I simply CANNOT thank you enough for this video. I can't imagine how much pain you would have gone through to put together this video. I am a computer professional myself from the good ol'DOS days, and have attempted to do this/similar things so many times. Only to fail due to lack of resources and/or knowledge. I want to reward you for this. And the highest reward I can offer you is to say - "Thank you. A heart felt, thank you. From the deepest layers of my heart. This video has touched deepest of nerves in my heart, to the extent of making me somewhat emotional. Thank you, once again!!!"

Today's Pointless Trivia (TM): The guy who programmed Solitaire for Windows 3 is married to Isabella Rosselini and is Elettra Rosselini's father. He made Solitaire because he wanted a program to run that would test Win3's ability to select and move graphics (like icons) without the whole screen flickering. Since Win3, unlike Windows and Windows 2, supported many resolutions and color modes, they needed to test each of them quickly. It was more fun to play Solitaire each time than it was to go through a list of clicking, double-clicking, click-dragging, etc. each time. Minesweeper was the same deal, IIRC to test right-click, shift-click, etc.

This is just awesome, thank you so much for bringing my old memories back, the first PC I got had win 3.1 and its great to see it running on Pi, thank you!

I've never seen Win 3.1 running this fast! :D :D

How could anyone ever give this a thumbs down?! From someone who not only sat and stuffed win 311 floppies but also win95, doom, hexen, heretic... Thanks!

Wow Christopher! I always seem to get nostalgic about my younger years growing up with the likes of Win95 and 98, but it really put a smile on my face to hear you reminiscing over Win3.1! Good video, keep them coming!

You sir are the master. I have an undergrad in comp sci and a Masters in IT, and I am very very impressed with you knowledge and content. It's alot of fun to walk down memory lane.

Nostalgia! Felt like I was back in my school days. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Loved your video, and it made me nostalgic! Have couple of laptopts(!!!) running win3.11, maybe it's time for them to see some sunlight again :)

I remember 3.1. Brings back a lot of memories. I'm so old... I remember installing DOS from I think 6 floppy discs and then installing windows 3.1 from 7 discs. It took about an hour to do both.

This brought back forgotten and surprisingly fond memories of running Win31, Turbo C++, and Turbo Vision on my 386 when I was just starting my programming career. Thanks CB!

Brings back some memories. A friend, who has since passed away, and myself had a part time business distributing shareware on floppies. We used Windows for Workgroups, my first experience with networking other than sneaker net, to connect our machines together with coax cable peer to peer being much cheaper

Very nostalgic. Brought me back to computing one had to know to make a computer work. Nice job and keep it up.

Thanks for this tutorial! I installed Windows 3.1 on the Raspberry Pi, I was feeling so nostalgic. :D You are awesome! :) I like your channel so much.

The versatility and adaptability of the Pi ( particularly the new Pi 3) never ceases to amaze me. This is truly a genius of a product ! Thank you very much for your excellent review. /G

How nice is this! I felt a bit old, but sooo happy, thanks Chris form bringing memories, wow!

Only stumbled across your channel recently, great stuff, great range of topics and kutgw

That was really fun to watch. Thank you.

Hit me right in the nostalgia. Good stuff.

Great video! I'm always interested in Pi related things. You're really good at this!

Brings back some good memories

i remember how excited we all used to get when it was time for computer lessons. because we were going to play solitaire. and anyone who won the game before the class was over got extremely ecstatic about it and called everyone to come and see the winning animation. it wasn't windows 3.2 though, it was windows 98. there was another game, i think it was free cell, that no one new how to play and no one ever won except one Asian kid(back then there was no Asian people are genius stereo type). never felt so connected with my peers.

Enjoyed the nostalgia of win 3.1 . Thank you very much.

I was excited and it is my first glimpse of windows3.1 !!!! I grew up using a 8088 computer for games and strait to windows 95 etc!! (I am 27 years old)

I like these videos.. They remind me of 90's and early 2000's shows/magazines about computers..

This hits the nostalgia factor SO HARD

Oh my goodness. This made my day! Maximum nostalgia.

Wow, I can't believe you still have all that old hardware hanging about still. Love your work!!

You are so knowledgeable!! I feel proud just being a subscriber to your channel! :)

Ahhh, gutted, I thought someone had re-compiled Windows 3.1 for the Raspbery Pi Arm. Still, good work all the same.

Great video! The nostalgia brought a tear to my eye! :-)

Thank you for the trip down memory lane :-)

That was the most amazing version of space invaders I have never seen :.) - great video and lots of nostalgia.

