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What an interesting question, I've done that before, mostly out of nostalgia. And, of course, frustration with the upgrade treadmill.
There's essentially nothing you can't do with a 16-bit windows, it's what people worked with and played with, so there's a bit of everything .

You should install Win32s, WinG, Video for Windows, Trumpet Winsock.

Honestly I'm surprised you found it hard to track down old software, there's a pretty huge scene around it.
You can get pretty much every OS and application here: http://winworldpc.com/library_m1.shtml
This is also a great site to get old software: http://www.oldversion.com/
Moar: http://wiki.oldos.org/Downloads/Windows3x
http://gaby.de/win3x/esoft.htm

There are some surprisingly modern browsers available for 3.1, grab Opera 3.62 (also Netscape 4 and IE 5.5), and try Calmira for a Win9x type of GUI running under 3.1 - put the default XP wallpaper on that, and you will fool a lot of people :)
I once hacked XP to natively run the NT 3.51 shell on startup, instead of Windows Explorer. It wasn't hard.

DOSBox sucks for Windows, though, you should probably just run a VM, added performance. You can find some Windows games on abandonware sites, Civilization 2 was a good one :)
http://www.gameswin.biz/gameen.php?id=379

Let me know if you need anything else, would love to have a chat with a fellow enthusiast.

http://www.oldos.org/oshistory/msbob.php

http://oldos.org/oshistory/os2v1.php

Check out OLDOS! :)

Get your old PC up again @ http://oldos.org/ :)

Some of us LIKE playing with pre-pentium machines ;)

Yes -- same thing happened here.

I've gotten two dmcas. First one went to my shared hosting provider, who cut off my http, on a friday around 5pm, and it had to stay off until I could contact them monday.

Second time, I just got an email from my vps provider, linode.com, passing it along, and saying "handle it". I actually put up a forum thread on their site praising them for it.

If any of you want a good provider, go with Linode. The staff is great, service is great... no real negatives to it.

In case you were wondering, here is a link to the first DMCA notice I recieved: http://www.oldos.org/history/oms/letter.htm. Of course, that was two years ago. We're back up, and legal at http://www.oldos.org/.

Yes -- same thing happened here.

I've gotten two dmcas. First one went to my shared hosting provider, who cut off my http, on a friday around 5pm, and it had to stay off until I could contact them monday.

Second time, I just got an email from my vps provider, linode.com, passing it along, and saying "handle it". I actually put up a forum thread on their site praising them for it.

If any of you want a good provider, go with Linode. The staff is great, service is great... no real negatives to it.

In case you were wondering, here is a link to the first DMCA notice I recieved: http://www.oldos.org/history/oms/letter.htm. Of course, that was two years ago. We're back up, and legal at http://www.oldos.org/.

I understand the need to hsve integrity in what is reported. Any person trying to stifle a collection of facts (which is what HardOCP had/has), should be strung up like a traitor.

Now, if there was libel or untruth involved, I'm the first to say they need to be punished... but... don't try to hide your own faults by beating up on a website. Nobody likes a sore loser (or vaporware company).

[cheapplug]For some journalistic goodness, go to oldos.org [oldos.org][/cheapplug] yxh

Windows NT 3.1, released in 1993 to match the current version of the other Windows line, had 3 service packs. I think this is the first time it was used, although there may have been some for Microsoft Lan Manager. And I think the updates for 95 were called OSRs.

FYI, when the MS ftp server is up you can still get SP3 for NT3.1 from them, or you can get it here

Get that and more at

http://www.oldos.org/files/win95dl.php

(as has already been posted earlier)

...When we've already done it for you!

http://www.oldos.org/files/win95dl.php

A friendly message from the admin of the best old computing site around ;)

(obligitory )

http://forum.oldos.org/viewtopic.php?t=2318

Apparently someone he knew saw them on the shelf and called him, he bought it, the registration wouldn't work, and he got that email.

Yet another reason to hate activation.

• 57.67% IE (IE + AOL browser)
• 31.35% Gecko (Moz, FF, FB, Netscape)
• 4.87% Opera
• 3.25% KHTML (Safari + Konq)
• 1.10% Other

• 57.67% IE (IE + AOL browser)
• 31.35% Gecko (Moz, FF, FB, Netscape)
• 4.87% Opera
• 3.25% KHTML (Safari + Konq)
• 1.10% Other

I hear all these posts saying "why do you not care about 56k users, webmasters, boo hoo"... well, the bottom line is, it's a lose/lose situation.

I run the site www.oldos.org, and I moved to a layout which loads probably about 4 times faster than the old layout, just to get fussed by a ton of people saying they hate it.

Make up your mind! Do you want fast or dancing babies?

THAT is awesome. Post how to do that on my forum :)

DOS is still alive as a great platform for limited uses.

If you need some utilities to go along with freeDOS, try my site, Old Os or if you have problems setting it up try our forums.

DOS is still alive as a great platform for limited uses.

If you need some utilities to go along with freeDOS, try my site, Old Os or if you have problems setting it up try our forums.

It's possible, given size considerations, etc, that we could offer hosting through my site, OldOs.org.

(We are hosted by X-Gravity Web Hosting who graciously provides us with beer-free hosting). Contact me at jason l f at g mail dot com (remove spaces, convert at=@)

Is not a new thing.

Here

Go to Windows 32 bit Downloads....

Or even worse, Microsoft Linux pre-1.0...

Any site that has its own theme song has to be good.... uh.

yes, you're right, even Microsoft MacOS

Don't forget about Old OS. Also an interesting site!

Includes the tragedy that is Microsoft BOB!

I understand the need to hsve integrity in what is reported. Any person trying to stifle a collection of facts (which is what HardOCP had/has), should be strung up like a traitor.

Now, if there was libel or untruth involved, I'm the first to say they need to be punished... but... don't try to hide your own faults by beating up on a website. Nobody likes a sore loser (or vaporware company).

[cheapplug]For some journalistic goodness, go to oldos.org[/cheapplug]

Realplayer G2 w/RealJukebox.

Great design. I loved it... then it started happening *cue sad music*... The upgrades... they said "RealONE" was the thing... but all it did was take away my ability to listen to crap online for free.

Free Carolina Hurricanes webcast? Gone. $29.95 a month.

Free Carolina Panthers webcast? Gone. Buy NFL Field Pass.

Free racing webcasts? Gone.

Now, I don't mind ads. Heck, I run a website, I live on ads [cheap plug]go to oldos.org and clickyclicky on my google text ads [/cheap plug]. I wouldn't mind listening to ads during the game, watching cheap flash ads before listening, or anything like this. How come TV can survive without needed subscriptions (skin-e-max and h-blow excluded), but internet webcasts can't?