EGA on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Nov 1998

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  From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
&lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
 &lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
 Date: Saturday, 14 November 1998 10:11
 Subject: Minimum hardware requirements (Was: Old, but not "Classic"

 On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Charles Oblender wrote:
  I've seen a 286 that ran Windows 3.0 pretty
well. 
An 8088 XT will run Windows 3.00  in real mode, yes,  have a friend who still has
one
 with it installed.

 An 80286 AT can also do 3.10  and 3.11 as
well.  In Standard mode.
 Again, a friend has an NEC compatible with 6mb of ram
 and Win 3.11 installed.  Works pretty well actually.

 An 80386SX can do Windoze95  

 I have done this.  It does work.  But it is VERY slow.
 Microsoft don't recommend it, since 95 is optimised for
 32 bit all the way.  But it's possible, if you are a masochist.

 3.0 can run with CGA.  
 3.x (.0 .1 &.11) can use EGA, CGA and even Hercules, I've done the EGA &
 CGA, not
 tried Hercules, but the drivers are on Microsofts Windows 3.x Driver library
 site.

 3.10 SUPPOSEDLY can use the 3.0 CGA drivers, but
they don't always work;  
 Seems to be card dependent.  But it does work on many.

 3.1 therefore needs EGA
I've never tried below VGA for Windoze95  
 EGA is allegedly possible, but I've never tried it.  I believe it involves
 using  3.x drivers or some other ugliness.  But it is supposed to be possible. 
Sure works here.  I've also used Hercules drivers with Windows For Workgroups.
This got TCP/IP and the internet up on a 386SX 25 here.
Use old OLD 1.x netscape.  I'm not sure if 2.0 works with less than
VGA.  V1.x did just fine.  I actually put in a Mono-VGA card from
Paradise that lets me use the EGA driver and runs fairly well.
I like it better than the old mono driver I had tried.

The trick is there's no Windows For Workgroups RLE logo for non-vga... but 
I pulled the 3.0 logo from my 3.0 set and used that instead after I got 
tired of seeing the blank screen at startup time.

The logo's concatinated with the binary to make the win.com file.

I don't believe you can run Win95 the same way... on 3.x drivers.

Bill