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I switched from VirtualPC to VirtualBox and I'm recreating from scratch my virtual machines.

I would like my Windows 3.11 in 1024*768 with 24 or 32 bits colors (16 bits colors would be OK too).

So far the best I was able to find is 1024*768 with 256 colors. It's better than the default 16 colors settings but the lowest I'm ready to settle is 65536 colors (16 bits).

Is there a way to get 16 bits+ colors in 1024*768 in Windows 3.11 under Virtualbox?

AlexV
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Through some detective work I have found in the thread Help me with some Windows 3.X based games toward the end a guy that says:

I'm using default settings in DOSBox 0.74, WfW 3.11, S3 Trio 32/64 video driver version 1.70.04, SB16 driver + patch. I chose minimum install for the game, and did not try to install the included QT, installing QT 2.1.2 instead.

BTW, the movies look better with more than 8-bit color depth. The game worked fine with 32-bit color, but 16-bit looked about as good, so 32-bit might be overkill.

The S3 Trio 32/64 video driver is no longer available from the S3 drivers page, but I have managed to find a copy in a Russian university via the FileWatcher website for the Trio64V+ (in the hope that it helps).

However, I think that VirtualBox does not emulate the S3 Trio, so you will need to use VirtualPC for that. This Microsoft blog post says:

A physical S3 Trio 64 does support 24-bit color but we only support 1,2,4,8,16 and 32-bit color modes.

Glorfindel
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harrymc
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Why not switch to KVM (The Linux kernel hypervisor)? One single program that can handle direct gpu pass-through, VESA-enabled vga card, cirrus logic card (windows 3.11 compatible, with 16bit color mode), qxl and vmware svga2 emulated video. It can easily handle multiple cpu types as well, plus all the other usual features you would expect from a hypervisor. You can simply port all your vm's to kvm and be done with it.

Juan Manuel
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