A Toy uploaded for entertainment

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If anybody would like to play with standard Windows 3.11.
I have uploaded to alt.binaries.freeware a toy program called
Win 3.11 on a Floppy. Questionable that it is freeware, since
it really is a part of MS Windows 3.11 ... but, it is a free toy
for experimental entertainment.

It is only a program which will construct a bootdisk containing
an automatic installation .. on RAM drive ONLY ... no harm to
any real hard drive. It works. It plays. If you have any old
Windows 3.11 programs, try it out. It supports FAT-32, too.

Only a toy. Only a toy.
 
Lord Possum said:
If anybody would like to play with standard Windows 3.11.
I have uploaded to alt.binaries.freeware a toy program called
Win 3.11 on a Floppy. Questionable that it is freeware, since
it really is a part of MS Windows 3.11 ... but, it is a free toy
for experimental entertainment.

It is only a program which will construct a bootdisk containing
an automatic installation .. on RAM drive ONLY ... no harm to
any real hard drive. It works. It plays. If you have any old
Windows 3.11 programs, try it out. It supports FAT-32, too.

Only a toy. Only a toy.
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I'd like to check it out, but do you have it up on a site somewhere ?
Many of us use a news server that doesn't carry the binaries groups.
 
jona said:
I'd like to check it out, but do you have it up on a site somewhere ?
Many of us use a news server that doesn't carry the binaries groups.
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I'm waiting with baited breath and Drive A: at the ready, but goodness
knows what route it's taking - it still hasn't propagated to the Demon
news servers.
Or perhaps they only update every week ...
 
I'm waiting with baited breath and Drive A: at the ready, but goodness
knows what route it's taking - it still hasn't propagated to the Demon
news servers.
Or perhaps they only update every week ...
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I've seen no sign of it either.

BoB
(e-mail address removed)
 
Roger Hunt said:
I'm waiting with baited breath and Drive A: at the ready, but goodness
knows what route it's taking - it still hasn't propagated to the Demon
news servers.
Or perhaps they only update every week ...
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Just checked again this past minute, and the six parts are there,
alt.binaries.freeware
 
Gosh ... I just realized it was uploaded with the name of MICROWIN.EXE,
not Win3.11 on a Floppy. So sorry, guys ... the latter was the title of a
special folder I kept it in.
 
Lord Possum said:
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Just checked again this past minute, and the six parts are there,
alt.binaries.freeware
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Way-Hey! Downloading bodies now ....

Thanks very much. :-)
 
Lord Possum said:
Gosh ... I just realized it was uploaded with the name of MICROWIN.EXE,
not Win3.11 on a Floppy. So sorry, guys ... the latter was the title of a
special folder I kept it in.
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(Wandering OT ...)

Thank goodness for Free Agent.
This was my first experience of doing something with yenc things and
Turnpike 5.01 doesn't seem to be quite the tool. TP6 probably supports
it but somehow I've never got around to upgrading.
I did try decoding with yenc32-106.exe (www.yenc.com), but it did not
quite succeed - I was just a little bit out with what I was offering.
Installed Free Agent, downloaded, and it did it all brilliantly.

Nice mix of vintages on the disk - ME sys files, W98 msdos.sys, and W3.1
 
Lord Possum said:
If anybody would like to play with standard Windows 3.11.
I have uploaded to alt.binaries.freeware a toy program called
Win 3.11 on a Floppy. Questionable that it is freeware, since
it really is a part of MS Windows 3.11 ... but, it is a free toy
for experimental entertainment.

It is only a program which will construct a bootdisk containing
an automatic installation .. on RAM drive ONLY ... no harm to
any real hard drive. It works. It plays. If you have any old
Windows 3.11 programs, try it out. It supports FAT-32, too.

Only a toy. Only a toy.
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Will it work on XP Home using NTFS?

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Frank Bohan
¶ The meek shall inherit the earth, if nobody minds.
 
Yes ... since the expanded fileage is located in and operated from RAM.
However, I am in doubt that it will recognize your NTFS hard drive, since
the boot disk uses DOS 7.1 from ME to provide the environment. Although
the Win 3.11 operates just fine in a FAT-32 environment, I would not
recommend trying to write anything to the NTFS hard drive while playing
with the Win 3.11 in RAM.

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Yes ... since the expanded fileage is located in and operated from RAM.
However, I am in doubt that it will recognize your NTFS hard drive, since
the boot disk uses DOS 7.1 from ME to provide the environment.
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It should be possible to read from it (for free) using NTFSDOS from
www.sysinternals.com
Although
the Win 3.11 operates just fine in a FAT-32 environment, I would not
recommend trying to write anything to the NTFS hard drive while playing
with the Win 3.11 in RAM.
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Don't think it's possible without paying money either.
 
Roger Hunt said:
It should be possible to read from it (for free) using NTFSDOS from
www.sysinternals.com
Don't think it's possible without paying money either.
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Thanks for the replies. I think I'll be cautious and give this one a miss.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Sapere aude!
 
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