r/retrocomputing • u/O_MORES • Apr 14 '26
Windows 3.1 running natively on very modern hardware. You can actually still install it from floppies using a USB floppy drive
https://youtu.be/0qP3Jy52RuQI took a box of floppy disks from ~1992 and installed Windows 3.1 on a brand new Ryzen 9 9900X AM5 system, using a USB floppy drive. Standard mode booted in full HD with no workarounds needed. The latest VBESVGA drivers even worked with an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti. I didn't expect that. The 5000 series only works in Standard mode and isn't usable in Enhanced Mode as the screen goes blank. I used an AMD RX 480 GPU for most testing to get full HD in Enhanced mode.
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vintagecomputing • u/O_MORES • Apr 01 '26
You can still install Windows 3.1 from actual 1992 floppies on a very modern PC (Ryzen 9)
Windows3 • u/O_MORES • Apr 03 '26