On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:01:07 -0600 (MDT), justan wrote:

Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 8/12/17 9:33 AM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 8/12/17 9:04 AM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 8/12/17 8:09 AM, justan wrote:
Wrote in message:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:35:18 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 8/12/2017 12:06 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:25:06 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 8/11/2017 2:46 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:05:47 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Why not just copy the games from an older version. Most are simply EXE
files that are not really "installed".



You can do that if you have them on an XP machine. From Win 7 it's not
that simple. This guy has done all the work for you and the games work
just fine.


Are you saying 7 and up can't even run an EXE file? All the more
reason to stay with XP. What happens when you call one? What about a
COM?


Of course Win 7 can run an exe file but simply copying them from a Win
7 machine on a USB drive and installing them on a Win 8 or Win 10
machine won't work.

Go get them from W/98 or NT.
I know that works and all you need is the EXE.



Based on what I found out, copying the game's .exe and .dll files from
XP and pasting them in a folder in Win 8 or Win 10 works just fine.
Probably works fine with W98 also however the geek sources I found
didn't even mention W98.

The problem is that you can't simply do that with the game files copied
from Win 7 without modifying them with a hex editor.

In another 18-20 years or so when you have necessarily graduated to Win
7, Win 8 or Win 10, you will understand. :-)

(just kidding)



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Why doesn't Win2K ever get any favorable mention here? It was a huge
step up from Win98 and my favorite for quite a long time.

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Dos 2.6 was the best. Win 3.1 was the beginning of the end of user
control.



DOS 2.6? I don't recall a Microsoft MS-DOS 2.6. Enlighten us, oh great
navee trained computer OS guru... I remember an MS-DOS 2.11 and then I
remember it jumping to MS-DOS 3.0...




You don't remember much about those days, do you?


Sure I do, but I have no memory of MS-DOS or PC-DOS 2.6. What was "the
best" about 2.6?



My mistake, or dislexia. Take your pick 6.2.



Ahh, 6.2. I remember 6.2 and, I believe, 6.22. IF my memory is still
working, I ran XyWrite under it. Great word processor, very powerful. I
was writing a lot of legislative testimony in those days, and the
requirements were such that it was long and complex.


Snerk. Testimony, my ass.

I also had to laugh when I read that.