I don't believe I was wrong about 16 bit applications in XP. I said they might work, but are not guaranteed to work. Microsoft takes the same stance, that XP is not designed to work with 16bit applications... Maybe I should have been more specific and noted that they will crash if they're trying to …

Back in the days of DOS, for anyone who's tried configuring games in DOS... You had to set up the sound, video, mouse, keyboard, joystick, CD-ROM, network card, modem, etc, ALL INDIVIDUALLY AND BY HAND! Sometimes it was as easy as telling Doom that you used a Sound Blaster card and it worked, …

As Banquo stated earlier, there are random success stories of 16 bit applications working on WinNT/2000/XP. I honestly don't know why one app will work while another won't, or why one app will work on your XP machine but not on someone else's. It's an intermittent annoyance, but it's best summed up …

I really didn't intend to start a debate on versions of Windows that no one uses anymore, apologies to the original poster. I actuially found myself considering installing a copy of 95A on a spare drive, and thought, 'why'? One could maybe make 95 run on a P4 3gHz, install the latest DirectX, etc... …

I think that you can also install newer version of DirectX. You just *must* update before some components which can be downloaded from Microsoft (I cannot remember now what everything is necessary - I use W98SE now). I actually tried upgrading a Win95 system a few months ago... Not to a new OS, but …

Actually, Mirek, I first played this game in 199... was it 3 or 4? It was set in a futuristic scenario, with no "historic" benefit whatsoever, (being that the war in question takes place several years in the future, and as far as I know never did happen as it plays out in the game). Generally my …

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/osWin95-c.html (Article gives a lil history on first release of 95A, and notes that it does not handle FAT32, or 32bit file access tables.) http://www.avdf.com/aug96/art_odbc.html (Atricle about threading, 32 bit applications and 16 bit applications and Win95) …

Thanks all for the links. These were the ones I was looking for. Ah, good ol' Middle East war strategy. Kindof a shame Israel didn't take over the Middle East in 98. 😁

If they're telling you to make a boot disk for 95/98, then it's probably a DOS-friendly game, not a Windows-friendly game. Typically, you will have trouble running DOS games under NT/2000/XP. That said, you might give DOSBox a try. I was recommended it by the community here, and it's run a few DOS …

Techie note: Win95 Applications are normally 16bit. Win95 had, (to my recollection) three big releases. Version A couldn't handle 32 bit applications at all. Therefore, typically when a program is Win95 compatible, it is a 16bit app. If it said Win98 compatible, then you'd more likely be looking at …

Right, should've been more specific. NT based systems are not *designed* to run 16 bit applications. Sounds like you've had some good luck in doing so, Banq, I envy ya. :happyhappy: I've had to troubleshoot a lot of systems that had no problem other than 16 bit applications not running on an NT box. …

Well, *PERFECT* was a joke. Any idea... Why are there emulators for DOS but not for the old unstable versions of Windows? Especially as we move toward 64 bit processors and operating systems, people aren't gonna want a good Win98 emulator to run old games?

Just wondering, seems like a bunch of us old tymers who like old DOS games... There's one I used to have, can't seem to find it now, called Conflict. It's little more than a text based game with CGA graphics, if I remember right, and it involved you being the Israeli Prime Minister, trying to take …

I just bought a game from MicroIDs called Corsairs Gold. Looks really nice for it's age... But I've determined that it's not completely XP ready. (For the record, I do have a seperate computer that dual boots, and if it were up and running I'd check it there. But, until I get more money into my …

Sounds like the patch doesn't make a Win32 application... That is, it becomes a Windows compatible 16 bit application, as opposed to a real mode 16 bit application. Win9X systems (Other than Win95A) can handle 16 and 32 bit applications. WinNT systems can only reliably handle 32 bit applications, ( …