coreboot + Windows 3.1 payload

[John DeGood]

Cute use of coreboot + SeaBIOS virtual floppy to run Windows 3.1 + apps
from flash:

https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/

Reposted by Hackaday:

https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-...

[Nathaniel Roach]

Heh, I did that to put solitaire in my BIOS. Worked pretty well when I 
modified the VBIOS to not stretch the output.

On 11/4/19 6:48 pm, John DeGood wrote:
> Cute use of coreboot + SeaBIOS virtual floppy to run Windows 3.1 + apps
> from flash:
>
> https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/
>
> Reposted by Hackaday:
>
> https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-...
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[Mike Banon]

There are some other floppy-based OS that might be a lot more useful:
for example, KolibriOS has a nice GUI, networking support and IRCC
chat client - so if your ethernet controller is supported, you could
connect to the internet and chat with your friends right from your
BIOS ! Btw there's an encrption IRCC mod, which could give the
end-to-end-encrption chat. + other fun floppies like MichalOS - it has
a built in piano, could quickly launch from your BIOS and play some
melodies ;-)

However, to have more than one floppy, and also the support for more
than 10 menu entries, you'd have to install my two unofficial SeaBIOS
patches for that - https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/32238 .
You could install both patches to your coreboot by executing this
script while at ./coreboot dir: https://pastebin.com/raw/hv9sSuMU

And here is a coreboot image for QEMU with these two patches applied
and my collection of wonderful and useful floppies added to popular
the entries list:
https://github.com/mikebdp2/floparchive/blob/master/coreboot.rom?raw=true
Descriptions of the most prominent floppies could be found here:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Lenovo_G505S_hacking#Useful_floppies
Run this coreboot.rom by executing this QEMU command: (some floppies are 64-bit)

qemu-system-x86_64 -L . -m 768 -localtime -vga vmware \
-net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -soundhw ac97 -bios ./coreboot.rom \
-boot menu=on -serial stdio

Best regards,
Mike Banon

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 6:45 AM Nathaniel Roach via coreboot
 wrote:
> Heh, I did that to put solitaire in my BIOS. Worked pretty well when I
> modified the VBIOS to not stretch the output.
>
> On 11/4/19 6:48 pm, John DeGood wrote:
> > Cute use of coreboot + SeaBIOS virtual floppy to run Windows 3.1 + apps
> > from flash:
> >
> > https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/
> >
> > Reposted by Hackaday:
> >
> > https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-...
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