Re: Well, it's about time (HD on Win3)

Windows 3? That clunky operating-system-cum-system-shell from 1990?
Yup. It's back... and now with support for HD resolutions! Because we
all know that's what's been holding back that "OS", right? The lack of
high-resolutions. Well, no longer; there's a new open-source SVGA
driver that will run on Windows 3.1 and allow ultra-high resolution
and color depths!

(Get it here: : https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv !)

Now you can play games on Windows 3.1 at 1920x1080 with millions of
colors, just like you always wanted to! And no, you won't need some
ancient ISA video-card to do it; it will work on (most) modern GPUs!
Isn't it exciting? ;-)

Well, no, of course it's not; not really. Windows 3.1 was a PITA even
back in 1992; it was an extremely fragile layer on top of an extremely
clunky OS, and it was a really poor platform for gaming. Nobody misses
it (sorry to be cruel, Windows 3.1, but it's true). Its lack of higher
resolution support was the least of its issues. But there's something
undefinably neat and intriguing about running such an obsolete system
with wide-screen support. (here's a video showing it off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXkvM3b2Qg). I must admit I'm halfway
tempted to spin up one of my older PCs and install Windows 3.1 on it
just to see how well it would run, just because it does seem such an
obscenity against natur^h^h^h^h^h technology. And I just love how
there's a tiny group of dedicated geeks still working on keeping this
ancient platform alive.

Maybe it's just me.