Should we welcome Xbox 360 to computer gaming?

[theRepublic]

max power said:

theRepublic said:

 

You make it sound so simple to run older games on operating systems they were never designed for, but that just isn't the case.  I own C&C Red Alert for Windows 95.  It ran great on my old Windows 95 machine.  I tried putting it on my new Windows XP machine a few years ago.  Getting it to run at all was a pain, and when I did, it didn't run quite right.  It had issues it never did on the older machine.  Then it started crashing at the same place over and over again.  It became impossible to play the game after the 5th mission or so.

All you have to do is right click - properties - compatibility - play in windows 95 mode.

It's really that simple.

 

If you want to go older, download Dosbox.  I recently got it and dusted off some old DOS games, it's fantastic .

 

And talk about using a PC being difficult... back in those days you had to worry about IRQ's, DMA's, and boot disks because many games were limited to using 640kb of conventional RAM lol

That is what I did.  Got tons of problems.  Had to mess with it some more.  Got it working.  Finally got the problems as listed above.  Gave up.