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Archive for the ‘Windows 3.11’ Category

Sweep the Strait: Minesweeper, but in the Straitt of Hormuz (plus some tests with RawGit alternatives)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/31

Forgot to schedule this one when I saw it two weeks ago: [Wayback/Archive] Sweep the Strait.

Apart from demonstrating that Trump never had a plan, does not and will not have a plan, it is cool to see Minesweeper developed in JavaScript, HTML and CSS mapped with some geodata onto a real map of the Strait of Hormuz.

Cool idea!

It has a function Windows 3.x UI with functional menu (Game -> New Game; Help -> How to Play)

At first, I thought the original developer is this:

However, in fact the developer is:

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Posted in CSS, Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opinions, OS/2, Power User, Retrocomputing, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, Windows, Windows 3.11 | Leave a Comment »

Run Windows 3.1 in True-Colour Full HD: GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/09

This is soooo cool: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1

Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence the VBE in the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.

Related:

It reminds me of other endevours to keep retro-software easy to use: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 3.11, x86 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, the Windows 3.x winfile.exe File Manager still lives on!

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/01

By sheer luck, Jen Gentleman pointed out that winfile.exe still lives on:

The source is at [Wayback/Archive.is] microsoft/winfile: Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements, and it looks exactly like the Windows 3.x through Windows NT 4.0 days.

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Posted in Apri1st, Fun, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 3.11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows NT | Leave a Comment »

em-dosbox – Windows 3.11 on the Web

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/22

Cool: [Archive.is/WayBack] em-dosbox – Windows 3.11 on the Web.

Via [WayBack] JRWR – Forrest F. on Twitter: “I love this thing, http://vrcade.io/win311 Boots into Windows 3.11 with a internet connection (over a fake modem!)”

–jeroen

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Posted in History, Windows, Windows 3.11 | 2 Comments »