An issue of personal nostalgia: How to run Windows 3.11 under OSX?
Juan I. Cahis
This is an issue of personal nostalgia: How to run Windows 3.11 under
OSX? (Snow Leopard)
Which could be the best alternative?
-) CrossOver?
-) DosBox?
-) Boxer?
-) ????
Any hint?
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
David Empson
> Dear friends:
>
> This is an issue of personal nostalgia: How to run Windows 3.11 under
> OSX? (Snow Leopard)
>
> Which could be the best alternative?
>
> -) CrossOver?
No. CrossOver is for running specific Windows applications WITHOUT
running Windows itself.
> -) DosBox?
Judging from the DosBox Wiki, Windows up to version 3.11 only partially
works, so it won't be a particularly good experience.
> -) Boxer?
Probably not. Its main aim (like DosBox) is to emulate MS-DOS well
enough to run old games, not to run something major like Windows. It is
derived from DosBox.
A better solution would be any of the virtual machine software: VMware
Fusion, Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox. Of the three, VirtualBox is
free.
Unfortunately they have limited support for MS-DOS and very old versions
of Windows: the operating system will run, but they don't integrate well
with the host operating system due to lack of support software from the
VM developer. In later Windows versions (typically Windows 2000 or
newer) the VM can install software in Windows called "Guest Extras" (or
similar) which provides much smoother integration with the Mac.
The main issues due to missing this support are: no easy way to copy
files in and out of the VM, no auto-detection of resizing the VM window,
mouse and keyboard are captured by the VM requiring a special key
combination to return control to the Mac, no support for using the Mac's
printer from the VM.
I just got a copy of MS-DOS running in VMware Fusion, which was a
challenge.
I created a boot floppy on a real PC (I actually used Virtual PC running
on my PowerMac 8600, which has a floppy drive), created a disk image
from that floppy, then booted the VMware Fusion virtual machine from the
disk image.
Once I got the virtual hard drive set up, MS-DOS installed on it and
booting, and a working CD-ROM driver installed, I was able to copy files
into the virtual machine by creating a CD-ROM image, but copying files
out of the virtual machine requires the use of a virtual floppy disk, or
shutting down the VM, mounting its virtual hard drive on the Mac and
accessing it directly.
I haven't tried installing MS-DOS networking support yet, but it is
available as an option.
From a quick glance, Parallels and VirtualBox wouldn't have done much
better for an MS-DOS guest.
VMware Fusion doesn't have any better support for Windows up to 3.11. I
didn't have a close look at Parallels or VirtualBox support for Windows
3.11 as I didn't want to run Windows in my virtual machine.
--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz
thepixelfreak
<jiclbchS...@attglobal.net> said:
vmware or viruabox.
--
thepixelfreak
John Varela
<jiclbchS...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> This is an issue of personal nostalgia: How to run Windows 3.11 under
> OSX? (Snow Leopard)
>
> Which could be the best alternative?
>
> -) CrossOver?
> -) DosBox?
> -) Boxer?
> -) ????
>
> Any hint?
I am able to run windows 3.1 under OS/2 in Parallels Desktop 4 under
Snow Leopard. I haven't actually done anything with it but it seems
to work, except for the sound.
--
John Varela
Trade NEWlamps for OLDlamps for email
Warren Oates
Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchS...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Which could be the best alternative?
>
> -) CrossOver?
> -) DosBox?
> -) Boxer?
> -) ????
>
> Any hint?
Virtual Box from Sun lists Win 3.1 as a "supported" OS. I don't know
what they actually mean by "support," but at least they understand what
you want.
--
Very old woody beets will never cook tender.
-- Fannie Farmer
Alan Browne
> Dear friends:
>
> This is an issue of personal nostalgia: How to run Windows 3.11 under
> OSX? (Snow Leopard)
>
> Which could be the best alternative?
>
> -) CrossOver?
> -) DosBox?
> -) Boxer?
> -) ????
>
> Any hint?
Should run under VMWare Fusion and probably under Parallels.
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