Hello

I have just found my old R83 3.5" floppies and have been trying to run
them up in a virtual environment.

I haven't had much luck and was wondering has anybody else tried this
or is it a waste of time?

I have tried using virtualbox and vmware server 2.02 and don't have
much luck

Thanks in advance

Kelvin

On Oct 29, 1:02*pm, "smeg... (AT) gmail (DOT) com" <smeg... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I doubt you will find a virtual platform that emulates an IBM AT or
386 :-)

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Not had time to try this, but I do have windows 3.1 running in virutalbox.

Two things to try that should have a lot:

1) - use a fixed size drive. While dynamic expanding drives are oh so great,
for older systems, they often have trouble formatting to special formats,
so, create a fixed size hard drive.

2) - turn off the hardware virtualizing when you create the virtual machine.
Not all CPU's support hardware virtualizing, but quite much any decent
processor of the last year or so does. Turning this option off does give you
quite a standard looking CPU, and to my knowledge, you can even install does
into that machine when you do this. So, there is a good chance you can get
this to work.

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