Windows 3.1 gets installed on Nokia's N810, looks badly out of place
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 17th 2008 6:41PM
posted Jul 17th 2008 6:41PM
[Via PDAToday, thanks Bill]
Please note: If you're a current Engadget commenter, you do not need to re-register. Simply login and you will be prompted to select a username.
Classic! I remember having to create PIFs. Gonna have to put this on the Touch Pro when it comes in.....
Yeah, now it will play DOOM.
Doom never played in Windows 3.1 you moran. It ran in DOS. :P
Ah, but if you did your PIF file correctly, then it would run in Windows.
Note to Alexander: if you call someone a moron, make sure you spell it properly. It just doesn't have much impact otherwise.
Alexander, you obviously know very little about Windows 3.xx.
You are amazing. I wish I could contribute such thoughtful posts.
3.1 how I miss you! Brings back memories.
The only place I see you anymore is on Windows Installer...
It's what I played with from I was 7 to 12, when we got one of those fancy PIII's running Win98.
Aah, I sort of miss it! I just know it's the sort of nostalgia where you have good memories that have absolutely nothing to do with how it actually was.
I'll add it to the list of reasons to get an internet-tablet...far down the list, but on it nonetheless!
These are tears... tears from seeing such a beautiful device get desecrated by antiquated software.
Dont worry you ll be notify when you can dual boot Leopard and Vista from it.
Next time try counting before you fail.
Give me some bacon asshole, I'm hungry.
If it runs fast enough, you could install Photoshop 3 on that puppy and have a decent, portable image editing studio in your pocket. Bonus points if you can actually get 3D Studio R4 up and running on the thing...
Hey, it looks like they've upgraded Ubuntu!
I wish this will come on the iPhone too. Really miss a proper painting app (and people will stop complaining about missing cut-and-paste)
No; but if I had an iPhone, I would. Because then I wouldn't be able to cut-and-paste my criticism, to wit:
Did they add cut and paste yet?
(BTW, this N800 does have it. :P to his Jobsness...)
13th!! - who's the man???
not u.
You da man now, dawg.
MS Paint 3.1.... I drew a complete stadium with adds, crowds, and shaded green on this baby when I was 10.
Why isn't there an Android Photoshop-eque program in the works?
Werd. Paint on 3.1 was magnificent to behold.
Yeah and I nailed it. My computer teacher saw me once fiddle around with it and draw the shaded pitch grass... he was standing behind me saying: "uh...How did u do that?"
I remember when I was in grade school I re-colored a picture of Mr. Burns so his skin was red, like a devil. Fill didn't work because there were a few different shades, I did almost the entire thing pixel-by-pixel.
God I was a fucking loser.
@Ninja
I hope you meant to say
"Give me some bacon, asshole, I'm hungry."
Otherwise, those poor sodomized pigs!!!
i'm not sure i'd want to eat bacon asshole; that's like double un-kosher!
ha.. chuckles beat me to it. thanks, Weblogs Inc. for your shitty, intermittent-comment hiding!
I'd install it just to play Reversi, and maybe Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.
Nothing but Chip's Challenge for me....
I wonder if it'll run Falcon 3.0!
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(computer_game)
We got chip's challenge ported a long time ago, so we run that native...
Still, great old game!
But how will he browse the internet without Mosaic?
Retro redundancy ftw
I think im gonna through up:(
don't worry... just keep working on that gag reflex
Windows 3.1 was my first "real" introduction to computers, not counting some earlier computers like Apple II and the early Macs, which I just thought of as toys, so I'm quite nostalgic about it.
That said, I don't think I would ever put myself through using it again. Windows 95 was hugely liberating from the ridiculous confines of Windows 3.1, it just isn't worth revisiting.
Does look like WM 6.1 tough
Phail.
The N810 comes with WM 6.1 Pro. There is no WM 6.1 Tough.
Except... Not.
@the dude
No... the N810 uses some kind of Nokia OS... Plus to be running WM6.1 pro you need to have to have a "phone" aerial... It would be WM6.1 Classic
What the hell? "Some kind of Nokia OS"??
Linux, you moron.
That's not out of place, that is a thing of exceptional beauty. All they need now is the hot dog stand theme.
Oh man... it makes me want to play that downhill skiing game. You know the one: where the Yeti eats you after a certain amount of time. Classic!
SKIFREE!!!!
man that takes me back. still remember when people were making "lose.bat" files because they didn't want to run "win".
Why is it that the old USENET adage about feeding trolls comes to mind.
grade is when he dropped out of school apparently
@The Dude
Nokia tablets do not come with Win mobile 6.1 pro, the OS is MAEMO.
BTW I do agree with you that it those not come with Win Mobile 6.1 though,.... lol
Windows 3.1 best os ever, no stupid task bar with a start button
Windows 95: The OS that taught us to click start to stop.
