I assume they wanted to save space on the installation floppies. The reason behind it’s removal is that CGA was already pretty a pretty dated standard by the time WfW 3.11 rolled out. I really wish I could leave it on as art, but I don’t want to burn out the plasma display.īut what about Windows for Workgroups 3.11? Microsoft does not natively, support the Compaq Portable 386’s plasma display in WfW 3.11. Sorry about my unsteady hands… Might have had a beer or two. We can thank Microsoft for offering a native driver to support the gas plasma display for Windows 3.1. Even just getting Windows 3.1 / 3.11 to work to see the awesome screensavers is worth it. ![]() Getting Windows 3.1 / 3.11 working on this machine is worth it even if you only intend to exclusively play MS-DOS games as windows actually looks pretty cool with the orange gas plasma display (at the very least, anyone who has one of these machines should try playing solitaire on the gas plasma display) – the crisp resolution combined with the orange glow makes windows quite a unique experience. Installing MS-DOS on the Compaq Portable 386 is pretty straight forward, but before we get into retro-gaming on it, I thought I’d post a quick intro on installing Windows 3.1 on a Compaq Portable 386.
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