 Hello and welcome. Today we are going to be playing with Windows 3.1 because why not? It's actually an old game, kind of a game called Spider-Man Cartoon Maker that I used to love to play with back in the 90s. So we're going to get Windows 3.1 up and running and we don't need to do a virtual machine here because if you remember, if you were around back then, Windows 3.1 and 95 and 98 actually ran on top of DOS. So you can actually run those in DOS box because technically Windows 3.1 wasn't considered an operating system. It was an operating environment that ran on top of DOS. So we're going to quickly get it up and running in DOS box and you know what? You can find copies of Windows 3.1 out there and go through the install process, but I've already made an image for you. Once you install Windows 3.1, it's only about 30-35 megabytes. So I just made a zip file. You just unzip that in DOS box into it and you're good to go. So I'll give you a link to that in the description of this video will be all my notes, but I'll show you where to find all the notes as we go through them and you'll see what we're going to do. And that's it. Let's go ahead and jump right in. Here we are at FilmsByChris.com. I wanted to point this out. Move my microphone a little bit. There we go. Let me, I wanted to point this out that if you come in here and you go to software and I've pointed this out before, I have a few different things out. My GitLab page, I got a Scripps page, I got GitLab search so you can search through my GitLab page, but I also have notes. When you click on notes, it brings to this little page I made that actually searches through all my pay spins, which I've been using pay spin and I know it's not the best option. It's just what I've been using. I have this setup so I haven't changed anything else, but I've been using pay spin for over 10 years. So there are thousands of notes in here. If we just type in Win3.1, you can see right here we have quick Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. And this is all we need. We're going to install DOSBox, which I already have installed, but sudo apt install DOSBox. And then we're going to grab our image here. Now I'm going to go over my shell here and I'm in my temp directory. I'm just going to download that zip file. And she'll only take a few moments. Again, I posted this if you look at it. I posted it over two years ago and it's still there. Might disappear someday. But now we're going to unzip that. Then we're going to move into our Windows 3.1 directory. And if we listen here, this is the Windows 3.1 operating system. If I df-h, no, du-h with a space, you can see all together it's 19 megabytes. I said 30 some. I think that's with the Spider-Man cartoon maker. So that's it. We have our autoexec batch file, which is a batch file, which is like a shell script for Windows. They used to run when you started up Windows systems. And so all we have to do is run DOSBox and run that batch file. And when you run a command with DOSBox, it's going to use whatever directory you're in as your home directory. So it's going to see this as your, not your home directory, but your C directory on a Windows machine. So we just DOSBox that autoexec batch, which I had modified to run Sound Blast stuff so that you can have sound and just give it a moment to start here. And once DOSBox has started, it will show us the Windows 3.1 logo. There we go. And we have Windows 3.1 running and come in here and, you know, if you've never used Windows 3.1, it's an interesting experience. I used to love this thing back in the day. It's a pain in the butt now, but we can look at games. We have Minesweeper, we have Solitaire, you know, all the stuff you've come to expect. And we've got accessories here where you can have something like paint, which is awesome. Okay, so now we can close out of this. Now I'm in DOSBox and it's grabbed my mouse to release your mouse in DOSBox so you can get out to your main system. It's Control-F10. Okay, now my mouse is out and I'm just going to quit out of that. Now, going back to my notes here. So you have Windows 3.1 running with Sound. Let me go back to my notes here and I'm just going to type in Spiderman. And we have Spiderman Cartoon Maker, Windows 3.1. This is actually going to download a full copy of Windows 3.1 and the Spiderman thing. So I'm going to make a directory called Spiderman. I'm going to move into that directory. I'm going to download that zip file, unzip it, and run DOSBox. I'm going to copy this and do it all in one command. And yes, this is the one that's 34 megabytes. So about 15 megabytes of this is the Spiderman Cartoon Maker, which you'll see is a fun little application. And what's really neat about it is back then there were really no standards on icons and stuff. So it's like, it's a very confusing program because it doesn't give you words. It's just like a cancel button is a thumbs down and a yes, I think is a thumbs up. And to exit is a guy sleeping. It's just it's very weird and takes a little bit getting used to. But once this 34 megabyte file has downloaded, it's going to unzip. We'll move into that directory and start DOSBox. I'll pause here for a moment just so