Win3.1 wasn't an OS, just a desktop environment.
yeah, you had to have an editor just to edit your shortcuts (PIF editor)...
...sorry, but I can't get nostalgic over that. At least I recognize that screen shot unlike some of these myspace birthed twirps.
You seem to be confusing Windows 3.1 with NT 3.5?
LAST (well almost)
but my sentence will ne short :
M$ WINDWS IS THE SHITIEST OS OVER !
that's a huge amount of fail packed into one comment. congrats
M$ WINDWS? what operating system is that? I may ve to agree with you on that version you re using, it is indeed the THE SHITIEST OS OVER. LOL
@papafew
While you ranting about how shitty m$ is, bill gates laughing his ass off all the way to the bank. Hell, i don't think u even able to achieve 0.001% of what he has. Dumb ass!!
LOL, looks so nostalgic! I'm getting this on my N810..... waiting... can't find my Windows 3.1 licence anymore...
I have SO many. Want me to mail you one? I've got like 80 of them.
I had forgotten how that ugly "DOS PROMPT" icon had become almost a part of myself.
(I love it, but let's be honest guys: it is ugly)
If anybody has got a link with a nice big one please post it ; I want to use it as my avatar and maybe to print it on t-shirts too.
Here: http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/8264/msdosiconqq1.png
LOL!!! Should have doublechecked that comment!!! XD
The n8x0 runs Linux.
But can it play 'Ultima VII'?
I don't know what this says for Nokia tablet when there are HTC people who have Windows 95 and even 98se installed.
Sorry kiddies, for those don't remember the days of the command line interface of DOS...
How many *nix users today could imaging living without a GUI?
Imagine your favorite distro without KDE, Gnome, Xfe, or anything "prettier" than X.
Imagine setting up each and every program individually to print, make sounds, work with (gasp) a mouse!
Imagine C being "The" programming language...
You Are All Noobs.
+1 bravo!
Most nubs these days don't even know work with DOS command lines...pathetic and sad.
could I assume that it could run DOS too?
I still have a copy of Street Fighter II, of which i managed to use keyboard for sho-ryu-ken and super combos.
Ninja, it's OK, I still liked it.
(Did I use the correct number of commas?)
Let me know when they get Vista up and running on a Nokia N95. Then I'll admit the Nokia N95 is almost as good as the iPhone 3G. Since I know it'll never happen, I can relax.
Anyway, the guy that did this hack deserves a tip of the hat. Looks cool.
Have I accidently web clicked myself back into 1994?
THIRTY-SECOND!
@phanbouy,
I agree with you there man, even old enemies like us can come together and acknowledge that comment hiding spawns double-posts and ridiculous after-the-fact "FIRST" posts all over the place. It's mind-numbingly painful.
Why is getting comments working somewhat reasonably so hard? Can we please just set a 10-minute ban after a story goes live for all posts containing the word "FIRST?"
Honestly...
This is nostalgic, funny, and stupid as hell.
What is Windows 3.1?
Is that what's coming after 2007?
Nostalgia? Owww.... this is something from the past.
WOWWWWW i remember Windows 3.1 i used to think i was so damn cool to actually watch the vids on the encarta encyclopedia on it.....how the times have changed
I actually installed DOS + windows 3.1 on an old thinkpad the other day to hook up to a C64 and act as an emulated floppy drive with 64HDD[64hdd.com]. I was using 98 earlier, but you had to quit out to the DOS prompt for 64hdd to work right. Also, 3.1 boots in 17 seconds (after POST).
But if you want a truly old-school GUI, check out GEOS[wikipedia.org] on the C64. It's amazing what you could do on 64K of RAM back in the day. And Geopaint kicks MS Paint's ass.
I used the hell out of DOS 6.22 / Win 3.11 until like 2000. I had a Toshiba T1850 laptop with a 9.5" VGA grayscale screen, a 386SX 25MHz CPU that could throttle back to 12.5MHz and a whole 12MB of RAM. It was slow, but that machine was amazing for what it did.
So much RAM the hard drive would just shut off until I needed to save a file, no energy-hog CPU toasting my nuts and a Nickel-fucking-Cadmium battery pack (eight Sub-C cells) at 9.6VDC and 2800mAh. Runtime? Ten hours!
I miss that kind of time. LOL
I soldered a TI 486SLC CPU into that machine and used it until I got bored one day, took it apart and forgot to put it back together for two years. When I finally did, it didn't work.
I bought another, though. It's still a 386, but I'm upgrading it with a Nickel Metal-Hydride battery and charging system. Twice the capacity. This will be a lot of fun, for sure. Not that I'll ever use it for anything. This is proof-of-concept.
Uhh, this is really old news. And its running Win 3.1 on a emulator on top of Linux. And yes, it is possible to run Windows 95 and 98 on the Nokia as well, just like how you can run it on the PSP and Windows Moible. Its not really something new. (oddly enough, iPhone is missing on this list)