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I fairly recently got a new computer running Windows 8, and decided the other night to replay a few of the older fangames like Deltaur Disaster and Mallard Missions, unfortunately they don't seem to get along with Windows 8 at all!

 

I tried running them as admin and changing compatibility settings but keep getting "This App can't run on your PC" message.

 

Anyone have any luck running them?

  • 3 weeks later...
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As a long-time console gamer, I can teel you that trying to get older-generation games running on current hardware *without* emulation is usually an exercise in futility. In all liklihood, those old do-it-yourself game engine games (like K&P) rely on elements of the Windows OS of their day - elements that probably don't even exist in current-gen Windows anymore.

 

You may as well commence ta emulatin', cause getting Windows to cooperate with anything older than a few years is like trying to...well, get Windows to run anything else, really. :wacko:

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Dual boot wouldn't work, but you could always create a virtual machine with VirtualBox or the like, or run Windows 3.1 within DOSBox. Both solutions would be free if you own a copy of Windows 3.1.

 

Not that I've tried. I've used VirtualBox with Windows XP on a Mac, but I'd prefer to consider Windows 3.1 dead and buried!

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KQ7

You realize that there is no need for Win3x to run KQ7. That aside, you are right. Win3x runs so well in DOSBox that it is mostly the Win9x era games that hate the NT kernel that are problematic.
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Yes, I know. It's just fun. :) I never play them, it's just nice to know that they work flawlessly as if they were on a computer back in the day. Nostalgic. Also nice for the games that I never got to have back in the day; installed as if I did. :D

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