Is there a way to use Windows 3.11 in Virtual box with more than 256 colors?

Solution 1:

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.