MSDN MS-DOS Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 WFW 3.11 Multi-Lingual

Dowload here:
https://archive.org/details/16-bit
Think this would be an aid for the non-English WinWorld users, so I made a tiny effort. Readme follows.
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MSDN MS-DOS Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 WFW 3.11 Multi-Lingual
Pub: Microsoft Corporation
Date: September 26, 1997

This ISO is made from a CD-ROM released to MSDN subscribers.

ISO information:
Source:
https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Platform_Archive_16-bit_January_1998
https://archive.org/download/MSDN_Platform_Archive_16-bit_January_1998/MSDN_Platform_Archive_16-bit_January_1998.iso
https://archive.org/details/@sketch_the_cow

ISO was imaged with a tool (unknown) that pads out with extra 00 bytes. So, mounted and re-imaged with WinImage 10.0, eliminating padding.
ISO header info shows it was produced by Microsoft Corporation using "CDIMAGE 2.32 (09/25/96 TM)", with newest directory date of September 26, 1997. A search with a hex editor in "all the usual places" turns up no graffiti from other 3rd party ISO tools, so that's a good thing.

Inner Ring(this is important when identifying Microsoft produced CD-ROMs): X03-54192
Face Label: Part number X03-54207

Name: 16-BIT.ISO
Size: 547078144 bytes (521 MiB)
CRC32: FFFFFFFF
CRC64: ED97A3B538B30C6D
SHA1: a1d08f8f019b9a68910dfeb5158593aebc008ff0
SHA256: 11beec3016eece885cdf07a3d0e2ca9288158fdb6c6be1b7519f22708e405e9c


Languages:
MS-DOS: Depending on the language version may be 5.0, 6.0, or 6.22. Arabic is 5.0, and
English has both 6.0 and 6.22 upgrade for example.


DOS:
Arabic
Brazilian
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Russian
Chinese-Simp
Spanish
Swedish
English-USA

WIN31:
Arabic
Catalan
Centeur
Czech
Danish
Finnish
FRA-ARA
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Russian

WIN311:
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
English-USA

WFW311:
ENG-ARA
Finnish
France
French
FRN-ARA
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
English-USA

Comments

  • edited June 2023
    Just a note on re-imaging. Several times now, I've downloaded Microsoft ISOs (or MDS/BIN) that originated from 'that other site" and their hash values didn't match other, known good ISOs that came directly from Microsoft. Once mounted, and imaged with WinImage, the results ALWAYS match, so this is how I proceed nowadays. This holds true whether the CD was mastered with CDIMAGE or BUZZSAW).Hey, if its good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for me.

    I do not know if this holds true with game ISOs, just OS and applications.(shrugs)
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