Vintage Windows

Vintage Windows usually refers to Windows released before Windows 95 (including Chicago in some extents). These include Windows 3.x, Windows 2.x, Windows 1.x and Windows pre 1.00. They can run 16-bit programs only and require an installation of DOS. Hardware support is limited, but many early multimedia titles and the first Windows web browsers run on Windows 3.x.

Hardware support varies but can be emulated in a wide range of software such as DOSBox and PCem/86Box.

Subset of vintage Win32 programs can be run on Windows 3.1x with Win32s.

Windows 95 and 98 includes a minimal distribution of Windows 3.1 packaged in a form of MINI.CAB located on WINDOWS directory.