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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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)
To-do builds[edit | edit source]
Supported format[edit | edit source]
Windows 3.1 build 103 RC (1992-03-02)
Windows 3.1 build 103 RC (1992-03-10)
Unsupported format[edit | edit source]
Windows 1.0 In*a*Vision 1.01 runtime build
Configurations[edit | edit source]
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)
Fun Facts[edit | edit source]
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.