User:NexineTech2022/Builds

So throughout the months of May and June 2024, I finally figured out how to emulate betas (and other releases that are not on PCjs) of Windows on PCjs!

All times are in EST (my timezone). The dates and times are for when I downloaded the disks, not emulating them. These dates are a difference mainly in Windows 1.0 DR5.

My emulator, PCjs, can only run DOS-based Windows (excluding Windows 9x, but including Windows 95 RTM).

I don't do OEM builds, including Windows 1.xx.

Here are the list of builds I emulated in order:

May 2024

Windows 3.1 build 034f (May 13th, 2024 at 6:26PM)

Windows 3.1 build 026 (May 13th, 2024 at 7:54PM)

Windows 3.1 build 043e (May 14th, 2024 at 4:28PM)

Windows 3.1 build 060 (May 15th, 2024 at 3:37PM)

Windows 3.1 build 061d (May 16th, 2024 at 4:07PM)

Windows 3.1 build 068 (May 17th, 2024 at 8:06PM)

June 2024

Windows 3.0 build 55 (June 11th, 2024 at 8:03PM)

Windows 3.0 build 33 (June 11th, 2024 at 8:34PM)

Windows 2.03 (June 15th, 2024 at 5:25PM)

Windows/386 2.03 (June 15th, 2024 at 5:37PM)

Windows/286 2.1 (June 15th, 2024 at 6:11PM)

Windows/386 2.1 (June 15th, 2024 at 6:22PM)

Windows/286 2.11 (June 15th, 2024 at 7:10PM)

Windows/386 2.11 (June 15th, 2024 at 7:20PM)

Windows 3.0 build 63 (June 15th, 2024 at 8:21PM)

Windows 1.0 Development Release 5 (June 16th, 2024 at 8:01PM, ran on June 19th, 2024)

Windows 1.0 Alpha Release (June 20th, 2024 at 10:37AM)

Windows 1.0 Beta Release (June 20th, 2024 at 10:55AM)

Windows 3.0 build 52 (June 25th, 2024 at 3:11PM)

Windows 3.1 build 071 (June 25th, 2024 at 3:38PM)

July 2024

Windows 3.1 build 057 (July 9th, 2024 at 5:03PM)

To-do builds

Supported format

Windows 3.1 build 103 RC (1992-03-02)

Windows 3.1 build 103 RC (1992-03-10)

Windows 3.0 RC6

Unsupported format

Windows 3.0 build 59

Windows 95 20 July 1992 build

Windows 1.0 In*a*Vision 1.01 runtime build

Configurations

COMPAQ DeskPro 386, 2MB RAM, IBM VGA, 47MB Hard Disk, COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31D (Windows/386 2.xx builds)

IBM PC AT, 4MB Ram, IBM VGA, 20MB Hard Disk, IBM PC-DOS 3.30, ATAPI CD-ROM (Windows/286 2.xx builds, all Windows 3.1 builds, all Windows 3.0 builds)

IBM PC XT, 512KB RAM, IBM CGA, 2 10MB Hard Disks, IBM PC-DOS 2.00 (all Windows 1.0 builds)

IBM PC AT, 1MB RAM, IBM EGA (128KB), 20MB Hard Disk, IBM PC-DOS 3.20 (Windows 3.1 build 057)

Fun Facts

Before I emulated Windows 1.0 Alpha Release on PCjs, I used the emulator in Internet Archive.

I emulated Windows 1.0 DR5 on a system with 2 hard disks, so for fun, I installed Windows 1.0 Premiere Edition on the other hard disk and accidentally found out that Clock from Windows 1.0 Premiere Edition can run on Windows 1.0 DR5.

Windows 3.1 build 071 is the first Windows beta I actually got running in Standard Mode.

On July 3rd and 4th, 2024, I restored PAINT.EXE from Windows 1.0 Alpha Release and installed it with it.

I got a weird bootscreen while running Windows 3.1 build 057.