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Win95 Original on i386!!

SlashSlash
edited April 2005 in Software
I wonder if Win95 runs on i386SX/4Mb RaM/EGA???
Ega drivers are not included in win95 distrib, where to get them? :cool:
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  • Ka0sKa0s
    I ran it on a 486DX2/66MHz with 8MB RAM, and it blue screened ALOT.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    When 95 setup comes up and shows the keyboard/video/etc. change the video to the EGA driver.

    OR use Windows 3.1 with EGA driver then upgrade to 95.
  • RNRN
    Yes it will run. It will be bloody murder though.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    FishNET650 wrote:
    I ran it on a 486DX2/66MHz with 8MB RAM, and it blue screened ALOT.

    LOL, I had it on a 486SX 25MHz with 4M RAM and a 120M Hard Disk and it took like 15 minutes to boot. I may get it out, plug in a PCMCIA NIC and see how slow it is.

    And I think FishNET may just have hardware problems. I run 95 on a 486DX2 66MHz with 40M RAM and its FINE.
  • QQ
    The original 95 is infamously buggly.

    -Q
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    Use 95A or 95B. Those are the 2 best. 95C is just gay.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I had a 386 running Win95b once.

    Specs:
    BioStar baby AT mobo
    AMD 386 at 44MHz
    16MB ram
    200MB HD
    SoundBlaster 16 with Panasonic compatable cd-rom controller
    Revel 2x Panasonic compatable CD-ROM drive
    1.44MB floppy
    1.2MB Floppy
    Trident 8900 VGA with 512KB vram
    3com 10mb nic
    3com 56k winmodem

    A lot of hardware lol.
    Win95 ran just fine on the system. It ran faster then a 486DX2 would.


    The only thing I can think of is to install WFW 3.11 and then use the win95 upgrade. This might make windows 95 use the WFW 3.11 EGA video driver.

    BTW, I smoke Basic Full Flavor cigs.
  • SlashSlash
    Great! I'll try!!
  • BashBash
    I got a 75MHZ Pentium 1 laptop with 8MB ram, and 350MB HDD space. It works! In fact, I turned it into a cash register for my yard sale.
  • MentalMadnessMentalMadness
    I once ran windows 95 on a
    AMD AM386DX40-40mhz
    OPTi 350WB mainboard
    8mb ram
    OPTi 82c930 soundcard, which sucks
    Trident TGVA9000b 512kb ISA
    Maxtor 540mbHDD
    Acer CDR525 2x CDRom drive

    It was slow as hell. It took ages to boot, an it lags all the time.
    I scrapped that 386 after that.
  • RNRN
    I ran 95a on a 486-100mhz, 8mb ram, 1.2gig hdd, 1meg video card, 4x cd-rom drive........................... and it was slow. I think it was mainly the RAM. THere wasn't enough RAM.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    I had 95C on that same PC I listed above, but with 16M RAM and it was like shit. But put 95A on and it ran like fine even with 16M RAM.


    It actually DID have 40M RAM, but had to run the setup program for the BIOS to reconise it.

    bah, tcp, newports are better
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    Win95 calls for 4MB but it's slow slow slow. Even with 8MB it's slow. Better to use 12MB or 16MB of ram.

    Bah, I can't stand Menthol, Most of the time I get Camel Wides or Camel Reds. Thats if I go across town to the HESS Station.
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    95C is like 98. Has the IE4 and everything....not a very good thing -_- LOL
  • RNRN
    YUCK! 95C!!! YUCK!!!
  • IBMWarpsterIBMWarpster
    LOL. Thats what I said.
  • SlashSlash
    95C didn't work on my 386. And 95A worked! Very slow!
  • SlashSlash
    A question: 95 Original and 95A are the same OSes or not?
  • QQ
    NO, they're different.

    -Q
  • RNRN
    They are VERY different. 95 was really buggy.
    95a = better.
  • headbanger013headbanger013
    I once ran Windows 95 B on my 486 @ 25 MHz. first with 4 mb of RAM, later with 20. It became like 4 times faster :|
  • QQ
    5x RAM = 4x faster? sounds good.

    -Q
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    I have installed 95 original on my 20Mhz 386. Yes it did run quite slowly, I had 8 MB of ram though. I downloaded the updates to upgrade it to 95A, but shortly after I got my hands on a 486 and things got beautiful.
  • DevilsJim89DevilsJim89
    I dont think Windows 95 is even worth being install on a 386. Of course things are gonna get beautiful on a 486 with it.
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    I had Win95 on a 486 with 33MHz and 16mb ram and also a diffrent PC that had the same hardware but with 8MB and there was a big diffrents in the speed. Win95 osr 2.1 worked fine on all of my 386s back in the day.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    windows might have worked fine, but no programs... I wanted to use 95 so I could get 32 bit gayols. 3.0 kept loosing the connection because the computer was working too hard to talk to the modem.
  • RNRN
    Heh. I like that phrase. "The computer was working too hard to talk to the modem.".
  • SlashSlash
    I've removed that crappy 95a from my 486. After I installed both Windows 3.11+Calmira and Windows NT 3.51. NT is a bit slow, but much better than 95.
  • DevilsJim89DevilsJim89
    Why did you install both 3.11 and NT 3.51? If it had more then 12MB of RAM, I woulda went with NT 3.51 but if you had only 4MB, then I woulda went with 3.11 and Calmira.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Yeah... NT 3.51 can run all of 3.11's programs right? Now they say calmira is 16 bit only...but I ran it in windows XP... so I am guessing that it would possibly work just fine in NT 3.x
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