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Post #309555

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C3PX
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Old Star Wars Games on New Computer Systems (was: Tie Fighter Collectors' CD-ROM Works in DOSBox)
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Date created
8-Feb-2008, 8:51 PM
Originally posted by: SKot

Now that most DOS games can be run successfully under XP with DOSBox, the hardest games to get working at this point are certain ones that were actually written for Windows (95/98)... some of them just won't even install under XP without bombing out. And I'm at a loss for how to fix that


SKot, do you have any old versions of Windows lying around? There is this program called Virtual PC that was once made by a company called Connectix and was quite an expensive program. It was a PC emulator for the PC. You can use it to creat and run emulated PC of various specs. For example, a while back I wanted to play a Windows 95 game that absolutely could not work under WinXP, I searched all over for cracks and patches but came up with nothing. With Virtual PC I was able to emulate a computer running under the perfect specs for this game to run, then I popped in my old Windows 95 CD and installed it onto the emulated computer I had made, and a short while later was playing my game under the exact conditions it was intended to be played under. Wouldn't ya know it, good ol' Microsoft bought the rights to Virtual PC from the company that had originally made it, now it is called, Microsoft Virtual PC and is a free addon for WindowsXP. For once MS did something right, wish they had done it before I spent full price on the original version. As long as you have a legit copy of WindowsXP you can get it for free from Microsoft.com. Just go to their site and type Virtual PC in the search box, or you can google "Microsoft Virtual PC" and probably find a direct link to Microsoft's Virtual PC page.

Between DOSBox and Virtual PC, there should not be an old game that you can't play.