vista backwards compatible?
- Thread starter monka
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Dub-Se7en
Lifer
and it does f*ck all :homer:
the best way to play oldskool games is to build an oldskool rig.
i play all my oldskool games like doom and viper racing on this
p3 600
128 ram
10gb hard drive
97'GlanzaVTurbo
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This should sort your problem, have tried it many times on different computers and it works fine.
Christy
starbogt
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It is worth a try but vista has many glitches that stop things working... I have found backward compatibility very frustrating with vista it either works or doesn't its pot luck.
Dub-Se7en
Lifer
we'll see, some games will simply not run in an NT environment. the best and often the only way to play win9x games, is in win9x.
97'GlanzaVTurbo
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You may be right but if it works it saves him money having to go and buy/make a computer with win9x on it.
Suppose another option would be dual booting your system, if you get a Vista Operating Systems Disc and a Win9x Operating System Disc you could format your hard drive and create 2 partition install the Vista on One and Win9x on the other, then everytime you boot up it will ask you which operating system do you wana start and depending on what you wana do you chose i.e play games Win9x, go online etc Vista.
Christy
Dub-Se7en
Lifer
good idea.
i'm still fighting to run dos games, even on this oldskool system. i cannot remember for the life of me how correctly use himem.sys and emm386 to free up the conventional memory properly. i used to be able to do this easypeasy when i was 12!
gonna see if i can find an old DOS6.22 boot disk and adapt it.
i'm still fighting to run dos games, even on this oldskool system. i cannot remember for the life of me how correctly use himem.sys and emm386 to free up the conventional memory properly. i used to be able to do this easypeasy when i was 12!
gonna see if i can find an old DOS6.22 boot disk and adapt it.
97'GlanzaVTurbo
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LOL aye if it was me as im an inpatient, I would just dual boot my system. Like have a system running high memory,hard drive, graphics card, processor etc. At the minute im trying to quad boot a system with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Unbuntu and Mac OSX. The Mac is cauing me problems with the system not recognising the installation even though the partition is created and Mac installed on it, nearly got it resolved though now by the looks of things.
But aye think Dual boot is your best bet mate.
Christy
Dub-Se7en
Lifer
Service Pack 1 for Vista was released on April 15th
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...a/bb738089.aspx
also, keep an eye out for sp3 for XP, released on the 29th.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...a/bb738089.aspx
also, keep an eye out for sp3 for XP, released on the 29th.
97'GlanzaVTurbo
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Aye I am just waiting for the unhappy customer to come through with 'I just downloaded SP1 for Vista and now my machine wont work'haha. Has anyone installed this yet?? Any problems etc?? There usually is with Microsoft.
Christy
Christy