From 7be6d5a7c738304fe4a3b15e4ad586f4c8d0aa7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Campbell Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:51:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add more notes --- NOTES/Microsoft Windows 2.10 | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 NOTES/Microsoft Windows 2.10 diff --git a/NOTES/Microsoft Windows 2.10 b/NOTES/Microsoft Windows 2.10 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5d699ca3e --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTES/Microsoft Windows 2.10 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Windows 2.10 can be run from DOSBox's native DOS environment, +but some version number trickery must happen first. + +Windows 2.10 has the same problem as Windows 1.0, you see, +where if you run WIN.COM on MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, the boot +screen appears but then it spews a screenful of garbage and +crashes. This does not happen under MS-DOS 4.0 and earlier. + +To avoid the screenful of garbage, you must type at the +command line before running WIN.COM: + +ver set 3 3 + +This tells DOSBox to report itself as MS-DOS 3.3, which +makes Windows 2.10 happy. +