+ALT+DEL. This will restart your computer and begin the setup program. Is there something I need to do to make these floppies bootable or something before I copy the image over to them?
@Kirsle I installed it successfully on my Windows OS with VirtualBox 4.1.8 like, say, 2 months ago. FYI, I've used the command 'vboxmanage' to convert the VDI image provided in your tarball to a VHD image.
I tested it on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, but your Windows 3.1 (in 386 Enh. Mode) would not boot for a full 1.5 minutes after I typed 'WIN' in the DOS prompt. It also gives you those funny errors like this: PROGMAN.EXE caused a General Protection Fault in XXXX:YYYY. Then, it makes you go back to MS-DOS. I really need Windows 3.1 for the sole purpose of using Paint.
Without getting technical (coz I'd only confuse myself!!!) Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!!). I've read comments etc on here, but I really haven't got a clue about computers. Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC. I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? Many many thanks in advance Jayne. I really need Windows 3.1 for the sole purpose of using Paint.
Without getting technical (coz I'd only confuse myself!!!) Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!!). I've read comments etc on here, but I really haven't got a clue about computers. Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC. I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? Many many thanks in advance Jayne. If you would like to view various other old DOS operating systems, I found these pages.
VirtualBox Guest Additions don't support any version of Windows older than Windows 2000/XP, so shared folders won't work. Other ideas:. If the networking works, try an FTP server you can connect to from within the virtual machine. Create a you attach to the VM to copy files to/from, then detach it from the VM and mount it as a loopback device on the host OS to access files. For a host-to-guest only transfer, create an ISO image (some CD burners on Linux let you turn a folder into an ISO file instead of burning to disk; you'd select your folder, right-click 'burn to disk' and on the burn:/// URI the button to actually burn would pop up a window where one option is to make an ISO instead. Power off the DOS VM, and attach its hard disk as a secondary drive on a newer VM (i.e.
Windows XP or Linux) which does support guest additions. Note that two VMs can not be powered on at the same time if they have the same disk attached! MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 were originally distributed as floppy disks, so no CD-based installation is supported. On I have an 'unpacked' Windows 3.11 install folder (it's a single zip file that contains all files from all Win3.11 floppy disks). You could turn that into an ISO file using any ISO creation tool. It will not be directly bootable, however.
So at a bare minimum you could:. Install MS-DOS from floppy disk images (no CD/ISO based install is supported for MS-DOS). Or if you have a DOS boot floppy that has CD-ROM drivers built in, boot that and then mount an ISO containing all the unpacked MS-DOS floppy files. But basically, a floppy disk boot is going to be used one way or another. Install a CD-ROM driver into MS-DOS so that you can mount a CD as D: for example.
Create an ISO based on the unpacked Win3.11 install files and mount it as D:. Install Win3.11 from there, rather than the floppy on A:. The installation would happen more or less the same way except it won't ask you to insert the next floppy disk, as all the files it needs are already present on D:. BTW: I used a command similar to this to automagically mount and copy all files from the Win3.11 disk images into one folder (from a Linux system) to create the unpacked zip file. I read a post asking why would anyone want to run this old OS. (I go back to 3.20) I run 6.22 because of a radio BBS system I helped develop back in the 80's.
I still have it running on a old Dell Optiplex (slim line). I know its going to die one of these days, so this site has put the bug in me to get on a newer machine. I also run a similar vintage Optiplex tower with Win98, using it as a file storage machine. These rigs are over 25 years old, so am treading on thin ice; especially since they run 24/7.
So, I go from MSDOS to Server2008 plus Win7. The fun part of 6.22 is scripting for extra memory.
The BBS takes a lot of extra RAM to function. Anyone remember the old game of Eliza?
My old 8088/8086 machine is used for EPROM burning and Amtor. (not that I burn any PROM's any more) What's my favorite OS? Vista, hands down, but this old stuff is a kick to fool with. I purchased my first computer in late 1978.
MS-DOS did not exist yet but TRSDOS is what I learned to use. During the 1980's I wrote a complete set of accounting programs while being an Accounting Manager. When IBM's PC came out I slowly switched to Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS and continues to write programs. Sure, the PCs today are better but not faster for the work I was doing. I recently fired up an old Windows 98 computer and my TRS-80 portable and both work very well.
But I could not recoup an old IBM desktop running win 3.1 that had the two floppy sizes. I still have tons of 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 disks holding my old programs that worked very well during the 80's. Now I'm writing a similar set of programs that work with win 95 to win 8 and trying to get my previous stuff in text format. The win 98 has a 3-1/2 disk drive and an MS-DOS prompt that I can use but will come back here it I need to download win 3.1 I'm glad I found this site while it's still around. The TRS-80 model 4 uses only 2 5-1/4 disks and there is no way to get my stuff transferred out of those TRSDOS disks into something like a text file I can read with more recent windows computers. Hello Kirsle Firstly thank you for this webpage and your downloads.
