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Battlegrounds Gettysburg
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:26 pm
by Guest
This game should be able to run under windows 95 or 3.11.
However it won´t work in 95 compatibility, can anyone help me out?
If you need more info, please don´t hesitate to ask.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:30 pm
by Guest
95 compatibility, while a wonderful thing, is not going to do it 100% like the real Windows 95 did.
Windows XP and Windows 95 are two fundamentally different kernels, and there may be something the game is doing that Windows XP refuses to tolerate. (like direct hardware access, sharing violations, etc.)
It may help to post a screenshot of an error message.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:33 pm
by Guest
the error message would be in german, so I´ll post it in german and english
Win16-Teilsystem
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Die Systemdatei ist nicht geeignet, um Anwendungen für MS-DOS oder Microsoft Windows auszuführen. Klicken sie auf "Schließen", um die Anwendung zu beenden.
Win16-partsystem
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system is unsuitable to run applications under MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows. Click on "close" to end the application
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:26 pm
by Guest
At that, the Windows 16-bit Subsystem, which is the only built-in function Windows XP uses to run Windows 3.1 and/or DOS games, appears to be incompatible with that game. Therefore you will need to create an emulation environment to run the game, such as DOSBox,
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
Or you could make a boot disk, but that is more complicated.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:06 pm
by Guest
I tried dosbox
The results:
"Illegal command: win"
or
"This program must be run under Microsoft Windows"
Any other ideas?