Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on a modern 2009 Thinkpad T400

Demo of me using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on a relatively modern 2009 Thinkpad T400.

I have added mediocre video support. Sound support is accomplished via a clone of the Covox Speech Thing. Gigabit networking is allowed due to DOS drivers from Intel.

A bonus section including Windows 1.04 is at the end.

[basspig]

I remember doing color prepress design work on Windows 3.11 in late 1992.

[Schule]

If your laptop has a cardbus slot, you could use a PCMCIA sound card

[softdreams]

gosh i cant ever get adio or video drivers for windows 3x on any new cpmuter to work lol

[damian]

I see that you wrote on the blog post “…to equal this feat for Windows XP which support ended in 2014, you have to install XP on a machine to be built 2022. I don’t mind trying to see if that is possible then!” I’m sure you now know what to do

[davel]

The fox is quick. The purpose is to test every letter.

[Rasthro]

How did you install the drivers to get the max resolution that your laptop supports?

[ferrumignis]

I remember using Win 3.1 and Trumpet Winsock back in the day.

[dr.shuppet]

It's not that hard even on current hardware, one can simply install DOS onto a USB drive and switch the BIOS to compatibility mode. One has to be aware of the A20 line backwards compatibility not working on modern CPUs, though - some implementations of HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE don't work because of this. Also I couldn't get MS-DOS to run this way properly (disk access is unstable), so I can only get Windows 3.1 in standard mode.

[AwesomeBlackDude]

any chance I can use this video footage ?

[stereoactivo]

But the question is: Does it run doom?