In what can only be called "totally frakking awesome", someone installed Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95. By using DOSBox, Polish developer Marcin-PRV was able to install the ageing operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side.
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You find that .. cool? Beer & sex are cool. This is useless and will just cause the chicks to roll their eyes at you.
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I don't think the point the writer was trying to make with this post was 'look you cool this is to grab chicks with!'
I mean it's hardly like your going to see a girl at a bar, walk over and say, 'Hey honey, I've got windows 3.1 working on my phone. Sexy or what?'. This isn't for flashing around (other than to equally geeky friends), it's just a little something to make *ones self* smile.
I'm sure everyone can infer(spelling terrible today, sorry) the rest of my point.
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I mean it's hardly like your going to see a girl at a bar, walk over and say, 'Hey honey, I've got windows 3.1 working on my phone. Sexy or what?'
Actually... I'd be interested in a heartbeat to see that in action 
Would be damn cool pick-up line Not that I get picked up at bars, though, I ain't from the prettiest mold.. 
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Mind the audience here, Nita. You're a geek girl - you're rarer than a crash on a VMS system. And you're Finish. Then again, I'm not so sure you'd have any use for any of the guys in here
. Before anyone spazzes out: I'm JOKING.
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No, this is beyond cool. This is awesome. You have to look at it in perspective. 15-20 years ago we barely had enough power to run Windows 3.1 on our desktops and now we can run it in an emulated environment on a portable device.
It really makes you think how far technology has progressed.
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> 15-20 years ago we barely had enough power to
> run Windows 3.1 on our desktops and now we can run
> it in an emulated environment on a portable device.
...15 years ago I was running OS/2 on my desktop and multitasking several applications at the same time. So no, we didn't "barely" have enough power to run Windows 3.1 on our desktops back then.
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Well, just because OS/2 could run well on a 286*X doesn't mean Windows 3.1 could do so. OS/2 could probably run on half the hardware and do twice as much :-)
I kinda miss OS/2.. but I found BeOS and haven't looked back except in nostalgia! Then again, I still get those old nostalgic feelings when running Windows 7.. oh wait... maybe that is nausea?
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> run Windows 3.1 on our desktops and now we can run
> it in an emulated environment on a portable device.
...15 years ago I was running OS/2 on my desktop and multitasking several applications at the same time. So no, we didn't "barely" have enough power to run Windows 3.1 on our desktops back then.
15 years ago I installed OS/2 on my desktop and it was too slow to use, so had to revert back to Windows 3.1
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This is great and all for the show-off value, but I'm more interested in the fact that you can get DOSBox on the N95. That opens up a whole world of retro gaming possibilities (better than all the demo shite on N-Gage for my money) if it works well.
Anyone know where to find this? There's no mention of it on the DOSBox site.
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Download DOSBox for S60 here.
http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthread.php?t=334841
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The DOSbox forum thread can be found here: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=20708
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Why are the frames/phone borders in each photo different? Some are "gold" in color and some are "silver".
Why the photos that are showing off the actual Windows 3.1 itself are zoomed in so much to the extent that we are unable to see the phone itself?
Why isn't there a video footage of this? I am not saying this is fake but if you look closely and consider what is being presented, on the photos that are showing off the actual Windows 3.1, the phone itself cannot be seen.
We are only looking at the screen itself? The photos that are showing off Windows 3.1 are all the gold ones, the ones where the phone itself is not visible and only the screen is.
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I find it kinda funny that people here marvel on wondruous projects aiming to run stripped down unusable version of Linux on several machines are fantastic and a great advance and everything, but someone running windows on those same machines is just meh.
Bias ftw.
I think this is cool, porting OSes to strange platforms always is, even if there are clearly little point in doing so 
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Most times these Linuxes turn out to be quite usable. There are many very interesting projects out there bringing new features to small/obscure devices based on Linux. "I see a command line" is only the initial step.
Whereas it is quite hard to find any use in Windows 3.1. today; and it is not even a pleasure to look at it.
Still I wouldn't say anything negative about this "achievement".
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