Win 3.1x-exclusive gaems

[Anonymous No.8366264]

>spend all evening and night trying to get Windows 3.1 to work properly in dosbox-x
>finally get audio and 32k-color mode working with S3 drivers
>ready to get nostalgia-bukkake'd
>mmm nnngh oh yes canyon.mid, nnnnnggh
>now to find all those old games I used to play!
>suddenly realize ALL the games I played from this pre-Win95 era were MS-DOS games and I only ever went into Windows 3.1 to use Netscape or do homework
So, I have some catching up to do.
What are some games /vr/ recommends that were EXCLUSIVELY available only for Windows 3.1x and never had any ports to any other OSes? Right now the only game I have on my list is Castle Of The Winds, which is supposed to be really good and I'm going to dive into it tomorrow morning.

also why the FUCK is FANFARE.WAV sound effect missing from my Windows 3.11 install?

[Anonymous No.8366281]

>>8366264
The only good game. Also, the best game in Windows history

[Anonymous No.8366312]

>>8366264
The best DOS-ROMs are from Sierra.

[Anonymous No.8366523]

>>8366264
You wasted your time. Just use this. https://www.retro-exo.com/win3x.html

[Anonymous No.8368118]

>>8366264
was Ski Free on 3.1
or that carl cuck puzzle game everyone loves
there incredible machine
lemmings 2
i don't know bro

[Anonymous No.8370160]

One of the better things 4chan has produced has been the DOS and Win 3.1 packs. Here's the 3.1 games pack, including the 2 best Win 3.1 games, Castle of the Wind 1 and 2.

http://www.buffalopeacepeople.org/files/whitlock/bin/Games%20-%20Win31%20Collection/

[Anonymous No.8370276]

>>8370160
That domain's been hijacked by some Chinese shit

[Anonymous No.8370292]

>>8366264
Win9x's 16bit/win3x compatibility was pretty fucking great. Win98's all you need barring some ultra-fringe exceptions for DOS-98.

[Anonymous No.8370301]

>>8366523
>accepting donations for the "project"
Why do fags do this? This is how you end up going to jail for piracy, by making a case you were actually profiting from it.

[Anonymous No.8370305]

>>8366312
>ywn plow a dubiously consenting Cassima on Mordack's dungeon floor

[Anonymous No.8370309]

>>8370301
idk, not my problem when it happens, though. What about archive.org?

[Anonymous No.8370313]

>>8368118
>carl cuck puzzle game
>everyone loves
What game are you talking about? I'm a 37yo boomer and have no idea.

[Anonymous No.8370348]

>>8370309
archive.org has a DMCA exception.
>not my problem when it happens
That's right, but a problem for whoever is taking those donations to pirate old games nobody would otherwise notice or care about. They seem like typical nu-internet zoomers who need to make money from their "work". When you're making any sort of money from copyright infringement you need to take it seriously and not get caught. That's how you get serious lawsuits and criminal charges, not just a letter from your isp.

[Anonymous No.8370403]

Wasn't SimTower for 3.1? That was a pretty comfy game and I remember playing it in some version of windows through dosbox.

[Anonymous No.8370469]

>>8368118
>>8370313
Seriously what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.8370472]

>>8366264
There's literally NTVD that works on Windows 10 64bit that lets you run 16-bit Windows 3.x games, with sound.

[Anonymous No.8370479]

>>8370301
>>8370348
I do something similar, but you can't track it back to me. So if "I" do get caught, I just reroll.

[Anonymous No.8370552]

>>8370313
Probably Chips Challenge

[Anonymous No.8370575]

>>8370552
Ah, that does make sense. Thanks for translating schizo for me.

[Anonymous No.8370582]

>>8370301
Don't underestimate the greediness of fan-made projects. They have no self-control

[Anonymous No.8370689]

>>8370479
Exactly, if you're making money off copyrighted material you need to engage in money laundering. I'm sure most pirates know this, but social media namefags who make stuff like fangames run into trouble.

