Hi everyone,
I've just booted Windows 3.11 on my niki. Sometimes someone could have a problem with running it, so I'll write the instructions.
Make some space on Hard Drive, and Storage Card.
Download the latest DOSBox for PPC from here (ARM build)
Download the latest DOSBox for Desktop PC from here
Get a Windows 3.11 setup files (buy floppies or download form torrents, I'm not responsible from where You'd get it)
Create a "dos" folder on your drive C:
Create a "win311" folder on your drive C:
Create a "dos" folder on your Storage Card
Unpack Desktop DOSBox to your desktop
Unpack Pocket DOSBox to "/Storage Card/DOSBox/"
Put from all Win311 disks, all files into one folder "C:\win311"
Edit dosbox.conf on your desktop using Notepad:
Change [autoexec] with
Code:
mount c C:\dos
mount d C:\win311
D:
Run Desktop DOSBox
type setup
Install Win311
After installation configure it for yourself
Close DOSBox
Copy "C:\dos" folder into "/Storage Card/dos"
Edit Desktop dosbox.conf
Change this:
Code:
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memsize=2
...
[autoexec]
mount c "/Storage Card/dos"
C:
win.com
Replace "/Storage Card/DOSBox/dosbox.conf" with desktop dosbox.conf
You're done! It should work!
How To get the keyboard: Just touch the most left-top corner of the screen (landscape -> this next to call button) and the watermark keyboard should apperar.
How-To make "touch screen 3.11": Move the mouce cursor until the right corner of the screen and then release when it's blocked. Then drag form right side wherever ya want to!
Just One Question.
I must know.
Why?
Why?
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Why What???
Because we can-can-can?
czesioxda said:
Why What???
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Why windows 3.11 when Mac System 7 is so much better?
Honesty, what is the benefit of installing windows 3.11 on a phone, or is it just to show off. if so, to who?
Lets be honest here, half of what we have installed is for show-off.
A quarter of my daily battery is to show my colleagues how cool PPC's are... LOL
twolf said:
Lets be honest here, half of what we have installed is for show-off.
A quarter of my daily battery is to show my colleagues how cool PPC's are... LOL
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very very very nice replay ( you say what we all do )
On MS site there isn't an sdk for xp but only for vista o 7! I found this...download the iso file and burn it on the cd o dvd! Then make this u read in this post!
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201927
http://www.ms-windows.info/Help/wp7-dev-tools-sdk-win-xp-15535.aspx
Anyone confirm this working?
I followed the instructions on the link. However 2 of the files are not able to install because I am missing windows developers tool or visual studio. Thought I was just installing those programms.
Still, anyone succeeded in installing sdk for xp.
yeah i couldnt download the two files either. seemed kind of contradicting.
Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools on XP
1. Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools SDK 7.1 from Microsoft Download Center
2. Extract the downloaded package by running vm_web2.exe /x
3. Go to the folder of the extracted package & open the file baseline.dat in any text editor
4. Look for the ‘gencomp7788’ section and change this two entries from 1 to 0:
* InstallOnLHS=0
* InstallOnWinXP=0
5. Save the file baseline.dat
6. Run setup.exe /web
7. All ok installing :good:
supercommanderz said:
1. Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools SDK 7.1 from Microsoft Download Center
2. Extract the downloaded package by running vm_web2.exe /x
3. Go to the folder of the extracted package & open the file baseline.dat in any text editor
4. Look for the ‘gencomp7788’ section and change this two entries from 1 to 0:
* InstallOnLHS=0
* InstallOnWinXP=0
5. Save the file baseline.dat
6. Run setup.exe /web
7. All ok installing :good:
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I got another error, .NET Framework 4.0 GDR -could not install, and that abort proccess.
I have .NET Framework 4.0 installed, but not GDR version.
Best regards!
I'm trying to get Windows 8 Dev preview installed on an old tablet PC that doesn't meet the minimum specs. I'm not worried about performance as I'm not using the tablet for anything anyway and would just like to see how well it may run on there. It currently runs Windows 7 and is passable with that.
Does anyone know how to skip the minimum hardware requirements check for CPU and RAM so I can try and get this installed?
Thanks!
try this (for windows 7, but may work on 8):
1. Extract the contents of DVD ISO image to hard disk drive
2. Download and install HEX editor AptEdit Pro with HEX Editor plugin
3. Open winsetup.dll using the HEX editor. You can finf winsetup.dll inside the /source/ folder of the copied installation files.
4. Search following HEX string inside the file:
77073D7801
5. Replace the above HEX string with the below one:
E90400000
6. Click on Save to save the changes you have made
7. Run the setup.exe file and the installation should proceed without any RAM limit error messages
You are done.
