Win9x emulator for WinXP?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 11 Mar 2007, 17:56

Considering that many Win9x games don't run under XP, does anyone know of an emulator that can make Win9x games run under XP?

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 11 Mar 2007, 18:35

It is built into XP by default. Just go under exe properties of the program and click the compatibility tab. Then change the settings so to enable compatibility mode, for example "run program as windows 98 environment" (something like that).

Instructions and tab names may be vague or inaccurate as I'm not running XP right now.

Cabbage · Post by **Cabbage** » 11 Mar 2007, 21:15

it rarely works though ;.;

for things like doom, i find turning sound accelaration down to basic/none lets hte game work fine quite often though

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 11 Mar 2007, 21:26

Doom has tons of sourceports, and any computer capable of playing Spring decently should be able to play Doom at full speed under the newest uber-optimized DOSBox 0.70 release.

Besides, Doom isn't a Win9x game, so I don't see what tat has to do with this thread.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 11 Mar 2007, 21:47

I want one of these too. I know of DOSBox for DOS games, but for 9x...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 11 Mar 2007, 22:42

Does the compatibility stuff really do anything else except telling the app that you run a different version of windows? I mean I've been using some tool from NT4 in the past to "patch" programs which refuse to run.

I assume you don't want to get a sandbox and install win98 on it, otherwise I'd recommend MS Virtual PC, been using it myself for games which are too powerful for dosbox or don't run at all but native dos.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 11 Mar 2007, 22:57

Wahhh! I wanna play Fallen Haven more, I loved its simplicity and upgrades! It says "Please Insert disc!" and I'm like "Damnit windows, its in there, bastard!!!"

Seriously, I luved my older games! Thats why I would rather emulate PS1 gems then go and buy a crappy PS3, good graphics does not make good gameplay...

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 12 Mar 2007, 04:49

yeah but xp has problems with my copy of cavewars... damn I miss playing that game.

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 12 Mar 2007, 06:38

Snipawolf wrote:Wahhh! I wanna play Fallen Haven more, I loved its simplicity and upgrades! It says "Please Insert disc!" and I'm like "Damnit windows, its in there, bastard!!!"

Seriously, I luved my older games! Thats why I would rather emulate PS1 gems then go and buy a crappy PS3, good graphics does not make good gameplay...

Bad graphics dont mean good gameplay either

AF · Post by AF » 12 Mar 2007, 14:50

VirtualPC/vmware + windows 98 CD

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 12 Mar 2007, 15:53

AF wrote:VirtualPC/vmware + windows 98 CD

Ishach wrote:
Snipawolf wrote:Wahhh! I wanna play Fallen Haven more, I loved its simplicity and upgrades! It says "Please Insert disc!" and I'm like "Damnit windows, its in there, bastard!!!"

Seriously, I luved my older games! Thats why I would rather emulate PS1 gems then go and buy a crappy PS3, good graphics does not make good gameplay... :evil:
Bad graphics dont mean good gameplay either

Listen to these men.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 12 Mar 2007, 17:22

I just noticed that it was a problem with the installer, not the game's XP compatibility that prevented Stratosphere from running... Finally I can build bases again, fly them to the enemy and shoot his base to bits!

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 12 Mar 2007, 17:24

smoth wrote:yeah but xp has problems with my copy of cavewars... damn I miss playing that game.

Again, not a Win9x game, It's a Dos game.

(and it runs perfectly in DOSBox anyway, will probably run in XP with VDMSound and nolfb too)

I assume you don't want to get a sandbox and install win98 on it, otherwise I'd recommend MS Virtual PC, been using it myself for games which are too powerful for dosbox or don't run at all but native dos.

Games that are too powerful for DOSBox doesn't exit :P

grumpy_Bastard · Post by **grumpy_Bastard** » 12 Mar 2007, 19:55

KDR_11k wrote:Considering that many Win9x games don't run under XP, does anyone know of an emulator that can make Win9x games run under XP?

Relative wrote:It is built into XP by default. Just go under exe properties of the program and click the compatibility tab. <SNIP>

No, thats a half-assed solution at best.

KDR, if you have a legitamate copy of windows 95, download Microsoft Vitualpc, or Vmware server (both freely avalible to download legally). You can install and run windows 95, within windows xp through virtualization, and the old game wont know the difference. Supports networking and sound fairly well, but graphics are still lacking.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 12 Mar 2007, 20:03

I'm not that sure if my hardware even has drivers for 98...

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 12 Mar 2007, 20:04

ZellSF wrote:
smoth wrote:yeah but xp has problems with my copy of cavewars... damn I miss playing that game.
Again, not a Win9x game, It's a Dos game.

(and it runs perfectly in DOSBox anyway, will probably run in XP with VDMSound and nolfb too)

It ran fine in 9X.. this was one of my chief concerns with XP... so I feel my post was still relevant.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 12 Mar 2007, 20:28

smoth wrote:It ran fine in 9X.. this was one of my chief concerns with XP... so I feel my post was still relevant.

That's because 9X was based on DOS. XP changed a lot of stuff that meant that stuff some games used to get better performance don't work. DOSBox allows pretty much every DOS game to work fine. Vista will be even worse for backwards compatibility.

Caradhras · Post by **Caradhras** » 12 Mar 2007, 21:28

*leaves and plays a match of Master of Orion II*

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 12 Mar 2007, 21:32

Funny, cause I installed MSVPC the other day purly to play MOOII... Doing it on very hard. Sometimes Bad graphics do = good gameplay. (I say Bad there actully amazing for the era)

aGorm

ZellSF · Post by **ZellSF** » 12 Mar 2007, 22:22

aGorm wrote:Funny, cause I installed MSVPC the other day purly to play MOOII.

Assuming you're talking about virtual PC, why the hell would you do that? It runs natively in Windows XP and Mac OS X and it runs pretty damn well on DOSBox on every of the other OSes.

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Win9x emulator for WinXP?

Win9x emulator for WinXP?