Install Windows 1 01 Dosbox Helper
I am looking t install Dos 6.22 in a VM. I have downloaded and installed Virtualbox as per your suggestion. I have attempted to create VM and point it to the unzipped Dos 6.22 img files but when I do I get a message saying the File is not correct and cannot load the OS? Well that is not the exact wording but you get the idea. Am I doing something wrong? Others seem t have success so I think it must be me?
VB seems to be looking for an optical file and doesn't like the.img? Please help as I really need this to work.
Thank you in advance. Has nobody noticed that the Windows 3.1 floppies are messed up, or am I the only one? The MS-DOS floppies are fine, but three files on the Windows floppies are corrupt (Windows Setup brings up an 'Unable to read file' error), and the files on the Windows floppies are arranged incorrectly across the disks. For example, Setup will ask for Disk 2, and you stick it in, and then later it will ask for Disk 2 again, at which point you actually need to stick in Disk 3, because for whatever reason some files that are supposed to be on Disk 2 are on Disk 3 instead. This happens across a couple other disks, too. Both of these issues happen in both Virtualbox and on a physical computer. In the for this (these comments are shared between the blog and the /msdos page) I mentioned what the cause of this is.
I got ahold of this version of Windows 3.1 from a CD image instead of floppies, so I had to convert them to floppy images myself, and not all the files fit on all the disks (there should only be 6 disk images but there's 7 in this tarball). Windows 3.1 can still be installed from these images, it will just require more disk juggling. When you get a 'Can't read file' error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. I'll make a note of it on the /msdos page as well. Hi Kirsle, I think it's really cool to get some the old 90's stuff running again on modern hardware. But so far I have no luck.
I've downloaded and installed the latest version VirtualBox on my Windows 7 x64 machine. Unfortunately it keeps crashing as soon as I start any virtual machine. I've also tried to create one from scratch. I get it to boot from the first MS-DOS 6.22 floppy image, but after a few seconds I get a memory error and it just aborts the VM. It seems like a terribly unstable product.
Do you have any suggestions for me? What are the specs on the Windows 7 machine? It should have enough RAM to allocate some to a virtual machine while still having 50% for the host OS. Iirc MS-DOS VMs default to only needing some low amount of memory (like 128MB or something? DOS/Windows 3.1 wasn't a very memory hungry system by today's standards), you can probably just use the defaults.
If your host OS has only 1GB of RAM altogether that could be an issue still, though. VirtualBox as a product is really stable; I haven't had any issues with it. If your computer is like 10 years, get a new one. Hi Kirsle, Thanks for your reply. If my computer was 10 years old, there would be no need for a VM since a computer from that era should be perfectly capable to run Windows 3.11 as its primary OS. Actually my computer is quite new (Intel Core i7 with 8 GB RAM). So that shouldn't be a problem.
I've also tried this on another machine (Intel Xeon with 8 GB RAM) and the result is the same. VirtualBox just keeps crashing every time. In the meantime I was able however to install Windows 3.11 using DosBox. That worked like a charm.
Of course you don't get a snapshot mechanism with DosBox, that why I would prefer a VM. If you like DOS and/or its software you can participate in a new international project. We are looking for 100 users and 10 developers (to start), from all over the world who want to use DOS and if we find them, it will be back (updated and free, of course). The new software for this OS will be available, too.
If you are interested – contact us: dosrenewal@gmail.com and let us know that you want to use either DOS or its software so we could add you to the users list. In addition, we invite programmers interested in working on the DOS kernel, drivers and software. The good old days, the days before internet gotta love bbs simple modems logging into bulletin board systems searching for files like mod music and trackers even games like betrayal at krondor and the early Warcraft series those were the days now days you don't see real games on shelves anymore now you must use that crazy arse steam to pay play bugger that!!! You can keep your game I prefer the old way pay once not twice for software. Even Internet access prices are crazy too. Soon the net will only be for the rich!!! No matter the good old days were the best!
I've been told dosbox is supposedly easier to configure than virtualbox, which sun doesn't support. Any feedback? I would probably be attempting it on a windows host, unless I get a spare computer besides my business systems. To the ie5 question; ie5 won't run in windows 3.1x, I would try windows 98se or a 'light' installation of win 9x. Ie 5 is native to win2k. I think ie 3 might be the last for 16 bit win, I would try one of the old browsers of the time, like old netscape. For the people above that want win 3.x for a single 16 bit app; many apps, including many accessories bundled with win 3.10 and 3.11, will run by themselves inside a 32 bit windows xp installation.
