Reply 80 of 85, by tincup
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wrote:And the other thing is that most games run quite well on newer XP machines without all the headache.
...well there you go. But if you can't easily get an old game to run smoothly on an new rig [XP/7/8] building a box is usually the most straightforward solution, if you have the parts. Once you've done that, problem solved, and no worries that your next OS upgrade will require a completely new set of patches/tweaks/esoteric arts to get it running again.
For me the hot setup has been to leave dos games to DosBox, which works like a charm, and build boxes [currently 3] specifically for the finicky W95/98 era stuff - especially glide/rendition based 😀