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  1. 2012-01-17, 12:39 AM #1
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    Lightbulb To play 90s classic games...

    So like many others, I miss the good ol' days of being able to play games like:

    Age of Empires
    Roller Coaster Tycoon
    Tie Fighter
    X-Wing
    X-Wing versus Tie Fighter
    X-Wing Alliance

    And many others.

    I'm trying to figure out a way to play these games on a computer like mine, a current computer running Windows 7 64-bit. Since I have already tried and had fail all of the tricks like "compatibility mode" and "run as administrator" I'm thinking this may need some bigger guns, so to speak. I was talking to Sephiracle in Mumble last night and I brought up possibly trying to install and boot the games through a Linux partition and he added one could also try and use Windows XP. These ideas strike me as definitely possible, however I am wondering how to legally get Windows XP, as the last computer in my house to have Windows XP is long gone and I don't have the code for that XP anymore. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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    yeh but lava is just very hot water
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  2. 2012-01-17, 12:41 AM #2
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    I'm also interested! I was going to start up a Star Trek: Armada LAN league with some interesting friends but there's a horrific cursor bug in W7 which makes it unplayable. So yeah, answer would be useful.
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  3. 2012-01-17, 12:43 AM #3
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    Windows games shouldn't be a problem. For everything else, there's dosbox.
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  4. 2012-01-17, 12:51 AM #4
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    Well you can always make a partition and install Windows 98 on it ... I just wonder how windows 98 can handle dual core or quad core CPU =/ Or maybe it would work on windows XP!
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  5. 2012-01-17, 01:08 AM #5
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    yeah checked dosbox, don't see the games hosted on there. =/ I think Linux or XP partition may be the trick.
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    "Remember. Remember... that we once lived..."
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    yeh but lava is just very hot water
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  6. 2012-01-17, 01:11 AM #6
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    You could try virtualizing Windows 98. I was doing that for a while, and it works pretty well.
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  7. 2012-01-17, 01:20 AM #7
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    Can't you just use Windows XP Mode? Should be doable?
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  8. 2012-01-17, 01:22 AM #8
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    You can't install stuff using XP mode, and it doesn't pick up anything installed on win7.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phatt1e View Post
    Can't you just use Windows XP Mode? Should be doable?
    As Zergin8r said, you can't install stuff on Windows 7 using XP mode.... it sucks.
    "A flower.
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    "Remember. Remember... that we once lived..."
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    yeh but lava is just very hot water
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  10. 2012-01-17, 01:49 AM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zergin8r View Post
    You can't install stuff using XP mode, and it doesn't pick up anything installed on win7.
    No, you install inside the XP mode. Then just run it from in there.
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    Windows compatibility doesn't generally work.
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  12. 2012-01-17, 01:51 AM #12
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    Unless he means in an XP virtual machine.
    "A flower.
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    yeh but lava is just very hot water
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  13. 2012-01-17, 01:58 AM #13
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    Yeah, install it inside XP Mode that you can get for free from Microsoft here. Note that you need Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise to get it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Eroginous View Post
    Windows compatibility doesn't generally work.
    All the compatibility mode does is fool the program into thinking it's running on that OS with a fake environment, not much else.
    Last edited by mmoc93da00bcb5; 2012-01-17 at 02:00 AM.
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    Real men use Dosbox while playing X-com Enemy Unknown.

    just finished that game on superhuman today ^_^
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    I've been playing AoE2 and AoM recently. Although I want to play Secret of Monkey Island and Loom
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    If you have valid Windows licenses (I'm lucky and have Win3.11, 95, 98, 2000 Pro, and XP as well as 7... screw Vista) you can download VMWare Player free from their website and build a virtual machine for whatever OS you need. While I haven't tried 3.11 or 95, I know the others work very well with hardware acceleration. There is some loss in translation, but it's faster than software rendering, and likely if you're playing a 90's game you can run everything in emulated software and not drop a frame.

    It'll even do a MS-DOS 6.22 virtual box.
    Super casual.
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  17. 2012-01-17, 07:08 AM #17
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    Age of Empires 2 is awesome
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  18. 2012-01-17, 10:52 AM #18
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    Windows 98 is not going to work on a modern computer, but Windows XP SP3 will work.
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  19. 2012-01-17, 11:20 AM #19
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    XP is too new for some of the classics though. I got both Fallout and Grand Theft Auto and they are both Windows 95/98 compatible; not XP (or Me for that matter). I believe GTA has been re-released since. I too got Unreal Tournament, Unreal and Quake III Arena on their original disks, but I believe they work just fine on XP. I haven't given them much thought as I'm not interested in ruining my childhood gaming memories (I'm fairly certain I'd be bored with most of the titles above after some time considering the evolution of gaming... /shrug).
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  20. 2012-01-17, 11:33 AM #20
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    FYI, the original Quake III works just fine on 7 x64.
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