(some may in a 32 bit windows 7 box as well, I haven't tried as many there. Starting with win8 ms dropped a lot of backward compatibility.) I don't remember if cardfile was one of those, but I would try copying that, old paint, and other accessories you need to a more modern installation. Of course, there were many 16 bit programs that would not run on a 32 bit windows, but you won't need a virtual box all the time for many apps. Looking to revive an old Dell 3000 laptop but need the full disk set 3.1 OS. Ultimately the plan is to go to 98SE but I'm going with the Upgrades 95 and 98 after 3.1 is installed only because I have those handy. Downloaded your Tarball file and Winzip 20 trial but just don't have a clue HOW to put those files to floppy disk.
Never really got too into using a zip extractor at all since the beginning of the PC. QUESTION: Can I actually accomplish this with your file or do I need a stand alone disk set. Really could use your thoughts on this.
Not being nostalgic but have a use for this laptop. I Found an old but unknown DOS!!! OSx16 Operating System (MS-DOS Compatible) BOOT-CD Image And BOOT-USB Image Files! I Found OSx16 Operating System Image Files In: And I Found Many links to OSx16 Operating System in some forums!!! OSx16 Operating System Image Files Includes Nice Collection of Atari 2600 Games And DOS Games and NES, SEGA.
I Found that OSx16 Supports USB sound cards!!! OSx16 Operating System Really Works With My USB sound card!!! (I Have HQ Sound with Atari Games And Some DOS Games!!!) (Ideal For PC(s)/Laptop(s) Systems, Without HDD, SOund Card!!!) Why Somethings Are So Unknown and Are in Shadow??? It Seems OSx16 is Closed source and Sahred As Free and As shareware!!
There is a game, in CD and USB (Bootable image files), that Only executable under MS-DOS, PC-DOS, only. Executing under Other MS-DOS Compatible!!!! Like the FreeDOS was Impossible!!! What is OSx16 Operating System????? Do You Know Anything About OSx16 Operating System? Google and/or bing and/or.
For MS-DOS Boot CD and Download it (burn the boot CD with burner). Boot System With MS-DOS Boot CD. Type: CD DOS Run FDISK and Create Partition/Partitions In Hard Disk. (and Reboot) Type And Execute 'C: DOS Format d: /s' command. (After Boot by Boot CD, Drive C is CD-ROM and Drive C of HDD Would be D) Copy DOS Directory(Folder) to c: (Just is D:) in Two steps: MD D: DOS COPY C: DOS??????????? D: DOS???????????
Remove CD From CD-ROM Drive And Restart System. Hi there I have a question, I have a old Compaq Contura 486DX-4 first i cleaned the harddrive.
Then i have installed MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 ( Compaq release ) Now i want to upgrade to Windows for Workgroups ( 3.11 ) The problem i get is afther the installation. Windows boot fine. Then afther the boot Windows freez en Mouse and keyboard not working. Have to restart system then when start Windows with a switch option. Win /D:T then it starts fine but there are allot of functions not started Like network and so on. ( a kinda safe mode ) Is there anybody that knows something about this problem?
Please help me out! Regarding Kluunsoft. Hi ALL, I just wanted to let everyone know I was able to get VERY GOOD quality MIDI going on a Windows 3.1 Virtualbox installation using Yamaha's S-YG20 Wavetable Synth.
Literally spent 2 or 3 hours scouring the 'internet archive' until I found a single location where the Windows 3.1 version was included a part of a bigger package of stuff. Only problem is that it is a 'trial' version and expires after 90 days or December 1997 (LOL) so you have to set Virtualbox to disable syncing of the system calendar/clock with the host, and then set the guest calendar to like Jan of 1997.
The file you want is called Yamaha S-YG20 version 1.091 t3. Its included in a larger self extracting.EXE that is supposed to be a plug-in for Netscape. (One interesting point: The MIDI here is 1000% times better than anything that comes with any version of Windows from VISTA onward. Sad to see MIDI fading away). @claude may have had this question, too. Q: Why are there 3 images in the DOS 622 zip?
Install Windows 1.01 On Vbox
A: This version came on three diskettes, and included a setup program that can install it on a hard drive. During the install, it prompts you to insert the next diskette(s). In Virtualbox, this is done by selecting the next image using the Storage setting.
BTW, you can boot from disk 1, exit setup, and have an A prompt, no hard drive or extra disks required. @Kirsle - this is awesome. I was looking at having to find where my diskettes are, find a good one, and a working drive.