For user who wants to start installation from bootable DVD instead, replace the winsetup.dll in the ISO with patched version, and then burn the ISO to disc. That’s it. you can follow any of above three ways to bypass 512 MB RAM limit while installing Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 on your system.
no go
It doesn't work for Windows 8. May have worked for 7 but definitely not for 8 (I think)
Will this work for bypass processor check ? i'm with a pentium 4 and i have an error message ... :x
It won't work, even if you can bypass the install CPU-check (hint: use OTG). Win8 will still fail upon boot with an error. I already tried this on an old laptop with OTG.
I need some help with a batch file. I am going to run the batch file on a usb flash drive/thumb stick. What I need it to do is copy three files from the usb flash drive/thumb stick to a directory on a computer. The three files are drivers. A Netgear N150 WNA1100 drivers to be exact. I have been looking around different websites but they have been no help to me.
No help?
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Code:
@xcopy "%~dps0\driver_blah_blah" "dest_drive:\path\"
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Code:
@xcopy "%~dps0\driver_blah_blah" "dest_drive:\path\"
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Actually, xcopy has been depreciated in favor of robocopy.
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Usage :: ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]...] [options]
source :: Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
destination :: Destination Dir (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
file :: File(s) to copy (names/wildcards: default is "*.*").
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: Copy options :
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/S :: copy Subdirectories, but not empty ones.
/E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones.
/LEV:n :: only copy the top n LEVels of the source directory tree.
/Z :: copy files in restartable mode.
/B :: copy files in Backup mode.
/ZB :: use restartable mode; if access denied use Backup mode.
You can get these by opening a command prompt and typing robocopy /?
Robocopy isn't present on all Win boxes. There are still a lot of XP boxes out there. Xcopy isn't as robust, but for copying a few driver files from USB, it doesn't need to be.
I assumed OP is informed enough to know basic copying syntax. His difficulty is with the USB drive letter, which is dynamically assigned by default. The %~dps0 is what he's looking for. Syntax to this is in an unlikely place, for /?.
Speaking of deprecating, *.* wildcard has been out of fashion since the DOS days.
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Robocopy isn't present on all Win boxes. There are still a lot of XP boxes out there. Xcopy isn't as robust, but for copying a few driver files from USB, it doesn't need to be.
I assumed OP is informed enough to know basic copying syntax. His difficulty is with the USB drive letter, which is dynamically assigned by default. The %~dps0 is what he's looking for. Syntax to this is in an unlikely place, for /?.
Speaking of deprecating, *.* wildcard has been out of fashion since the DOS days.
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Oh, well, it is a Windows 8 Forum, so I figured he was asking for this OS. I haven't tried xcopy on my Windows 8 machine, but it still works on Windows 7.
Speaking of color: Personally, I like to change the screen color when performing long copy commands, so that I know how far along the CMD file has progressed.
The OP does not have to worry about the drive letter if he is running the cmd file off of the thumb drive (which is my assumption). all he needs is to provide the name as the source; it will assume the drive letter and current directory. If he is trying to use it from the computer, that could be a problem.
EDIT: Sorry about the color comments. I was picking up the text colors in the quote box! (but I still like to color my screens on long cmd files).
EDIT again: As far as the *.* goes, I was simply pasting the result of the robocopy help command. You'll have to write MS about that one!
thanks e.mote I needed to write the batch file because my dad works for my ISP and he has to install the wireless USB adapter manually due to microsoft saying that any program not on the marketplace is illegal to install or run. I will make his time and install easier.
Edit: The batch file is gonna be used on multiple machines. So drive letters are way out of the question.
Edit 2: It is only gonna be run on windows 8 machines.
nightfire37 said:
thanks e.mote I needed to write the batch file because my dad works for my ISP and he has to install the wireless USB adapter manually due to microsoft saying that any program not on the marketplace is illegal to install or run.
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That is completely false. Windows 8 will allow installation of any software, not just store software. Only windows RT restricts software installs and your drivers on a USB will not function on windows RT due to it being an ARM device and the drivers being for x86. And why use a batch file to copy another file, isnt that what Control-C and Control-V are for
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That is completely false. Windows 8 will allow installation of any software, not just store software. Only windows RT restricts software installs and your drivers on a USB will not function on windows RT due to it being an ARM device and the drivers being for x86. And why use a batch file to copy another file, isnt that what Control-C and Control-V are for
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My dad wanted to me to come up with a solution to make the job easier and so i did and the guys that supposed to be helping the guys in the field that do this kind of stuff arent helping at all and inside the corporation, there are people that can barely know how to open up emails, let alone run an app but they cannot install or look onto the Local Disk because they will get lost and not understand it. i fully understand the differences of RT and the x86 versions of Windows 8. The machines my dad works on are x86 based. I did mess around with it and i was not happy at all with the changes Microsoft has done to it. I will never understand Microsoft's move to make there OS a touch screen based computer when almost every single computer that OEMs sell do not have touch screens. I'm getting off topic but anyways thanks for telling me this guys.
