Emulates USB mouses and gamepads in DOS window as well. Good DOS compatibility either by DOS window or rebooting into DOS. Basically a much more refined continuation of Windows 95. Direct hardware calls are not possible.īest all-in-one operating system for DOS and Win9x gaming. Unreal engines, Quake engines).Īny 16 bit related code like DOS programs are run in a Virtual DOS machine (NTVDM). Thus most Glide compatible games work (e.g. Also the most important gaming 3D accelerator cards from 3dfx at this time have Glide support in Windows NT4. The OpenGL support from graphics card drivers for Windows NT4 is solid. Benchmarks show that due to the different driver architecture accelerated 2D graphics is a lot faster compared to Windows 95. Still, DirectX3 allows most 2D games that use DirectDraw to run (e.g. However most DirectX games with accelerated 3D graphics require at least DirectX5. This is usually no problem since drivers for PnP hardware bring their own configuration sheet and for mass storage USB devices third party software is available.įor gaming Direct3D from DirectX3 is supported. Windows NT4 does not support Plug and Play and USB. However it is possible to upgrade to the user interface known from Windows 98 by installing Internet Explorer 4 with Active Desktop. The user interface is the same as in Windows 95 with some additional features from Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. It was released with DirectX2 and got support for DirectX3 with the latest servicepack 6a. Windows NT4 has a higher stability as Windows 95. After boot the whole Windows system uses just about 16 MB RAM.
The system is rather lightweight and requires only a 486DX2-66 and about 32 MB RAM, a Pentium system is recommended. Windows NT4 uses a preemptive multitasking kernel and supports two CPUs and up to 4 GB RAM in the Workstation Professional version. For True Type Font support Adobe Type Manager has to be installed. Later the Multimedia Extension 1.0 upgrade was released including a Soundblaster Pro and CD-ROM drive (Panasonic?). A few programs are included in Windows 3.0 like Program Manager, File Manager, Notepad, Paintbrush, Reversi and Solitaire. However due to the similar implementation of the 386 Protected Mode the maximum useable memory is 16 MB, same as the limit for 286 Protected Mode. Windows 3.0 supports also 286/386 CPUs and can be run in Real Mode, 286 Protected Mode or 386 Protected Mode. The requirements are a 8088/8086 CPU, 386K of RAM, 6-7 MB HDD free space, a CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules/8514/A graphics adapter and MS-DOS 3.1.
Windows 3.0 is a graphical environment that can be run from DOS.
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