Windows 3.x/PC World Test Drive

This is a demonstration version of Microsoft Windows 3.0, that was given away for free with issues of the InfoWorld magazine.

Only a PC World slideshow, a Standard Mode kernel, Program Manager, File Manager, WinHelp, Control Panel and Solitaire is included in the demo. However, it is still possible to run other Windows 3.0 applications by inserting the string "DEMOAPP" into an EXE's application description header.

According to magazine advertisements, there were separate versions for the EGA and VGA graphic adapters as well as 5.25" 1.2MB and 3.5" 1.44MB floppies.

Installation on VGA systems
Only the EGA version has been found thus far. The Setup program in this version gets confused if you try to install it on a machine with VGA. To fix this, edit the   section of  and add the line:

vga = 1:ega.drv, "EGA", "133,96,72",, 1:egalogo.lgo, , , , 1:egalogo.rle