#WINDOWS 3.1 EMULATOR MAC INSTALL#

Just getting the display resolution up to 1024Г—768 (and still with only 256 colors) required patching the original video drivers with ones designed for VMWare. Of course, Windows 3.1 was not designed for modern hardware and no proper drivers exist for much of it. Especially given the fact most firmware replacements only fill a fraction of the X200вЂ™s 8 MB chip. Once the somewhat finicky software and hardware environment was up and running, it seemed a waste not to utilize it further.

#WINDOWS 3.1 EMULATOR MAC INSTALL#

The adventure starts when helped a friend install libreboot and coreboot on a stack of old ThinkPads by using the Raspberry Pi as an SPI flasher, a pastime weвЂ™re no strangers to ourselves. It would take a little fiddling, plus the small matter of convincing the BIOS to see the EEPROM as a virtual floppy drive, but clearly those are all minor inconveniences for anyone mad enough to boot their hardware into a nearly 30 year old copy of Visual Basic for a laugh. A hacker by the name of thought that MicrosoftвЂ™s latest and greatest circa 1992 might do well crammed into the free space remaining on a ThinkPad X200вЂ™s firmware EEPROM. After all, SkiFree sure ainвЂ™t gonna play itself. But if youвЂ™re one of the people who looks back on these days fondly, you might wonder why we donвЂ™t see this tiny graphical operating system smashed into modern hardware. This was a simpler time, with smaller hard drives, lower resolution displays, and no hacker blogs for you to leave pessimistic comments on. It might be difficult for modern audiences to believe, but at one point Microsoft Windows fit on floppy disks.

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