The continuing saga of Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode on OmniBook 300

[Dave Britten]

(08-05-2017 07:15 PM)matthiaspaul Wrote:  Which version of DESQview, and are you using QEMM or EMM386 as memory manager?

Did you try the DR-DOS multitasker already?

Greetings,

Matthias

I believe I tried DESQview 2.8, with both QEMM 8 and EMM386. QEMM was another pain, as Optimize usually ended up with awful and/or non-working configs. I also couldn't get it to put EMS in the UMA. Normally you'd put it at C000-CFFF on the OB300, but my attempts to do so were met with crashes on bootup. Couldn't find any good reference of command line arguments to try customizing it properly.

Haven't experimented with DR-DOS yet. MS-DOS 6.20 is the easiest to get installed without a floppy drive, since you can just FORMAT /S a new card, and copy over the DOS directory from 6.20 installed in a VM.

I'm sure the answer is "horribly", but has anybody seen how Win 95 runs on a 386 OmniBook with 8 MB RAM?