20 Oct
2004
20 Oct
'04
7:52 p.m.
At 05:58 21/10/2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Does anyone have any experience running MS-DOS 6.22 on
VPC? I've managed
to get Win3.1 running in SVGA mode at 600x800, and I've got some of my old
DOS software copied over.
What I really want to know how to do is access the CD-ROM, Ethernet Card,
and if possible get video drivers for the S3 card that VPC emulates. Oh,
and I need a mouse driver for the PS/2 Mouse so I can run a couple games :^)
What model S3 card is it? I may have some old driver discs about here for S3..
CD-ROMS you usually need a driver in the config.sys (try pinching the one
off a Win98 boot floppy) and MSCDEX in the autoexec.bat to link it to a
drive letter.
Network is easy enough; grab the TCP/IP extensions for Win3.11 (they used
to be on Microsoft's website, but I don't know if they still are. I ought
to have a copy of them too, somewhere..) and you can use these outside of
Windows too, once set up. This will also allow you to map network drives,
access printers, etc, (assuming you have SMB compatible shares somewhere).
In case anyone cares, so far I've gotten the
following working:
AROS
BeOS 4.5
BeOS Max
MS-DOS 6.22/Win 3.1
Windows 98SE
Windows XP Pro SP2 (it came with this, so it had better work)
Obviously only Win98 and WinXP support the cooler features such as mapping
folders on the Mac as network drives, and printing to the Mac printer.
Zane
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