Most likely it's going be to your physical CDdrive, which presuming you got the game from pirate bay is empty. But the audio track is played from the first CDdrive in your system, even if that CDdrive is not the ShadowCompany CD. The game looks for the CDdrive that has the CD from which the videos are played afterwards (logical). The logic behind it is a bit dumbfounding though. The CD is a mixed mode data+audio, I had it mounted with wincdemu which does not do mixed mode, after mounting it with imgdrive music worked.
Install the game, patch to 1.31, extract dgvoodoo2 to make it run and. Copy files from the CD on HDD and replace setup.exe with the installshield launcher ( ). After applying the 640x480 and WinXPSP2 compatibility flags on the exe, the game ran perfectly fine on Win10. Overwrite the original executable with that. Other than that, there were no problems with the game, it ran 100% on Win10.īlue Heat - Win16 installer, game is both Win16 and Win32. For the resolution, you can change your desktop resolution manually, to get it fullscreen, or play it at a higher res and have it in a 800圆00 box.
For the 16bit colors just enable them in the compatibility tab. Also it uses quicktime 2.1.2, but it already comes with it on CD3, you can just install it (with administrator privileges). Still, they'd need to be tested, maybe there are some problems down the road? I only played them a bit.ĭays of Oblivion - This is a Win32 game, but it has a 16 bit installer. I had to enable a hypervisor in winevdm to get smooth videos though. It ran fine on my DOSbox.ĭaedalus Encounter DVD - Win32 game, a pain in the butt to get it running, fortunately there's the CD versionĭaedalus CD & Johnny Mnemonic - Win16 games, I tried them in winevdm and they ran very nicely.
Unless there's some bad interplay with DOSbox, I don't see the need for Win95. VoyeurII - This is a DOS game, it even has a DOS installer (install.bat). With that said I was playing with winevdm lately so I wanted to look at Johnny Mnemonic and the rest.Ī lot of them have Win16 installers, use winevdm to install them. All unhappy gamers are unhappy in their own unique ways and all happy gamers are happy in exactly the same way - in that they play Win95 games without emulating Win95. Other alternatives to VirtualBox (thanks to pixel for mentioning) are: VMWare Player and Windows Virtual PC ( Windows 7 Home Basic / Premium are also supported host operating systems).There are plenty of ways of emulating Win95, but they're all last desperate hail mary attempts at running the game.
A VM software you might want to try is VirtualBox, which you can use to run Windows 7 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, or an even older Windows OS within Windows 7 Home Basic / Premium. A VM will allow you to run a 32-bit OS within 64-bit Windows 7. Īnother alternative is to use a Virtual Machine (VM). An installable build for Win3mu can be downloaded from. The website for Win3mu only offers a source code download. It includes an 8086 CPU emulation that loads 16-bit Windows executables and maps API calls onto the modern 32 or 64-bit Windows API. Since NBA Live 98 doesn't seem to be a DOS game, you might want to try the emulator, Win3mu. Use an emulator like DOSBox for 16-bit DOS games.
This question on Arqade: How to get old 16-bit Windows games to work on 64-bit Windows?, is similar to yours, but the solutions in the answers won't help since you can't run Windows XP mode in Windows 7 Home Basic / Premium.Ī solution, from this post in Super User: How do I get 16-bit programs to work on a 64-bit Windows?.