The very first computer I had access to had a Windows 95 operating system and it came with a bunch of games installed. I've been wanting to play them again for old times take. I've managed to download some of them in the past but when 64 bit operating systems became standard they dropped support for 16 bit applications so the games don't run on a modern computer even with things like compatibility mode enabled. I was wondering if some of the more technically knowledgeable users here know of a way to run these games on a modern computer.
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Yes, and in fact I've been playing Stars!, which is a windows 3.1 era game, on my windows 10 64 bit. On a 4k monitor.
You want otvdm, which is a tool that implements part of the linux wine envrionment on windows to create a 16 bit subsystem again. Install this puppy and then just run your win16 apps. They will behave like native.
I used to use a VM with 32 bit windows xp to run my oldest stuff, haven't opened that VM since finding this tool.
This is beautiful. I didn't suggest WINE because I figured recommending linux just to run 16-bit winapps would be complete overkill, the fact someone ported WINE onto windows is incredibly recursive and pleasing.