Win 3.0 Game

[Simon Potts]

Many years ago I bought a game, Tower which ran happily on
Windows 3.0 etc. Then I upgraded to Windows 95. It still
ran happily.

However since I have upgraded to Windows 2000, this
program does not run. No error messages, just double click
and then nothing.

Is there a program in Windows 2000, application shell
setting or even something that I can download to run Tower
in for it to run?

Thanks in anticipation

 

[J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT]]

That's a hard question to answer without knowing why it's failing. There
are a lot of games that just won't run on Windows 2000. Windows XP is
extremely more compatible with games in my experience but I don't know if
that would be an option for you or not. If you were really desperate to get
it to run you could always load up a program like Virtual PC and run a copy
of Windows 95 in a VM on your Windows 2000 computer. There's a performance
hit you suffer but if it's a Win3x application then I doubt that will be an
issue.

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J.C. Hornbeck, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Many years ago I bought a game, Tower which ran happily on
Windows 3.0 etc. Then I upgraded to Windows 95. It still
ran happily.

However since I have upgraded to Windows 2000, this
program does not run. No error messages, just double click
and then nothing.

Is there a program in Windows 2000, application shell
setting or even something that I can download to run Tower
in for it to run?

Thanks in anticipation

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279792&Product=win2000