[Anonymous No.8370703]

>>8370582
>Claim asking for money to work on an unauthorized fan project is different than selling something you don't have the rights to
>Get shut down
>Tell the internet "nintendo bad"
>Repeat

[Anonymous No.8371006]

>>8370276
Shit, sorry bro, that's my bad. I pushed the whole thing back up and stuck it in a dropbox. Here's the Win3.1 Game pack, again, without the BS, ferrlls.... I did NOT make this, just sharing it again.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pad70nbs5r0q39g/Depot%20Win%203.1%20Pack%20v0.5.rar?dl=0

[Anonymous No.8371021]

>>8371006
Friendly reminder that Oldgames made a good dosbox installer, and it works out of box with DosBOX ECE and X, and even supports Soundfonts if you have the mpu drivers.
You can even play shadow of the horned rat better than the win95 release on GOG

[Anonymous No.8371202]

>>8371021
Thanks /vr/o, did not know about this site.

[Anonymous No.8372467]

>>8366281
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.8372476]

>>8366264
>spoiler
It’s TADA.WAV

[Anonymous No.8372490]

>>8370348
Imagine asking for money to be a pirate.
I miss the old days of cracktros that were like bank robbers who would write the name of their gang with bullets on the side of the building.

[Anonymous No.8372794]

>>8366281
Jezzball was the best

[Anonymous No.8373070]

>>8371006
wish i could add stuff i want to the dos pack, also some games look bad with the smooth pixels

[Anonymous No.8373146]

[Anonymous No.8373149]

>>8373146
This is it. These are the two good 3.1 native games that don't run in dos alone.

[Anonymous No.8373280]

>>8372490
I can't imagine not asking for money to be a pirate. I wouldn't have been able to afford nearly as many toys as a kid if I wasn't selling wharez to faggots that couldn't afford a decent modem. I also did many crack screens and intros. But never called anything a "cracktro". Because I was never a faggot.

[Anonymous No.8374978]

>>8372467
I remember this game.

[Anonymous No.8375040]

>>8366264
Ouch!
aw aww awww

[Anonymous No.8375432]

>>8372467
Holy shit this brings back memories. Anyone remember the name?

[Anonymous No.8375459]

>>8375432
Bow&Arrow

[Anonymous No.8377534]

[Anonymous No.8378216]

You can find a lot of these on the archive website

[Anonymous No.8378387]

>>8370472
Default (stock) NTVDM only exists on 32bit versions of Windows 10, but someone (Leecher1337) made a 64bit version of the leaked source code, NTVDMx64

[Anonymous No.8379672]

>>8370472
>>8378387
How well does this handle parallel ports? Dosbox is useless and I literally have a an machine set up just for that shit.

[Anonymous No.8380884]

>>8373149
System interface games are kino

[Anonymous No.8380902]

>>8370403
Check it out Yoot Tower. It's basically a 32 bit upgrade that works with Win 10/7/XP etc.

[Anonymous No.8381378]

>>8379672
there are forks of dosbox that add support for parallel port passthrough (dosbox-x for example)

[Anonymous No.8381625]

>>8381378
I tried some before and they all had problems that made just using a real machine a better option. I'll check out the latest dosbox-x, but mainly just because that looks like it has a lot of features and is maintained. A working NTVDM would be ideal.

[Anonymous No.8381640]

>>8377534
Based Micro Man poster

[Anonymous No.8381664]

No game, I just find this very aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.8381723]

>>8381664
Is that an early Win 95 build? Some of those Frankenstein builds between 3.1 and 95 have been lost to time.

[Anonymous No.8381780]

>>8375432
that gif made me kek loudly
thanks

[Anonymous No.8382901]

>>8381780
You just know he practiced that endlessly, and thought he was cool shit for it.

[Anonymous No.8382945]

>>8381723
Chicago was '95s codename.

[Anonymous No.8382963]

>>8382945
>>8381723
>>8381664
Some of those in-between builds of Windows look awesome as fuck. Whistler aka in-development XP looks sleek as fuck, and so does Longhorn, albeit in a different way.

[Anonymous No.8382987]

>>8382963
Such are the wages of design-by-committee.

[Anonymous No.8384570]

>>8366264
Fallout 2