you, well, we've only got four seconds left according to this. Very long four seconds. I used to love this program back in a while while setting this all up. I found out that because somewhere in this application, it says be sure to try our X men cartoon maker coming out soon. And I looked that up and that does exist. It's actually about a hundred megabytes from what I read online. I haven't played with it yet. Same exact application from the screenshots just with X men animations and backgrounds. But if you have not played with this program before, it's interesting. And I have it set up. So Windows 3.1 loads directly into the Spider-Man cartoon maker. Some fun music. And this is during the era. It's the 90s. So the Spider-Man animated adventures was on TV, which is a great show if you've never experienced that before. It went on for many seasons and it's very well done. And there's even some early 3d graphics in that cartoon. So here you can choose a background. I'll choose this background and I'll click here. And now I can now add something like let's see these icons. You have to kind of click on it to see what's in it. I don't know if they're supposed to be loading. Like if I go this up button is to go back a directory. I don't know if there's supposed to be images here. But we'll click in here. We've got people standing there. Let's go back to the first one. Or where did I see that hydrant or something simple to put into the scene? There we go. We'll put a road construction sign. We can change the size of it over here. And there we go. We add that. Now let's add some characters to our scene. I'll just click one of these. We can have Robbie Robertson. Isn't that his name? We can have him walk in. So you just click and drag. It plays his music and the animation as you drag. I can drag him the other way now. So he's walking around and I'll walk him off the screen. I can come back in here and I can choose somebody else. Maybe there's a villain in here somewhere I can choose. Oh, here's Peter Parker. We'll have him run out. And then we'll have Spider-Man. If I can find a Spider-Man. There we go. So he ran off the sign. Maybe he got changed. Now he's coming out of Spider-Man. Now if you ever stop and you still have the character on there you can always reprint the background over top and any assets you have. If we come here. Now let's look here somewhere there's Spider-Man swinging. Let's get Spider-Man swinging. Here we go. And again we can change the size over here. Maybe he's further back and he'll come swinging in. Now when you're all done you might think oh I'll press this button here which is the camera which will play which actually I think creates a new scene. Again I click it and I get the camera in this. It's like what does this mean? And if I click that I'm pretty sure it just clears out my scene. So I'm going to click the down thumb to say no. You can try I think you're supposed to be able to record audio but I think the way I have audio set up in Windows 3.1 that's not working. I tried that and just made noise but at this point I can press play and it will play the animation I just created. So this is a great tool back in the 90s for kids or even teenagers as I was to make your own cartoons. This was awesome. Anyway so that's getting Windows 3.1 up and running in DOSBox and having a game going in it. And again I said it's auto load that. And again when you're in DOSBox here you're going to want to hit control F10 that will release your cursor. You could also there's there's how do you shut down Windows 3.1. I think maybe we click DOS and then we can click exit type exit. No that brings me back in here. How do you shut down Windows 3.1? Did you just shut you didn't just shut off your machine. I want to say you exited to the DOS prompt and they maybe shut down. No power. Hmm. I don't remember. I do not remember how to start or shut down Windows 3.1 once you're in it. But again you're in DOSBox control F10 and then you know most machines Alt F4 or in my case I have it set up to Windows and Q2 kill that. So anyway just a little thing you might want to run some old software and a lot of software back then still ran in DOS. So you just run it directly in DOSBox. But if you needed that Windows 3.1 check out the links in the description which will bring you to this script here and probably this script here. But you can only search through my notes for something like DOSBox and see my notes on different DOSBox scripts and Windows 3.1 and we have and in the future I'll do a video if you want on compiling C code for Windows 3.1. So if you're interested in how to compile your own C code for Windows 3.1 I can do a tutorial on that. But for now I do thank you for watching again visit filmsbychris.com and in here you can go to the software section to look through my notes and scripts and codes some games for you to play and then also you can think about clicking on support which will bring you to support section where you can buy me a coffee you can donate through Libre Pay you can donate through PayPal and you can also donate through Patreon by becoming a Patreon supporter and getting videos early. 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