 Win Xp Pro X64 Bit- Emulators & Compatibility, Emulators for Win x64 |
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 Jan 5 2008, 02:57 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ]  Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 5-January 08 Member No.: 27,378  |
Hello:
I am using Windows XP x64 bit. Can anyone point me in the direction of emulators that will allow ALL 32-bit and 16-bit apps to run under this platform? Thanks, John Kercheval |
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Jan 5 2008, 03:31 PM
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Premium Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 414 Joined: 16-February 06 From: Kolkata, India Member No.: 11,322 myCENTs:43.98 |
Win XP x64 is fully backward compatible to 32 bit softwares using the built in WOW32 technology. Although, 16 bit application support have been discontinued because Microsoft can't go on carrying them forever. So, what you actually need is a 16 bit Emulator. DOSBox is one of the popular ones. You can find more by googling.
Many softwares can't get past the Installation point in Win XP x64. This is because the setup validation fails for the Operating System. Many such applications can be run by Copy-Pasting the files and (if required) importing the registry settings. Although, complex applications such as Antivruses designed for 32 bit environments are not likely to run. Perhaps because they need to install drivers or something like that. |
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Jan 5 2008, 03:55 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 5-January 08 Member No.: 27,378 |
I heard that DOSBox is a DOS emulatoir, will it run 16-Bit WINDOWS software? John QUOTE(turbopowerdmaxsteel @ Jan 5 2008, 03:31 PM)  Win XP x64 is fully backward compatible to 32 bit softwares using the built in WOW32 technology. Although, 16 bit application support have been discontinued because Microsoft can't go on carrying them forever. So, what you actually need is a 16 bit Emulator. DOSBox is one of the popular ones. You can find more by googling. Many softwares can't get past the Installation point in Win XP x64. This is because the setup validation fails for the Operating System. Many such applications can be run by Copy-Pasting the files and (if required) importing the registry settings. Although, complex applications such as Antivruses designed for 32 bit environments are not likely to run. Perhaps because they need to install drivers or something like that. |
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Jan 5 2008, 04:39 PM
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Premium Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 414 Joined: 16-February 06 From: Kolkata, India Member No.: 11,322 myCENTs:43.98 |
You are correct DOSBox only runs 16 bit MS-DOS programs and not 16 bit Windows Applications. You can use Virtual Machines (Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare) to install Windows XP 32 Bit and then run the 16 bit apps on your x64 OS.
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Jan 5 2008, 07:37 PM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,880 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:92.74 |
If you are not ready to jump to 64-bit yet (which most people should be, only people with Windows is still stuck there on 64-bit processors), then you should just simply go back to 32-bit to ease the confusion. However, if you must use 64-bit, then you will have no choice but to either ditch 16-bit, which should be ditched a long time ago or follow turbopowerdmaxsteel's (man, your name is long) suggestion and install virtual machines. All 64-bit processors have hardware virtual machine support. That means that the CPU is capable of making virtual machine faster instead of going all software-emulation, the hardware can also do some emulating.
Plus, you get a much better X86-64 support on Windows Vista than you do with XP. The XP x86-64 support is like beta and Vista is the real thing. xboxrulz |
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