Catz and Dogz are 16bit games so cannot work on a 64bit OS without emulation. So if you want to run them on a 64bit OS then you'll need to use VirtualPC,VirtualBox,Vmware, DOSBox, etc running at least Windows 3.x as a guest OS.

Catz and Dogz work fine on Vista 32bit.

You should update to Catz/Dogz 5 at least, that's loads better, and is pretty much the final product in the pf magic legacy.

Even though Catz/Dogz 2 is 32-bit, it'll refuse to run on any NT derivative.

Dogz is one of the rare ones that even BREAK in Windows 98 due to the new shell captions.

ALSO DON'T JUDGE ME FOR PLAYING PETZ

You're not the only one. I used to play Petz 3 and 5 obsessively when I was younger. 🤣 Those games, along with The Sims, SimCity 2k/3k, Majesty, various emulators, and Civ 2 (all played with gratuitous amounts of cheats 😁) were my PC gaming crack from the ages of 7 to 10. 🤣

leileilol wrote:

Dogz is one of the rare ones that even BREAK in Windows 98 due to the new shell captions.

Interesting. What do you mean?

Jorpho wrote:

leileilol wrote:

Dogz is one of the rare ones that even BREAK in Windows 98 due to the new shell captions.

Interesting. What do you mean?

USNF 97 was another one. It was 32 bits, but needed a patch to run properly under Windows 98.

while on the subject of crappy software, back in highschool I would run a little program called sheep. And what it would do was literally drop a sheep onto your desktop. You could pick him up with the mouse and move him around.

Yes, I remember that one; I still have it somewhere. ToastyTech.com has it in its sidebar:

But anyway, what are these "shell captions"..?

there was also an orange

Thanks for all the help, compatibility mode using XP SP2 worked just fine; my wife will be happy.

It's just a program for fun. I have no idea if it will work in compatibility mode.