Release a Fortnight 19th September 2008

Post by **Andy** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:11 pm

Welcome to this weeks release a fortnight release!!! Few minutes wait but it should be worth it for this little treat we have for you!!!

Microsoft Windows 1.0 (Developer Release) - 321KB
Microsoft Windows 1.0 (Alpha) - 529KB
Microsoft Windows 1.0 (Beta) - 371KB

All of these files are now available for download on the BA FTP Servers! Enjoy!!!

Post by **Namronia** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:12 pm

Hey, the 1.x releases are really intresting, ive already upped some screenshots
on my website if somebody is intrested:

http://os-history.de/betas/1xbeta.html

the toastytech screens are on another build, sadly... but whatever, the DR5 has
the graph.exe and the chart.exe anywaysnd they work (demo only so no
enterable information as it seems), but i think everybody here will love it

anyways

also visit http://microsoftwindowscollectionbook.com/, i think he will offer
some good things about that in some days

Post by **hounsell** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:17 pm

It wasn't that long ago we didn't even have the RTM, and now we have 3 Pre-release builds

Post by **fzajac** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:20 pm

I must really say thanks to everyone who contributed in this RaF
Great stuff, great stuff

Post by **Xammer** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:46 pm

OMG OMG OMG!!!

1. Finally, a non-Whistler RAF.
2. Finally, some builds for which RAW/RAF's were created in the first place.
3. Finally, Win 1.x pre-releases. (+the Premiere Edition which was leaked previously).

THX

Post by **mdogg** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:04 pm

Prerelease Windows 1.0 is not what I expected at all. Brilliant

Post by **betamaster** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:30 pm

1.0 any test version is good to see. Thank you.

Post by **Bender** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:39 pm

Stupid question, but will this work in VPC2007?

Post by **Thlump** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:45 pm

It might work in Virtual PC, but it won't work if you use MS-DOS 7.1.

Post by **lucas93** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:06 am

WOW! This is uhh... ...unexpected!

Post by **Daniel** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:15 am

Bender wrote:Stupid question, but will this work in VPC2007?

Nope, it wont work in VPC07. Over the last days i tied like a billion emulators to get it working,
the BETA runs best on Bochs and the ALPHA and the DR5 run only on PCem (you have to emulate
a IBM machine for that).

Since you have to configure PCem and have to get
some ROM files for it, here are some pre-installed versions of the 2 alphas: link

Just extract everything and open the PCem.exe

How to start the DR5: type path C:\windows\bin then go to C:\windows\test and run mswin

How to start the alpha: go to C:\windows\test and run win

Post by **WeirdEars** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:12 am

Wow! Windows 1.0 betas?! This is amazing! Just to think that we didn't even have Windows 1.00 last year (I think)...

Post by **hjort** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:35 pm

Wow. That`s awesome! Never thought that i was going to see any Windows 1.0 pre-release builds

Post by **Gillian** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:41 pm

Thanks for sharing

Post by **Bigern1990** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:02 am

I was totally expecting another Whistler release...I was really not looking forward to another Whistler release as well. However, this was totally unexpected, and is pretty cool

Post by **lisiuwah** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:43 am

SO nice release...... wt wonders me more is where do u find it

Post by **Tootles** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:19 pm

Shame it (Devel#5) won't work in VPC, it would have been nice if it could. Do we know why? Is there not anything that can be fixed?

And, do we know if it would work on real hardware?

Post by **Namronia** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:33 pm

marktuson wrote:Shame it (Devel#5) won't work in VPC, it would have been nice if it could. Do we know why? Is there not anything that can be fixed?

And, do we know if it would work on real hardware?

it works in PCem.

thanks to daniel for finding that emulator.

Post by **Daniel** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:23 pm

marktuson wrote:Shame it (Devel#5) won't work in VPC, it would have been nice if it could. Do we know why? Is there not anything that can be fixed?

And, do we know if it would work on real hardware?

Just take a look at the post I made above

http://www.betaarchive.co.uk/forum/view ... 9501#59501

Post by **Jeff** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:27 pm

Daniel wrote:
Bender wrote:Stupid question, but will this work in VPC2007?
Nope, it wont work in VPC07. Over the last days i tied like a billion emulators to get it working,
the BETA runs best on Bochs and the ALPHA and the DR5 run only on PCem (you have to emulate
a IBM machine for that).

Since you have to configure PCem and have to get
some ROM files for it, here are some pre-installed versions of the 2 alphas: link

Just extract everything and open the PCem.exe

How to start the DR5: type path C:\windows\bin then go to C:\windows\test and run mswin

How to start the alpha: go to C:\windows\test and run win

It says that it's missing OpenAL32.dll... what should I do?

Post by **Daniel** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:41 pm

Install the OpenAL libraries

Post by **Rob Jansen** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:14 pm

If you download my installers from my website.

It install the following (each one)

- Windows DR5 or Alpha (depends wich you download)
- The PCem program including source and roms
- OpenAL32.dll fix

CAUTION! When uninstalling, its removes ALL THREE items (including the OpenAL32.dll), so if you installed both, and remove only 1 then you need to manually reinstall the OpenAL32.dll with the Openinstaller package from the creative website, or reinstall my application.

Post by **Tootles** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:40 am

How do we know it won't work on VPC?

Have we tried it with MS-DOS 2.x on it, or tried it on real hardware? What exactly is it that it requires that VPC doesn't have?

EDIT: I set up a DOS 2.11 VHD under VPC, and now the only problem is the mouse driver.

Post by **Kenneth** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:06 am

How do we know it won't work on VPC?

Have we tried it with MS-DOS 2.x on it, or tried it on real hardware? What exactly is it that it requires that VPC doesn't have?

Windows DR5 and Alpha will only work if you have a MouseSystems Serial Mouse, and VPC only supports PS/2 Mice.

Post by **Thlump** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:21 am

Windows 1.0 Beta won't work in VPC, I set up a MS-DOS 5.0 VHD, and when the beta was installing there was a screen that said "Setup is setting up Windows" Or something like that. At that screen I think nothing happened.