VIRUS ALERT!

Dr. Mario · March 23, 2009, 12:28:38 AM

Exactly. All of those begun as Windows 1.01, ended with ME.
(Sure, I got to use the very first Windows, but it kept crashing on a Windows DOS disk, and in DOSbox, until I tried my GO64 AIOS firmware's command prompt, it worked - much to surprise, it's all over in 4-bit color, much uglier than Windows 2.0 I also tried.)

Smokey · March 23, 2009, 05:50:38 AM

Those two never caught on, because they were, well, rubbish... there was better stuff out there...

Red-Machine · March 23, 2009, 06:40:03 AM

Yeah. I don't take any pre-95 Windows OS seriously.

Dr. Mario · March 23, 2009, 07:54:46 AM

Still cool to actually marvel at those ancient software that I laid my hands on, though. Anyways, those are piece of history that we will never ever see again, ever. (unless written on holographic glass cube by laser-etching)

Smokey · March 23, 2009, 08:04:03 AM

Oh, i actually have more respect for windows 3.11 than for win95, win98/SE or winME... But that may have something to do with the way computers worked back then...reliable... ^_^

Dr. Mario · March 23, 2009, 08:34:14 AM

Surprise! I ran Windows 3.1 on Athlon 64 Venice 2.2 GHz CPU, even though it thought it's 486 (due to it not reading CPUID, it simply pronounce the CPU's a 486, by the CPUID's presence, even this one's FOUR generation ahead of 3.1's heyday, that is, 886.) wonderfully - I eventually did it in multicore operation, with different x86 RISC CPU, this time, of 986 generation, it ran fine, except it loaded in a mind-blowing clip rate, pretty fast!

Smokey · March 23, 2009, 10:26:50 AM

Yeah, that's one of the fun things in those old programs... they didn't know what CPU-throttle was, so they will go full whack on any CPU... ^_^

Dr. Mario · March 24, 2009, 07:36:35 AM

Can agree on this one. Too bad I can't use USB keyboard in Windows 3.1 and I knew that it's crazy hard to make a OHCI driver, let alone loaded by a firmware.

Smokey · March 24, 2009, 10:23:42 AM

Well in theory it should be possible to have win3.11 support the same things (hardware/network/64-bit) as Vista, although it would then be the question of how "win-3.11" would it still be?

Red-Machine · March 24, 2009, 10:31:58 AM

Well, "Windows 3.11 64-bit Edition" sound good?

Dr. Mario · March 24, 2009, 10:48:46 AM

;001 Been there, done it. I had to use different OS kernel (GO64 OS worked fine) and build some weird kind of WOW64 plugins, and build some driver, like video card, and PCI-express, and southbridge. And, oh yeah, JVM too!