256 color windows 3.11 dosbox driver#

In Dosbox you can get 1024x768 SuperVGA resolution in Windows 3.1 with the Tseng Video driver and a couple of the private CVS Dosbox builds that include support for it. I have no idea whether that would work on the CompUSA branded cards and I don't think anything before Windows 98 supported DVD playback. ATI even offered their DVD player software back then that worked fine with them. I think ATI has those on their driver download pages though. The last driver set is probably included on the CompUSA cd, but who knows whether that includes the Windows 3.1 driver. I think CompUSA still sells them today using their own brand. And those cards didn't have the greatest reputation but they were widespread due to a lot of OEM use.

256 color windows 3.11 dosbox install#

That's about the best ATI card you'll get for a native Win 3.1 install with real drivers. But the older less video intensive games will play fine even on that older computer.Р”Вidn't fall in love with my Dosbox idea, eh? Got to tell you it works great.Р”Р„nyway, I remember there being ATI Win 3.1 releases for the Rage Pro series of cards. Dosbox does need a speedy processor for really late Dos era games. If you're running a really old circa 1999 computer then you will have problems. If you have a computer of let's say a 5 year old vintage then a lot of problems have been solved with speed and stuff. If you tried Dosbox for dos games in the past and had problems, the latest version is very much improved. The 'Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego' up to date version has a Windows 3.1 installer in it and the game played just as well as it does on modern Windows. Heck, I had the 16 bit QuickTime and Real Player working too.

256 color windows 3.11 dosbox drivers#

You can learn all you need to do this and get links to the drivers by browsing around in the dosbox forum. And you need to get the SB 16 driver as the plain SoundBlaster driver included in Windows 3.1 just doesn't cut it. However, in Dosbox it runs great! There's no internet like you can setup in VMWare but it'll run your Win3.1 games better with full sound (with the Creative SB 16 Driver) and pretty video! You do need the CVS version of Dosbox with the patch for the TSENG driver installed to get the better resolutions. So running Windows with a crappy display and no sound wasn't worth my time. Well, I also ran into the problem that my SBLive MS-DOS driver that worked fine in Dos would choke Windows 3.1 so it wouldn't start with the driver active. ATI just never bothered (and who could blame them) with 3.1 drivers for the Radeon. Another reason for that experiment being short lived was that crappy display resolution you're talking about. I didn't want to be hit with a nasty from that environment.

Gosh, that was a nice machine!Р”Р„nyway, although I had internet using it that way (cool browsing around with the old Netscape), I didn't stay on for long. It was the good old Abit KT7A with a T-Bird 1.2 processor. It was slightly older than my current system and I was using a Radeon 7500 at the time. I've used Windows For Workgroups 3.11 in a regular modern day computer. Yeah man, virtualization is the way to go for something that old.