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What I find most amazing about Windows is how -- in the vast majority of circumstances -- modern versions will still run programs written for 3.1 (et al). If t
by c0nsumer 12y ago
What I find most amazing about Windows is how -- in the vast majority of circumstances -- modern versions will still run programs written for 3.1 (et al).
If there's one thing MS can be relied on, it's backwards compatibility for applications.
- shmerl 12y agoNot really. I think you have better chances of running 16 bit Windows programs in Wine on 64 bit OS like Linux, than on modern 64 bit Windows. Same goes for Windows 9x programs which use some 16 bit resources.
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoNot on 64 bit Windows, but for 32 bit, you'd probably be correct.
- yuhong 12y agoThey finally disabled NTVDM by default in Win8.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoYou can even run 1.x apps with some bithacking: http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html I downloaded the 2.x pack. Incredibly, I can copy a screenshot from that page to my OS X clipboard, open CLIPBRD.EXE on my 64-bit MacBook Air in WINE in 2014 and it will display that image (slightly mangled) with full metadata, despite CLIPBRD.EXE being from 1987!