Trip down memory lane - emulator of DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 will run in your browser with no setup required

Archive.org ^ | April 6, 1992 | Microsoft

[fireman15]

This is a link to an archive.org page with a working emulator based on DosBox that will run in your browser just by clicking on the "Emulate it!" picture at the top of the page. It takes a minute or two to load everything up and then the screen goes blank for a little bit when you make your selection. Hit the speaker icon and then the full screen button and you will be transported back to computing in 1992. This has worked in every browser that I have tried it in including Brave, Chrome, and Edge, but your mileage may vary.Hit the escape key to get out of full screen mode.

https://archive.org/details/windows-3.11-sgvm

[DUMBGRUNT]

But I don’t have a floppy drive installed to use my ancient SW???

I have one on the shelf, do drivers still exist?

[fireman15]

I have one on the shelf, do drivers still exist?

Most of them do not need drivers these days but who knows with whatever you have had sitting around for the last couple of decades. You could buy a new one from Jeff Bezos for $20.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RXEWOAA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1WY57GZC3POO3&psc=1

[Retrofitted]

Nuke War? They have... Nuke War? Avalon Hill? 1980? That's it. I'm now completely useless to society. https://archive.org/details/a2_Nukewar_1980_Avalon_Hill

Thank you so much!

[CatOwner]

You may have something there with thongs. That might have sold a few more games with the computer nerds back in the day.

[zeugma]

LOL!

LLL was awesome!

[sauropod]

hmmmm...

Wonder if they have Supertrek. Ran on Basic on a mainframe IIRC.

[corkoman]

ZORK

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

Infidel!

[eyedigress]

I have all that on 5” floppies.

[eyedigress]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy circa 1984.

“Eat Babelfish”

[dayglored]

Windows 3.1 ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to Army Air Corps for the ping!

[shotgun]

Does that mean I can go back to running AutoCad 14 and Eagle Point 14 for Civil Engineering projects?

[shotgun]

Is that you Bryce?

[Cboldt]

frotz

[Tunehead54]

Sounds interesting. I had a number of programs (most related) - think Windows in DOS using QuickBasic and assembly language calls.

How do you bring up the DosBox? Your link goes a windows 3.11 source.

I did find https://www.dosbox.com/ so I can probably work it out but do you install Win 3.11 into a DOSBox?

Be fun to see them in action again. ;-)

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups

[Political Junkie Too]

My first computer was a TI-99/4A.

I don't know why.

-PJ

[fireman15]

Does that mean I can go back to running AutoCad 14 and Eagle Point 14 for Civil Engineering projects?

There are a number of ways to emulate Windows 95. And some of them will most likely work fine with your copies of Autocad 14 and Eagle Point 14.

Here is a fun link to a browser based Windows 95 emulator.

https://www.windows93.net/

[fireman15]

Mine too. I still have it and it still works. (Usually the capacitors in the power supplies go bad and have to be replaced.) I even have a fully populated expansion box for it with disk drives.

[Political Junkie Too]

I lost mine a long time ago. I still have an Apple //e, duo disk drives, upgraded ZIP chip, Okidata printer, color monitor, joysticks, and old utilities and games on 5.25" floppies.

And some copies of Nibble magazine.

-PJ

[Still Thinking]

I had an XP VM for some work software and the DOS box in XP in the VM would still run Islands of Danger (DANGER.EXE), awesome old character mode DVD game.

[Still Thinking]

DOS, not DVD. Thanks, Android!