Geek Posted November 7, 2010 Posted November 7, 2010 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/install-and-run-windows-3.1-on-the-iphone.jpg" alt="install and run windows 3.1 on the iphone" title="install and run windows 3.1 on the iphone" width="357" height="233" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9567" /></p> <p>Want to run Windows 3.1 on your iPhone? I sure don’t, but hey just the fact that you can pull it off is neat right? <span id="more-9566"></span> With a jailbroken iPhone, some patience, and an immense desire to punish your iPhone, you can actually manage to run Windows 3.1 on the iPhone, and apparently it runs well (as well as Windows 3.1 can run, I imagine). Yes, this means Minesweeper and Notepad.exe in all of their lack of retro glory, running on your nice new iOS device.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Installing Windows 3.1 on a jailbroken iPhone</h2> <p>First things first: Grab the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/12/greenpo1son-download/">greenpois0n</a> or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/10/limera1n-download/">limera1n download</a> to jailbreak your iPhone if you haven’t already. You’ll then have to find your own copy of Windows 3.1 (maybe from your local BBS via a 9600 baud modem?) to use in the installation.</p> <p>Now for the walkthrough, it’s repeated here in an easier to follow list format, but was originally posted as a block of text to <a href="http://blog.pikimal.com/geek/2010/11/03/guide-installing-windows-3-1-on-your-iphone/">Pikimal, head over there</a> if you want to have a look at the source text (nothing has been changed other than list formatting):</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>First off, add the Cydia source: http://www.litchie.net/cydia to your list of sources, under the “Manage” tab within Cydia. Then locate and install DosPad Beta (1.92 is the latest). </li> <li>Next, you’ll need to copy the Windows installation files over to your iPhone, and place them in a folder named “winsetup” on /var/mobile/. (We recommend using WinSCP, but make sure you have OpenSSH installed on your device.)</li> <li>Create an additional folder named “w31” on /var/mobile/, which is where Windows will be installed.</li> <li> Now you’re ready for the fun stuff.</li> <li>Open up DosPad and type “mount –u c”, which will unmount your C drive. </li> <li>Then type “mount c ~/w31”, which mounts your C drive to that empty folder we created earlier.</li> <li> Do that again, this time for the A drive, by typing “mount a ~/winsetup”. This mounts all of those loose installation files in the winsetup folder to the A drive, as if you had the installation disks inserted into your virtual floppy drive.</li> <li> Type “a:” to change the directory to the A drive.</li> <li> Then type “setup”, and your installation of Windows 3.1 should begin!</li> <li>Run through the installation, which takes about 15 minutes. When finished, you’ll be asked to reboot your machine. Simple exit DosPad and clear it from your Multitask bar.</li> <li> Relaunch it, and type “mount –u c”, “mount c ~/w31”, “c:” and “cd WINDOWS”. </li> <li>Finally, type a simple and victorious “win” and hit enter. Welcome to Windows 3.1.</li> </blockquote> <p>This might be the single worst idea to ever come to the iPhone, which is probably why it’s so fun. I honestly can not think of worse operating system than Windows 3.1, everything about it was awkward, clunky, confusing, and generally pretty miserable to work with. That’s pretty much the opposite of iOS.</p> <p>Me? I’ll stick with iOS. If I was going to run an alternate OS though, I’d probably opt to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/27/android-on-the-iphone/">install Android on the iPhone</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YjQdT3hUqMM96Nsm-_bHCuSegDM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YjQdT3hUqMM96Nsm-_bHCuSegDM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YjQdT3hUqMM96Nsm-_bHCuSegDM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/YjQdT3hUqMM96Nsm-_bHCuSegDM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=Zg6BbU0g64Y:CvyA2YyiU50:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/Zg6BbU0g64Y" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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