Sharing Windows 3.x? Yes, with my OS/2 WARP & MS-DOS 6 multi-boot setup (Colani Restoration Pt. 3)
We ran an OS/2 WARP 3.0 and MS-DOS 6.22 multi-boot setup back in the days.
Having reacquired the very same VOBIS HIGHSCREEN Colani Tower we had back in 1993, I'm also recreating said multi-boot setup on this machine.
But there's some pitfalls, as in what's a suitable disk partition scheme, and how to conserve disk space, i.e. by sharing Windows (for Workgroups) 3.11 between MS-DOS and OS/2 without installing it twice, and preventing obscure but nagging errors along the way?
And how does it work with the Windows graphics drivers anyway?
Plus, I had to dig deep into the OS/2 graphics drivers, fixing missing files that prevented a successfull drivers install and thus causing system crashes.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Partition Setup
01:45 Setting up MS-DOS
02:59 FDISK revisited - Additional Partitions
03:12 Installing Windows for Workgroups 3.11
04:04 MS-DOS Memory Optimizations
05:51 Windows' Graphic Drivers
06:19 Installing OS/2 WARP 3.0
06:45 Sharing Windows between DOS & OS/2
08:35 OS/2 Apps
08:45 A small OS/2 UI Tweak
09:45 The troublesome OS/2 graphics drivers
13:05 Conclusion
Links:
"My" SPEA/V7 Drivers on archive.org (fixes included):
https://archive.org/details/spea_v7_v...
Quantum Bigfoot Drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...
Information about OS/2's SVGA:
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.p...
OS/2 on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
Windows 3.x on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...
MS-DOS on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
Historic Fact on SPEA & V7 company history not mentioned in the video:
Video Seven (V7) was bought by german graphics specialist SPEA in 1993, which was then sold off to Diamond Multimedia in 1995.
Diamond merged with S3 in 1993, becoming SONICblue.
While SONICblue filed for chapter 11 in 2003, the graphics business was sold off to VIA Technologies, which again sold it off to HTC in 2011.
SPEA on Wikipedia (german only):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spea_So...
Diamond Multimedia on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
S3 on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Grap...
SonicBlue on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SONICbl...
Via Technologies on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Tec...
HTC on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC
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