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Re: How to get old Windows XP games to run on Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-06-10, 18:36

in Windows
Regarding FettKeks problem, what Narzoul suggested for not installing in Program Files might be true. I suggest a path such as D:\Games to make sure we aren't bottlenecked by a file system issue Yes, that's true, I think. Windows is restrictive when it comes to "Program Files" and "Program Files ( …

Re: How to get old Windows XP games to run on Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-06-10, 18:21

in Windows
Get a copy of XP's ddraw.dll and copy it into the game folder (NOT the Windows or System folder!). This is highly unlikely to work. XP's ddraw is for sure not compatible with WDDM GPU drivers (which were introduced with Vista), and you can't even install the older XPDM drivers since Windows 8. It …

Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-10, 13:47

in Milliways
It seems that Microsoft plans to discourage the use of HDDs for the Windows installation. Everyone has been discouraging the use of HDDs for boot drives, for years now. Microsoft seems to be the last to jump on that bandwagon. :) But making SSDs a requirement isn't cool, IMHO. That's so single …

Re: How to get old Windows XP games to run on Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-06-10, 05:05

in Windows
How about DXGL? https://dxgl.org/ It's a DirectDraw wrapper to OpenGL. Personally, I tried it many years ago and it indeed worked for some games. Good luck! 🙂👍 Edit: Alternatively, if that's too much of a hassle or if it doesn't work.. Get a copy of XP's ddraw.dll and copy it into the game folder ( …

Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 19:19

in Milliways
By the way, will remake revisit original idea of ambassador Delenn being minbari male (as seen in the pilot episode) which morph into human/minbari female? That idea was scrapped for practical reasons, but it's now (in many meanings). What? Is this real XD I thought Delenn just had bad alien makeup …

Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-09, 19:02

in Milliways
Hello everyone, Just saw an interesting news. https://www.techspot.com/news/94882-microsoft-calls-oems-kill-off-hdd-boot-drives.html It seems that Microsoft plans to discourage the use of HDDs for the Windows installation. The idea is that SSDs shall become the norm for the boot medium. Using SSDs …

Re: Babylon 5 remake?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 07:17

in Milliways
Quick update. A bit late, sorry. News is from late May, sorry. https://movieweb.com/cw-head-confirms-babylon-5-reboot/ Edit: The site says "Who better than the original creator of Babylon 5 to write the script for the reboot pilot?" I'm not sure if that statement is true. People change, we all …

Re: Using the 320x240 256 color video mode

Posted on 2022-06-09, 06:49

in Milliways
VBDOS and PDS 7.1 (QBX) are somewhat backwards compatible to Quick Basic 4.5x.. But they do support larger code and PDS can do 286 code generation, I think. Power Basic also is interesting. It's a relative of Turbo Basic, I think. It seems to support many things, but I had issues with it when I …

Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 06:36

in Marvin \ Video
is the PC gonna be running Vista or 7 (or XP?) cool system btw. GTX460 seems like a really hot card or is 160w tdp not bad? I was planning on using an old GTX570 i had from my old Win7 build in my own XP build but decided against as it could pull in too much power. My PSU is 550w but apparently the …

Re: Video BIOS loader for DOS

Posted on 2022-06-08, 15:26

in DOS
Hi there! Yes, there two kinds, I think. a) VESA VBE TSRs (they install VESA BIOS extension in RAM) b) Utilities that copied VGA BIOS into RAM Then, there were shadow ram utilities that moved ROM code into the 640-1MB region. I forgot the name of b), though. My OAK VGA has it on diskette, though.

Re: How to get old Windows XP games to run on Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-06-07, 21:04

in Windows
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1011873#p1011873 Your idea wasn't bad, though. It just seems that XP nolonger is maintained well in general. 😔 VMware may still work, not sure. However, it's future is uncertain, too. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1073735#p1073735 A few years ago, I …

Re: How to get old Windows XP games to run on Windows 11?

Posted on 2022-06-07, 20:30

in Windows
Hi there! I don't know the answer, since I don't have a Win 11 machine in reach right now. However, I'm also looking forward to a possible solution/workaround! PS: I played the first version/episode on my Win98SE machine. Or rather, the demo of it. I downloaded it from PC Welt or Chip site in ~2000. …

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