![]() ![]() One is by Josh from Ballarat, Australia, who runs the awesome blog Socket 3, full of vintage goodness. I found 2 solid tutorials covering end-to-end instructions for getting Windows 3.1 up and running well on VirtualBox. Good thing FOMO wasn’t a thing back then, eh? Windows 3.1 on VirtualBox Again, if you have no idea what those are, you missed out. This immediately triggered a lot of childhood memories, which were mostly games, to be honest.Įventually, I decided to run my own copy of Windows 3.1 via VirtualBox so I could get access to the original Windows Entertainment Pack games. If you don’t know what SkiFree is, well, too bad, you missed out on hours of fun. He already installed IE3, Netscape Navigator and Opera, but also included fun stuff, like SkiFree. And he gamely lugged the estimated 7kg worth of hardware over to the Hackware meetup (where he talked about his experience getting his pilot’s license, video here) for me to play with! Kheng Meng, being his highly efficient self, had everything up and running within a week, I think. If you’re in Singapore on 22 May, 2019, come see this ridiculous idea live. I’m leaning toward the latter but either way, loads of fun. So this will either be spectacular or fail spectacularly. The additional catch is that I will NOT test on the machine until the day itself. ![]() Harebrained scheme as follows: Kheng Meng to provide the hardware and cover sysadmin responsibilities, while I build a site that loads up and displays well (as well as IE3 can muster), which is progressively enhanced for modern browsers. Why IE3? Because it was the first commercial browser to support CSS. The idea was to run an original version of Windows 3.1 on his IBM ThinkPad 390 and load up Internet Explorer 3. So my good friend and fellow retro-tech enthusiast, Kheng Meng, did me a solid and agreed to my hare-brained scheme for Talk.CSS #39. Welcome to yet another edition of Hui Jing doing things that have no practical use but do it anyway because why the hell not? In local parlance, we call this “shiok sendiri”, you can google that.
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