Frankly, if you're just copying a couple of files whose names you know, and they aren't directories and don't need special attributes applied, you may as well just use the old "copy" command. As in,
copy thefile1.sys, thefile2.inf, thefile3.cab C:\thedestfolder\
You can make it a bit more specific if you want to handle things like the case where the file already exists, or the destination folder does not... but the basic form is very simple. For help, you can use
copy /?
but dont you still need to worry about the drive letters?
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copy "%~dp0CHANGEME1.ext" "%~dp0CHANGEME2.ext" "%~dp0CHANGEME3.ext" "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\path\to\folder\on\host\OS\drive\"
This only works from a batch file (It will produce erratic results if ran from a plain command prompt), and you can test what it will send as paramaters by putting an 'echo' before the 'copy'. It will use absolute paths to the files in the same dir as the batch script, in case the working directory is not as expected (such as if it is ran as admin).
Here is the output on my system:
C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\test>test.bat
copy "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\test\CHANGEME1.ext" "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\test\CHANGEME2.ext" "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\test\CHANGEME3.ext" "C:\path\to\folder\on\host\OS\drive\"
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but dont you still need to worry about the drive letters?
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If you put the batch file in the same directory as the drivers, you can simply run it from there, providing only the file name as the first argument, and the target drive (should always be C:\Windows\System32 - or whatever).
copy AAAAAA.dll C:\Windows\System32
copy BBBBBB.dll C:\Windows\System32
copy CCCCCC.dll C:\Windows\System32
xcopy and robocopy are really meant for copying large numbers of files.
EDIT: The former post is correct, using %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32 would always find the system drive, even if it were not the C: drive. But I suspect the vast majority of computers are using C: as the system drive.
stevedebi said:
If you put the batch file in the same directory as the drivers, you can simply run it from there, providing only the file name as the first argument, and the target drive (should always be C:\Windows\System32 - or whatever).
copy AAAAAA.dll C:\Windows\System32
copy BBBBBB.dll C:\Windows\System32
copy CCCCCC.dll C:\Windows\System32
xcopy and robocopy are really meant for copying large numbers of files.
EDIT: The former post is correct, using %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32 would always find the system drive, even if it were not the C: drive. But I suspect the vast majority of computers are using C: as the system drive.
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If you right-click on a .bat and run as admin it will change the current dir to System32, so your method won't work unless the user has UAC disabled/is an admin, or if they do some horrific permissions changes to System32 to allow it to run as a non-admin.
There are other instances where the logged dir isn't the same as the calling script, eg when you drag-drop files onto the script to be processed. Granted it's not the case here, but it's good practice to assume as little as possible for Win shell scripting (which survived mostly untouched from DOS). There are enough quirks in it to already drive you crazy.
Speaking of quirks, I prefer %~dps0 (or simply %~fs0) over %~dp0 because the console buffer can be exceeded in case of really long path names, which results in an error. The 's' switches to the old 8.3 short-name format and obviates this problem. It also avoids the problem of pathnames with UTF-8 characters, which some Win versions can't recognize (I'm not sure about Win7, but Win8 can handle UTF-8 in the console fine). File/pathname is the most common issue in Win shell scripting. Always use double-quotes to enclose them.
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If you right-click on a .bat and run as admin it will change the current dir to System32, so your method won't work unless the user has UAC disabled/is an admin, or if they do some horrific permissions changes to System32 to allow it to run as a non-admin.
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Most of my batch files use full paths, so I would not know. I just opened a cmd window as administrator, and it does go to system32. I never noticed that before.
I think then the best way to run would be to do a search for cmd (from the start menu), run it as administrator, and then change to the drive containing the batch file. From there it would execute.
Or try the other method described above.
thanks guys for this information. its much appreciated.
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PLEASE SEND THIS AS A FEEDBACK TO MS TOGETHER!
Well, it seems I don't have permission to post it to the development thread so I've got to post it here~
I found that on Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones, you could easily access C:\ in File Explorer.
All you have to do is to create a shortcut on your PC which links to C:\ then copy it to your phone.
Just click it in File Explorer on your Phone then you could see the files & folders in C:\, AND IT IS READ-ONLY.
However I failed to access D:\WPSystem using the same way, so I suppose it's just a bug. Don't know whether Microsoft will fix it in the next version.
See the attachments for screenshots.
And something interesting:
Found a folder named "Program Files(x86)", does that mean there will be x64 support for Windows 10?
Hey, Nice Findings, Nice Research !
I Like It
Interesting.
probably no x86 64bit support, as windows Phone runs on arm (until x86 based processors become standard in phones)