Your content is great. You know your stuff, but smile once in a while. Relax and smile once in a while. You remind me of an English teacher we had at school. He always looked so stern and fierce that he was goaded into resignation by us.

Wow! You made me all nostalgic for old Windows 3.1! I forgot about having to run Setup just to change screen resolutions. That was terrible! I really want a Raspberry Pi because it's so like the old garage computing we did back in the early 1990s. Good show!

Excellent... Back when I finally discarded my DOS PC, I saved all the directories to CD ROM. The advantage was that when I discovered DOSBOX, all I had to do was copy the directories to the directory I mounted as my C drive. Windows ran just fine, without having to do any reconfiguration. As an added bonus, I had also saved an installation of Windows 3.0.

That was pretty cool! Thank you for sharing! I will have a Rpi 2 in a few days and I am looking forward to playing around with it and seeing what all it can do

Very exciting! I could hardly contain myself. The dazzling speed! I got to get an Amiga running on a Pi just to demonstrate once and for all that there has been very little advance on PC's since 1985.

This brought back so many memories. LOL. Thx for the video. :)

Cool, never seen windows 3.1 before. This channel better than watching tv in nowadays.

superb, all my memories freshened.

Brilliant! I ran DOSbox only the other day on my PC in order to play Descent. Didn't think about running it on a Pi nor to install Windows 3. Now I have some more things to go do. BTW, just to be very pedantic, Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) was the last version of Windows that ran on DOS. :-) Thanks for the video and do keep on doing what you're doing.

this is beautiful. thank you very much, Sir.

WOW! That was great.. A walk down memory lane.

Worked perfectly first try! Much easier to run Windows 3.1 than it is to run Windows 9X (like I was trying to do for days prior... just one error after the next). Earned another subscriber.

An excellent presentation. I've just started using the Raspberry Pi. Yes I have got Windows on Floppy Disk, so I will attempt what you say.....time permitting...and digging out an old PC.. :)

I can't remember the last time I had such intense goosebumps as when Win 3.1 booted up. Thank you.

This takes me back lol yeah setting up the video card and sound cards with no plug and play was all part of the fun

very very cool!!! brings back a lot of memories!!

Brings back fond memories, including that solitaire bit.

Correction, Windows 3.1.1 (Windows with network) was the last version to be able to be launched manually from DOS. Windows ME was the last version to run on DOS. Windows 95, 98 and ME all ran on DOS as they were all 16 bit versions of Windows like Windows 3.1 and used the same code base, they just changed the interface and automatically launched Windows at startup. Windows NT 3.5.1 was the first 32 bit Windows and was also the first pure Windows that didn't run on top of DOS instead it had its roots in UNIX. My first computer came with DOS 3.2 and Windows 1.0 back in the mid 1980's an IBM AT clone running at a blistering 12 MHz.

I remember windows 3.11 for work groups and I love it. my copy came bundled with ms-dos 6.22. windows was just a shell that ran around dos. if I wanted to mess with windows, all I needed to do was make a backup directory of the windows directory and if I did something that couldn't be fixed I simply deleted the primary windows directory and renamed the backup. you can actually tell dos what version to report to programs. this helped because the mediavision sound cards would only install under a specific version of dos because it was hard coded.

Wow, this is great! Now I can run my favourite dos util/tool XTGold and Reflex database and more. And of course Win 3.11. This brings good times back. Thinking about a 2nd Pi 2.. Thanks 4 sharing

Great! :D Another big step for the Pi :)

brill, very nostalgic

This was wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

Now that took me back. Although 3.1 was the last Windows OS to need DOS (6.22) you could still load it first up to & including 98se (The best OS of all time), which I always did, you could cure so much more from DOS 6.22. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Very well explained, brilliant!

Great video, brings lots of fun memories. I still have copies of win3.5 and dos7. I can't use them anywhere though. I still have some games that ran on those systems but can't get them to run on my new system. Nice video.

Haha this was very entertaining to watch! I would like more!

thank you much . loved the details . i have wanted to build a super computer of sorts since child hood and a big part of that was a way to run multiple os s from a single machine . i think makeing my own custom case on a new motherboard with 2 or 3 raspberry pis incorperated into the build is the cheapest solution. great video.

I remember it all! Man was I good with these dos commands! Fast as lightning! Forgot most of it by now though! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My first PC which ran Windows 3.1 was somewhat larger than a Raspberry PI. Cost a little more too!

