Demo versions of Windows 3 and Excel 3?

[tristanleboss]

The cover of a Frech magazine caught my eyes recently.



Indeed, it says there was 3 floppies with evaluation versions of both Windows 3 and Excel 3 included with the magazine.

I looked in the FTP but found no trace of them (in both "(Abandonware) Operating Systems\PC\Microsoft Windows 3.0" and "(Misc) Evaluations". Do they really exist?

[louisw3]

Yes they did.. they were the "test drive" versions.


https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index. ... Test_Drive

Google around for test drive and you'll find it for sure. It was prolific at the time, I did include solitaire!

[tristanleboss]

Thanks. I searched and found an English demo made for PC World.

No traces of the French version though. I will try to find the disks from this magazine...

[TuneableSumo876]

You could get the English Windows 3.0 test drive from WinWorld, but their site is down (with no chance of returning, see winworldpc.net for info). I have the disk images, if you want them, PM me.


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[cdnmlh]

I had no idea this existed. I'll have to mess with this later. Pretty cool, despite probably being a bit useless.