To Windows Designers - Compatability Program

[enraged]

Please improve your compatability program to run older
games (eg. Rogue Spear, etc) in your next new Windows
Longhorn operating system.
There are a lot of games for windows 95 & 98 that do not
work no matter what you do with the compatability program.
There must be ways to make improvements.
Thanks,

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Please improve your compatability program to run older
games (eg. Rogue Spear, etc) in your next new Windows
Longhorn operating system.
There are a lot of games for windows 95 & 98 that do not
work no matter what you do with the compatability program.
There must be ways to make improvements.

There comes a point in time where you can longer sacrifice security and
performance for backward compatibility.
It may just be time for you to find more modern software or to use a Virtual
PC technology such as Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, to allow you to run a
Windows 9x machine as a Virtual Machine and use the old software,

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Mike
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[EGR]

There are a lot of games for windows 95 & 98 that do not
work no matter what you do with the compatability program.
There must be ways to make improvements.

Right, and CD players should be able to play vinyl disks, video players
should be able to show 8mm movies, etc., etc., etc...

 

[David Candy]

There are several hundred compatability options. Users can only set 7 of them. The manufacturer is supposed to release a compat patch as they know which of thoose several hundred apply. For custom programs the toolkit is on the XP CD.

Note for dos programs you must use the Dos compat program which is setver.