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What year is this?

#winamp #retrocomputing #homelab #windows3

Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds

#HackerNews #Windows3.1 #Backgrounds #BMP #Archive #RetroComputing #Nostalgia #GitHub #Archive

If you were wondering if you could print from a #hpux system running a #windows3 application via Wabi via JetDirect being emulated on an Oki c542 printer.

Yes, yes you can. It all just kind of works without much fuss, except that I had to change the snmp community name for my printer because the old hpux drivers don't seem to like the snmpv2 stuff?

I'm kind of floored this all works.

#retrocomputing #printers #unix

@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?

You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.

Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.

BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear

#Windows2 #Windows3 #outlinefonts #Modern #Roman #Script

Nach 33 Jahren enthüllt die Designerin Virginia Howlett die Wahrheit hinter dem berüchtigten "Hot-Dog-Stand"-#UI-#Design von #Windows3.1, für das das #Microsoft-#Betriebssystem von 1992 bis heute berühmt ist. https://winfuture.de/news,155504.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

I've pushed myself a bit and tossed a rough tutorial on cross-compiling for #Windows3, #WindowsNT, #Windows95, and #MSDOS with #OpenWatcom up on the web zone: https://indigoparadox.zone/tutorials/watcom.html

It's late, so I don't trust my proofreading, but I've been asked about this enough where a quick and dirty tutorial has become a practical consideration. Hopefully it's useful!

Finally got this working last night, but I gave it the wrong deploy key before I went to bed... but I fixed it this morning and so now: automatic beans: https://codeberg.org/indigoparadox/mbean/releases

More platforms and projects to come, but at least I got the basic process working so that's nice.

#Windows3 #maug #RetroDev

When was your last #Terminal session in #Windows3 to transfer a few driver files via xmodem protocol? My successful try is a few minutes ago and now the small and handy #HP #OmniBook #HP600C can speak with the #ZipDrive.
#RetroComputing #MSDOS

Look, it's a #listicle of 💀 software fails from the Jurassic era of desktop publishing. Because nothing says "innovative" like reminiscing about programs that couldn't hack it in a world of Windows 3.1. But hey, at least we can waste pixels on them now! 🖥️🚮
https://tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history/ #softwarefails #nostalgia #desktoppublishing #Windows3.1 #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

I also decided to move Analysis in the page dedicated to my old programs. Analysis was a Windows 3.1 program I wrote between 1998-2002 and that could draw mathematical functions. It was mainly written in Visual Basic 3.0, with a DLL written in C that could parse functions: http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=retroc/oldp/oldp.inc

#retrocomputing #windows3.1 #retrocoding #visualbasic

BRNDNBRG.mid remix

#renoise #music #electronic #trapmusic #bullshit #midi #windows #windows3 #windows3x #midimusic

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.0 - #tech #nostalgia #retro #windows3

How OS/2 flop went on to shape modern #software
#Windows3 beat #OS2 because #IBM insisted that OS/2 ran on #80286, which crippled the new #OS. IBM's determination to serve its customers with 80286 PS/2s, and keep a promise, resulted in OS/2 being a failure. That is what allowed #Microsoft #Windows to gain the upper hand.
Soon after Windows 3.0 turned out to be a hit, OS/2 NT was rebranded as #WindowsNT. Even ardent Linux enthusiasts must concede Windows NT did quite well. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/01/05/microsoft_os2_flop_future/

Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/thirty-years-later-the-windows-3-1-video-driver-you-needed/ #Retrocomputing #windows3.1 #windows #SVGA #vesa

Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed - Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/06/thirty-years-later-the-windows-3-1-video-driver-you-needed/ #retrocomputing #windows3.1 #windows #svga #vesa

#RetroGaming Did you know?

- #WingCommander *didn't* hack a DPMI error when it closed. That's a myth.

- #Myst was written in HyperCard on the Mac, w/ a plugin for big 256-color images. Broderbund created a custom(?) engine to port it to Windows.

- #Undertale has some wonky code, but it still works! Good code is only important if you want your game to run on a 486 (I wish Undertale ran on a 486!)

- #SimCity2000 for #Windows3 had a use-after-free bug that #Windows95 was patched to accommodate.

Now that we saved this 486, let's see what was inside…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdikHOZh7Ws

https://www.twitch.tv/mmu_man

#Live #RetroComputing #Varta #DestroyerOfWorlds #LiveAtFabrico #i486 #MSDOS #Windows3

(had to restart the stream)

Every few years, I like to fire up what we lovingly refer to as "the dinosaur" at our house, and play the unforgiving Ms Dos computer games of my childhood on a mouse that is a marble. Oh the nostalgia of 1992! Also, that this baby still fires up and boots every time, priceless! #retroTech #MsDOS #Windows3 #laptop #oldTech

$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era -  





The Pocket 386, ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2032811 #windows3.1 #windows95 #ms-dos #tech

Hackaday Links: February 11, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/02/11/hackaday-links-february-11-2024/ #augmentedreality #HackadayColumns #PowerHarvesting #AppleVisionPro #Hackadaylinks #earlyadopters #hackadaylinks #Perseverance #hightension #Windows3.11 #Ingenuity #antenna #Slider #ms-dos #drone #radio #theft #tower #uav #ar

Hackaday Links: February 11, 2024 - Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality goggles made a big splash in the news this we... - https://hackaday.com/2024/02/11/hackaday-links-february-11-2024/ #augmentedreality #hackadaycolumns #powerharvesting #applevisionpro #hackadaylinks #earlyadopters #perseverance #hightension #windows3.11 #ingenuity #antenna #slider #ms-dos #drone #radio #theft #tower #uav #ar

#Verpasstodon

Bahnkonzern Siemens sucht Admin für Windows 3.11 for Workgroups

Der Bahnkonzern Siemens sucht in einer Stellenanzeige nach Administratoren für Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Ja, die Bahn setzt es immer noch ein.

https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-sucht-Admin-fuer-Windows-3-11-for-Workgroups-9611543.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Administrator #DeutscheBahn #Stellenanzeige #WTF #Windows3.11forWorkgroups

Quand l'Allemagne cherche un expert MS-DOS et Windows 3 pour son réseau ferroviaire

https://www.generation-nt.com/actualites/allemagne-cherche-expert-ms-dos-windows-3-1-sauver-reseau-ferroviaire-2043955

#MSDOS #Windows3 #Allemagne

[ I treni tedeschi usano MS-DOS e Windows 3.11; il segreto della puntualità? - Tom's Hardware ]
https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/i-treni-tedeschi-usano-ms-dos-e-windows-311-il-segreto-della-puntualita #Treni #Windows3.11