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Which is my my DOS collection has 5,500 games, but once it got online, it was down to 2,000. The causes speed issues in some cases, and in other cases it simply doesn't call the right executable. So he attempted to automate the conf files. This is because he didn't take time to actually talk to me first, and he didn't understand how my conf files worked. But because of the method Jason uses, he breaks a majority of the games when he attempts to make them sompatible with his java script dosbox. Interestingly, Jason took that one and put it online last year. Its compatible with my previous release eXoDOS, which is the same project, but for DOS games. It also includes a front end with box scans, screen shots, game descriptions, manuals, etc.
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If you download my version it is about 350gb, but it is all local. In general, I wanted win3x to exit when the game/app closed. Sometimes this was as basic as just putting a shortcut in the startup folder, but that was a final solution when nothing else worked. I used a few tricks to automate the launching of the game once Win3x started. Each game has the original media (cd image, floppy image, or file dump if it was shareware), mounts it, and then launches Win3x. I created a handful of "templates" that had the most common configurations to save time.
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I built Win3xO by taking individual Windows 3.x installs (running in Dosbox), gutting them of extra crap, and that gets them down to about 25mb, compressed.Then I had to launch into windows and install any versions of Win32, WinG, Quicktime, etc that the game required. I suppose I'm the "volunteer" he mentioned. If you google Win3xO, you'll find the collection he took and based this on. You'll recognize offerings like WinRisk and SkiFree, but the vast majority of the collection sticks to a particularly wild world of Windows shareware history, one in which burgeoning developers seemed to throw everything imaginable against 3.1's GUI wall to see what stuck." Says the article: A volunteer "really did the hard work" of getting the Windows files required for each DOSBOX instance down to 1.8 MB, and in the process came up with a more centralized version of those files on his server's side, as opposed to kinds that would require optimizations for every single emulated app. "Now," Ars Technica reports, "Scott and his crew have done it again with the Windows 3.X Showcase, made up of a whopping 1,523 downloads (and counting), all running in a surprisingly robust, browser-based JavaScript emulation of Windows 3.1.
Jason Scott is the game collector and digital archivist behind the online museum of malware mentioned here a few days ago.
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I've never found a way around this, nor have I found a no-CD crack for either game (and honestly, googling Risk II is a pain in the ass as I usually get the actual board game or tons of just unrelated junk).The Internet Archive has made it possible for you to make a virtual visit to the wide, wide world of Windows 3.1 games (and other apps, too), via a collection of virtualized images.
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The only nut I haven't cracked is I have two specific games-Need for Speed: High Stakes and Risk II-that seem to always know if there's not an actual CD in the drive. though I think that was around the WinXP era).įor a long time one of my personal headaches was if the game had audio music tracks, how do I rip a disc of that AND play it from a digital image AND still have the CD-ROM music? But recently I cracked even that nut. That said even on actual Windows 98, I often rip ISOs (I usually just use old versions of Nero) and mount the discs with, say, an old version of Daemontools (you might prefer something else though-do research, as ONE, only older DTools will work on Win98 anyway and TWO, at some point the program started incorporating adware. Best $50 I ever spent.You've joined a mighty happy family, son!