Windows 3.11

Got to properly celebrate April Fools after all

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windoze

Today I celebrated pulling a prank on my co-workers by bringing in a USB key with DOSBox running Windows 3.11 running in fullscreen mode, in an attempt to freak out some of my younger co-workers. 😛 I left it plugged in since I do have to head back in tomorrow, but damn… I wish I could be there to see the looks on their faces when they try to find the start menu. 😛

Those of us who did use the older Windows actually had a good laugh at the old After Dark screensavers I had running. Every time we were near the system we’d change it from one to another. Flying Toasters, DOS Shell, Bad Dog, and Rat Race were favorites. Especially Rat Race, we set the rats to be as stupid as possible to make the race last a super long time. Here’s a short video that has all kinds of After Dark screensavers. Quite a few I never even saw before!

I hear you can get 4.0 to run on Windows 7 with a little bit of hacking… might have to look into that.

Felt a little vintage today.

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windoze

Dug out Win 3.11 and did a DOSBox install just for some old nostalgia.

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So far I haven’t run into problems. I copied the install onto my laptop just so I can troll people during my lunch break. :v

I did come up with an idea, to install this onto a thumb drive to take to work. Then plug it into our main Windows 7 Machine and just launch DOSBox in fullscreen mode (with a more tame looking Program Manager and color scheme of course). That would make for a fun April Fools day prank. :v

But so far it’s been fun just poking around in it again for old times sake. I plan to locate some more games for it, ready to record for YouTube if need be. I’ll probably copy this over to Linux DOSBox for my own amusement next… after I reinstall CentOS.