{"id":6442,"date":"2022-04-05T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2024-09-21T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T19:30:58","slug":"running-windows-1-0-and-old-versions-of-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6442","title":{"rendered":"Running Windows 1.01 and old versions of DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I learned to program back on an old TRS-80 Model III<\/a> computer as a kid. Long before Windows and even DOS, most home computers required you type in programs or load them from cassette tapes. If you were really rich, you might afford a floppy drive, but that was an expensive luxury I never had. My next computer was an IBM XT, and it ran the advanced and stalwart DOS 3.30 – which was dramatically better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running those old operating systems today requires you either buy one of those old systems and keep it running, or you have to emulate them. You can easily emulate DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.0 and higher on VMWare or Virtualbox, but going earlier than doesn’t seem to be supported anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter 86Box<\/a> – an emulator that lets you emulate REALLY old machines. In fact, I was able to get Dos 3.2 running Windows 1.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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