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Does WFW work okay with other DOS?
Name: Phil Calvert Date: August 13, 2006 at 08:41:07 Pacific OS: Win2K, Debian stable CPU/Ram: PII_300 MHz_256 MB
Comment:
Hi,
I have a WFW 3.11 CD from an old computer. Unfortunately, I don't believe I bothered to save the MS-DOS 6.22 diskettes (stupid of me). If I did, I don't know what I did with them. Will Win 3.1 / WFW 3.11 work fine with other versions of DOS (preferably one that is available for free somewhere)?
Phil
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates
Name: Netboy76 Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:24:28 Pacific
Reply:
Also free is DR DOS 7.03 it should be still around if you search for it.
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Response Number 4
Name: Phil Calvert Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:30:21 Pacific
Reply:
Hmmm, I think the easiest thing to do is to just use DOS 7.1. Since I also have Win98, that would be the easiest thing to do. Of course, I will need to apply a patch in order for it to work.
Phil
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates
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Response Number 5
Name: dosser Date: August 13, 2006 at 10:32:03 Pacific
Reply:
DR-DOS is FREE for Personal Use:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/drdos/
Also "3XSTART.EXE Patch to enable Windows 3.1x to run under MS-DOS 7.xx (aka WinDOS) and FAT32 (Part of W95 OSR2-KIT.EXE)"
http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htm
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Response Number 6
Name: os2fan2 Date: August 16, 2006 at 02:45:58 Pacific
Reply:
Windows for Workgroups will run quite nicely under both PC-DOS and MS-DOS. It does work well with DR-DOS, but microsoft's alterations to Windows with the view of excluding other DOS versions has been a subject of court cases, eg Digital Research vs MSFT.
I have run it under PC-DOS and OS/2 for years.
W
The dream you dream alone is only a dream, The dream we dream together is reality.
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Response Number 7
Name: Phil Calvert Date: August 16, 2006 at 12:12:16 Pacific
Reply:
Hello os2fan2,
Does Windows perform any differently when running within OS/2? For example, is it more stable? And what about speed?
Phil
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates
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Response Number 8
Name: os2fan2 Date: August 29, 2006 at 00:35:45 Pacific
Reply:
You have to raid hobbes site to get the necessary fixes to run WfW under OS/2. But it does work.
OS/2 does come with winos2, which is an ibm recompile of the same code that microsoft used for win31. It has a number of bugs removed (eg calc: 3.11-3.10 = 0.01, not 0.00, the uskbdx driver has the euro symbol, etc). If you have OS/2, you can extract the winos2 files for use under dos!
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