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Really excited for Windows 9x emulation, I have an elderly relative who still plays the first Age of Empires, and a few years ago when they upgraded to Windows
by ejj28 6y ago
Really excited for Windows 9x emulation, I have an elderly relative who still plays the first Age of Empires, and a few years ago when they upgraded to Windows 10 the game stopped working and they had to wait for and buy the remastered version.
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoYes! This is huge. I can finally play civ II without using wine, which was always a little wonky.
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- schuke 6y agoIt’s quite remarkable Windows was compatible for so long!
- Nition 6y agoIt's amazing really. I was playing the original Theme Hospital (1997) just yesterday on Windows 10 with no issues[1]. [1] Okay a couple of issues. It needs compatibility mode for the colours to look right. But that option is built into Windows so I don't really consider that a failure of compatibility. And the installer is 16-bit and won't run on 64-bit windows. But some years ago I made a copy of it after install and the actual installed game is 32-bit and runs fine.
- simcop2387 6y agoFor a lot of those 16bit installers, WineVDM works wonders. https://github.com/otya128/winevdm https://github.com/otya128/winevdm It's not perfect compatibility for all 16bit programs but it does tend to work well enough at anything I've thrown at it.
- snake_plissken 6y agoMechwarrior 3 is another game that needs a Windows 9x. I can never get it working in VM Player, excited to try it out on this.
- beefok 6y agoAt the very least, there's also the Definitive edition which plays great in Win 10. I've enjoyed playing that game again.
- aidenn0 6y agoI just might dust off my windows-98 and visual-studio 6 CDs and write software like it's 1999.