You stand a better chance with dosbox in win or one of the several dos emus in linux as at least those are proven to work with a good deal of the games from that 'era'. now if your program does not use directx (maybe it uses opengl or something) you might stand a chance. thus when you go to install programs or run them your video and does not include support for directx which I found out to my utter dismay. You see xp mode in win 7 unless you use another virtualization product or use virtual pc and actually install xp. then go back and install xp mode and then install some of my games (brain drool). Win7, set up my dual boot, install slackware (as I will not program or do word processing in windows only in *nix). ![]() ![]() I too once I got Win7 Pro thought (wow, Id love to play some of my old games master of orion ii and just all kinds of others) that ok I will divy up my drives install Unfortunately, it is not an ideal situation or an ideal world. When one contemplates that Microsoft taunted this as an actual selling point it sickens me. In an ideal world installing XP Mode in Win7 should work.
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