i could've done both on the same HDD but the quantum bigfoot is awesome and i wanted that 9gb. anyways i installed a boot manager to the first hard drive

-because i genuinely do not know

Is it just a matter of booting with the different hard drive or is it something more complex?

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:37 am well its a dual boot. the first 4.3gb seagate HDD has dos 6.22 and windows 3.11, and the second 8.9gb quantum bigfoot has windows 98

That's cool, i didn't know you could dualboot systems like that.

but otherwise you are still limited to 16mb of ram i think

well its a dual boot. the first 4.3gb seagate HDD has dos 6.22 and windows 3.11, and the second 8.9gb quantum bigfoot has windows 98

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:35 am it also has 64mb of ram but idk how windows 3.1 memory management works so i can only run like 1 or 2 programs before it runs out of memory

well in 286 protected mode you can access up to 16mb of ram and on 386 and onwards you can use virtual memory (paging on a hard drive)

or hell maybe a lite distro of 98 could do

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:35 am i guess my windows 3.1 experience is a bit different than everyone else cause i run windows 3.1 on a pentium 166

yeah a bit too fast for 3.1, windows 95 would probably be a better fit

probably doesnt help that i have a bunch of windows addons and plugins installed on there

it also has 64mb of ram but idk how windows 3.1 memory management works so i can only run like 1 or 2 programs before it runs out of memory

altough i also wanted to install some beta windows 95 builds and see if they would work on CGA

i guess my windows 3.1 experience is a bit different than everyone else cause i run windows 3.1 on a pentium 166

i- i- i didn't use 86box then right now i only used it for windows 95 when i made that 640x200 post

UserPenalties wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:34 am

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:33 am what system was that on

v i r t u a l b o x 6 . 0

oh thats cool

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:33 am what system was that on

v i r t u a l b o x 6 . 0

how appropriate

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:27 am "8088 do windows 3.0" "386 do windows 95" "ancient video card in new system"

there is some video on youtube titled "windows 3.0 on an 8088". It was quite interesting and covered how usable it was on an 8088. I liked that video very much. Actually that is the 86box channel.

what system was that on

there were times in 3.1 the music stuttered (repeated one note) when i played some midi files

ok when i get home im gonna look up some midi software and try to recreate it

instead of just increasing the time interval of the rate at which it plays the music

dvd3000 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:30 am cause its not just like "mp3 slowed down" its literally played slower

yeah i get you, like it gets stuck on one note for longer

i know nothing about midis so idk how to recreate it other than 86box on slow pc