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Did you know that early beta versions of Windows 95 had somewhat of a Windows 3.1 "emulator" built-in?
Well, not exactly an emulator, but a handful of files, that allowed Windows 3.1 to run inside a Windows 95 DOS Box.
Nah, not MS-DOS mode, but side-by-side with Windows 95!
Getting it to work on a beta version was easy, but doing so for the final Windows 95 release, lest to say Windows 98, needed some patching.
And yet, there are questions around the whole thing: Why did Microsoft built that feature in the first place? Why was it dropped from the final release?
And once more, will it run on Windows Me?
00:00 Intro
00:55 Some historical context
02:13 Test (failed) Drive on Windows "Chicago", Build 81
02:45 Test Drive on Windows "Chicago", Build 116
08:05 Windows 95 Beta, Build 328, and the need for patching
11:48 Let's have a look at the Windows 95 final release
12:04 Windows 98 goes as well
12:14 What about Windows Me?
13:31 Using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 instead
13:52 Conventient Install Package
14:20 Conclusion
Links:
Additional Reading about Windows:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...
winworldpc.com/product/window...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95
Articles about the Windows 3.1 Compat Mode of Win95/Chicago:
blog.krnl386.com/index.php?po...
blog.krnl386.com/index.php?po...
Assembly Code references: ref.x86asm.net/coder32.html
Software Downloads:
Various "Chicago" builds: winworldpc.com/product/window...
"Chicago", Build 328: mega.nz/f56e34a8-0f4f-445d-a5...
TPC's install package:
github.com/gpdm/TPC-Win31on9x
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