Marek wrote:Why bother with DOS software in Windows when you can use DOSbox? It emulates all common graphics cards,
sound cards and ports old software expects. I think, this topic was about native 16 bit Windows software.
And those should work with any 32 bit Windows.
Yes, they should. What I like about DOSBox is that it is able to run Windows 3.x in about all three modes and with a specific amount of cycles.
Depending on how powerful someones PC is and how powerhungry the games are, the experience might be even more
authentic to what newer flavors of Windows offer. Also, some older games did funny stuff with the GDI, windows/system timers, pc speaker, etc. 😀
Would XP Mode (XP inside Microsoft Virtual PC) allow full-screen?
Yes, I believe so. XP Mode requires Windows Virtual PC, though (sorry for sounding like a nitpicker).
It is a special flavor that's featurewise a mishmash of MS VPC 2007 and Virtual PC 7 for Mac:
At one side it supports hardware virtualization (VPC200x), on the other side it supports printers/USB (VPC 7).
I remember that AMD-V/Intel-VT were initally a requirement even. Until MS was confronted with reality:
Their customers had lots of PC that either weren't compatible or had no BIOS support for it.
After that, they backtracked and released a patch for VPC (KB977206). 😁
liqmat wrote:Yes. Still available.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/deta … ls.aspx?id=8002
Don't use the N version. Does not include media player due to European anti-trust crap.
Thanks a lot for letting us know, that's good news! 😀
Edit: Typos fixed. Again.
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