r/dosbox • u/MeanMrBiter • 5d ago

Windows 3.1 Help

Hey everyone! I have followed all instructions, downloaded and redownloaded files, moved them around and everything but I cannot get Windows 3.1 to work on DosBox Pure.

I can boot into windows but can get it to just run as a shell. What am I missing. Can anyone just link to instructions you know works?

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u/emxd_llc 5d ago

Well, you didn't give much specifics into what is not working. But with a guest OS like Windows 3.1, it's easier to use a .conf file rather than the Retroarch GUI to load content, because:

  1. mount points start to become important
  2. you can setup environment variable in the autoexec section, which are usually used by Windows.

i.e. if you have for example a folder structure on your hard drive like this

g:\c311
g:\c311\Windows
g:\c311\Windows\WIN.COM

then you can have and load a .conf file in Retroarch

[autoexec]
mount c g:\c311
c:
PATH C:\WINDOWS;%PATH%
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
WIN

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u/tailslol 4d ago

You don't have load operating system in the menu after loading the game?