Man I remember those days. Workers comp sent me to college over 93-95, and I took all the computer courses I could. Needless to say, we had Win 3'1 when I began, and had just 3 computers set up with 95 when I was in my last year. We also had two computers running OS2Warp, and during our intro to UNIX we all were able to SH into a UNIX system to play around. Overall it was a very nice intro to what was to come. I still have a copy of OS2Warp 4 somewhere, and a demo of the last iteration of OS2 on a live CD in a case also somewhere in my house of computers. Really OS2 was a very good OS, if only it had caught on, I think it could have gone far. Linux is still my overall favorite OS, last winter while we were living in our motor home down in Arizona, a couple thousand miles from our house in South Dakota, my laptops hard drive gave up the ghost. I had an extra along for just that purpose, but forgot my windows 7 disk. I had Windows 8 but MS had, in their paranoia blacklisted my number, so I simply installed the Linux disk I had along for a backup, and went all winter with no MS. Really it was a joy to leave MS behind, yet for some stupid reason when we returned to SD, the first thing I did was install another HD and install Windows 7. I have been regretting doing that ever since, and I am about ready to go back to my favorite Linux Mint.

watching this in 2021 just makes it seem even more old fashioned.

old but gold ;) nice video

I am amazed! This sure brings back memories, I used to love writing batch .bat programs for some degree of automation.

Awesome idea! This shows again the versatility of the Raspberry Pi. As a suggestion, you can use the '-y' apt-get option in order to confirm the queries at the time you enter the comand and not prompt it after :)

How nostalgic ; -)

That intro music is catchy, I like it. ;)

I love your videos!

Love it! Great job.

That wordperfect demonstration was very interesting, as a guy who grew up in the 90's (my first word processor was word 97), worperfect looks complicated but very nice from that time.

This video is the definition of modern nostalgia.

Brilliant. Thank you :)

I get so nostalgic :) Christoph

Amazing! Thanks for the great video tutorial. I don't think I'd ever need Windows 3.1.

What I find amazing is the dates on some of the install files, March 1992!

Talking about DOSBOX was wonderful. I still have some old DOS programs that I would love to run again and I miss GWBASIC. Great video and helpful too.

My first computer was Win 3.1 it was old, bulky, creamish and was slow as hell with a very heavy CRT monitor and a mechanical keyboard and stiff mouse and made such a racket when typing and using anything that involved a CD. This brings back lots of memories :)

Very nice video !

My goodness, such memories.

HOLY CRAP P!!!! THANK YOU MAN... I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A TUTORIAL LIKE THIS FOR WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS

Your are really good keep up the good work

Very nice. This is still relevant because people are asking how to run Windows on the rpi... This may be the most functional solution

ExplainingComputers how did you manage to record the Raspberry Pi video output?

Cool! I remember when Windows 3.1 was the queen of the ball, when 95 came out, we thought we had a wonderful old OS! I may try and set this up on my Beaglebone Black if I can find c copy of 3.1. I know I have several copies back at home but they do me little good here in the middle of the Mohave desert in Arizona.

Thank you for this video! I think it's amazing you had a clean copy of Windows 3.1 lying around. I hope someone creates a free archive of these older OS for people to access. I still have a lot of play on a Windows 95 machine I use at Uni in my physics research lab. Great stuff back then.

I am on them since '95... still installed win31 and ms-dos up to 6.22 I think it was of the floppies... i remember always having to hit repair to recover the damaged sectors on them so I can achieve the long process of installing 3.1... brilliant stuff to remember... Norton Commander file manager... Duke Nukem, Heretic and all that fun... will try them on the RPi on DOSBox in my spare time :)

This is pretty cool! I remember doing the same thing on my PSP, but it ran very slow and the screen resolution wasn't right at all.

This is sooooo cool!!

i would love to see some videos on your older hardware and computers! looks like you have some very interesting pieces of history!

Wow, cool video!

Nice video !

Excelente! Me lembrou meu primeiro computador! Até logo!

Well Done, entertaining

I used to use that card flying thing as test when I over clocked my sx33 to a sx66!

Just found your channel and subscribed immediately. I really appreciate your enthusiasm and clear instruction. Are you an educator by any chance? Also I continued using File Manager all thoughout Windows 95 and maybe into Windows 98 as well. I just couldn't get used to Windows Explorer.

I'm 20 but still old enough to appreciate the cards bouncing :D good ol' 98 did it too!

great video!! thank you for sharing!!

Very Impressive. I love how these tiny computers are re-creating our heritage. We may be all for multicore and gigabytes.. But they must all have come from somewhere - and that knowledge is all the more impressive. Recently I relearned the steps of my youth by making a PiDP8/i This will be my next one :) :)