Trying To Install MS Windows version 1.0 into Virtual PC
Hi all. I was looking for something for my friend today on the program called Direct Connect (for more information on that see my other thread) and I found the *RARE* Microsoft Windows version 1.0!!
The only thing is I'm having trouble installing it as I have no working floppy drive here on my iBook. It comes on 5 floppy disks. I've tried to burn all of its files to a CD but that didn't work. I've tried to set it as a shared folder but that didn't work. How can I make the folders that contain the Win 1.0 files into a bootable floppy disc image? Eveytime I uncapture the DOS boot disk that came with VPC it tries to read from it and it's not there to be read from. I've tried using Apple's Disk Copy and then a resource editor to change its file type. Virtual PC sees that but it doesn't know what to do with it
Can anyone help me with this? I really dislike Windows but I'm curious to see how primitive Version 1 was.
Thanks in advance,
Proud iBook Owner
PS If you want a copy of it I'd be glad to send it to you. The compressed RAR file is EXACTLY 1 Megabyte and is perfectly e-mail-able.
[ 08-07-2002: Message edited by: Proud iBook Owner 2k2 ]
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The only thing is I'm having trouble installing it as I have no working floppy drive here on my iBook. It comes on 5 floppy disks. I've tried to burn all of its files to a CD but that didn't work. I've tried to set it as a shared folder but that didn't work. How can I make the folders that contain the Win 1.0 files into a bootable floppy disc image? Eveytime I uncapture the DOS boot disk that came with VPC it tries to read from it and it's not there to be read from. I've tried using Apple's Disk Copy and then a resource editor to change its file type. Virtual PC sees that but it doesn't know what to do with it
Can anyone help me with this? I really dislike Windows but I'm curious to see how primitive Version 1 was.
Thanks in advance,
Proud iBook Owner
PS If you want a copy of it I'd be glad to send it to you. The compressed RAR file is EXACTLY 1 Megabyte and is perfectly e-mail-able.
[ 08-07-2002: Message edited by: Proud iBook Owner 2k2 ]
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Just make open Disk Copy and make a new blank image, set the size to whatever is appropriate and the format to MS-DOS. Name it appropriately then click OK when you are done, and drag all the files from whatever folder you used the name from on the CD to the disk. Close the disk and unmount it, this should save it and make it read-only.
<a href="http://toastytech.com/guis/"; target="_blank">http://toastytech.com/guis/</a>;
<strong>Hi all. I was looking for something for my friend today on the program called Direct Connect (for more information on that see my other thread) and I found the *RARE* Microsoft Windows version 1.0!!
The only thing is I'm having trouble installing it as I have no working floppy drive here on my iBook. It comes on 5 floppy disks. I've tried to burn all of its files to a CD but that didn't work. I've tried to set it as a shared folder but that didn't work. How can I make the folders that contain the Win 1.0 files into a bootable floppy disc image? Eveytime I uncapture the DOS boot disk that came with VPC it tries to read from it and it's not there to be read from. I've tried using Apple's Disk Copy and then a resource editor to change its file type. Virtual PC sees that but it doesn't know what to do with it
Can anyone help me with this? I really dislike Windows but I'm curious to see how primitive Version 1 was.
Thanks in advance,
Proud iBook Owner
PS If you want a copy of it I'd be glad to send it to you. The compressed RAR file is EXACTLY 1 Megabyte and is perfectly e-mail-able.
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I found that floating around DC a few months ago too, but I didn't do anything with it. Try making a disk image of those folders and mounting them. That might work.
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Not .dmg, Wintel crap has no idea what the hell that extension even means. Let alone knows how to read it.
Chant with me now, when you convert the image, set the format to MS-DOS.
MS-DOS, MS-DOS, MS-DOS...
[ 08-08-2002: Message edited by: Spart ]</p>
rupert at stimuli.ca
press apple-D when in Virtual PC to open the disk assistant. The second option on the box that appears will allow you to create a new floppy disk image that VPC WILL be able to read.
Just a thought!
Blueflame
BEN
<strong>For some screens of Win 1.0 and many other OSes .. including OpenStep goto:
<a href="http://toastytech.com/guis/"; target="_blank">http://toastytech.com/guis/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;
haha... that screen cap of windows3.1 running a program called "Schedule+" looks just like OfficeXP running Outlook... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<a href="http://toastytech.com/guis/win311scplus.gif"; target="_blank">http://toastytech.com/guis/win311scplus.gif</a>;
Blueflame
PS - E-mail me a copy and I'll muck around with them to see if I can get this working, then I'll tell you what I did; all this guesswork doesn't seem to be helping too much.
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