{% extends "layout.html" %} {% block title %}MS-DOS{% endblock %} {% block content %} <h1>MS-DOS & Software</h1> This page contains download links for a very old Microsoft operating system so that it can be preserved -- on this corner of the Internet, anyway -- for anyone who is curious to tinker with the first versions of Windows or who just wants to take a trip down Nostalgia Avenue.<p> The operating systems here are distributed as floppy disk image files (with an .img extension). If you actually have a floppy drive, you'll have to flash these images onto floppy disks. If you just want to use <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a>, it can make use of the floppy image files directly.<p> <img src="/creativity/articles/doswin31_thumb.jpg"> <h2>MS-DOS 6.22</h2> The last version of MS-DOS from the Windows 3.1 era, before Windows 95.<p> ¤ <a href="/download?project=DOS&file=MS-DOS-6.22.zip">Download</a> (.zip, 3.5 MB) <h2>Windows for Workgroups 3.11</h2> The first version of Windows to support TCP/IP networking.<p> <strong>Disk images (*.img files) for use with VirtualBox or flashing to floppy disks:</strong><p> ¤ <a href="/download?project=DOS&file=WfW-3.11.zip">Download</a> (.zip, 10.3 MB)<p> <strong>Unpacked disk images (ZIP file containing all files from all disks in one folder, maybe useful for DOSBox installations):</strong><p> ¤ <a href="/download?project=DOS&file=WfW-3.11-unpacked.zip">Download</a> (.zip, 11 MB) <h2>Hardware Drivers for VirtualBox</h2> These are some hardware drivers for DOS and Windows 3.x that are known to work with VirtualBox's emulated hardware. Drivers include: <ul> <li>CD-ROM driver</li> <li>DOSIDLE to make MS-DOS stop consuming 100% CPU</li> <li>WQGHLT to make Windows 3.x stop consuming 100% CPU</li> <li>SoundBlaster 16 as a CD image (requires the CD-ROM driver)</li> </ul> ¤ <a href="download?project=DOS&file=DOS-Drivers.zip">Download</a> (.zip, 4.0 MB)<p> <h1>Comments</h1> For tips, tricks, or to leave comments, see the relevant blog post "<a href="/blog/kirsle/ms-dos-and-windows-3-1">MS-DOS and Windows 3.1</a>". The comments on that blog post are shared to this page as well (so comments on either page show up in both places).<p> {{ include_page("comment.partial_index", thread="blog-42", subject="MS-DOS", header=False, ) | safe }} {% endblock %}