We all know that really old games don't work on Windows XP, but what about certain games that were designed for Windows 98 that don't work? There's no DOSBox equivalent there. I have an idea, and I just wanted to know if it is possible, or if it already exists.
I intend to hook the kernel's function calls that a game uses (or any other OS specific thing), and obviously perform/return whatever an earlier version of Windows would.
Is this possible?
I never had any problems the compatibility wizard &/or the compatibility tab in the file's properties couldn't fix...
atari2600a wrote:
I never had any problems the compatibility wizard &/or the compatibility tab in the file's properties couldn't fix...
AAAAAAAAAAAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You so funny. The rest of us don't seem to be that goddamn lucky when it comes to playing Might and Magic VI or whatever. Like Microsoft are gonna come up with somthing that would help you play old games. They
want you to play the new expensive Vista-Needing stuff.
Well MS Virtual PC 2004 IS freeware.....
Anything w/ 1GB & =<1.5GHz Core Duo/Core 2 Duo, =<2.5GHz P4 should suffice to run Win95/98, given you know what to kill in the native OS when you run it...If you're an anti-piracy freak you can always try out running ReactOS in a virtual PC, or better yet, install it (or a Linux distro w/ Wine) on it's own partition...
I already installed Win98 on a partition and then I couldn't get the Win98 NVidia drivers to work and messed up the installation. I'll give virtual PC a try, thanks.
Win2k is a good solution, as it's probably the last "stable" windows out.
Win98 isn't bad but you need drivers for everything and all..., plus it tends to crash somteimes.
WinXP crashes somewhat often and had major changes on the wrong size (trough it is decent, I wouldn't stuck with it).
I've heard many times how bad are both WinMilenium, and it looks it's pretty much the same way for WinVista, so here you are...
Windows XP sucks that's it no question about it. Try installing Wingroove properly, no support for MPU-40 midi device and a few other programs. Downgrade to XP.
Vista can be a good OS, just not out of the box. You just have to know what services & startup items to kill. I managed to get a Vista Ultimate install to boot up in about 30sec on my 1.6GHz Core Duo laptop w/ 1GB of RAM.