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How to Play an Old DOS Game on Windows XP
Remember that computer game you spent hours playing some years ago? It was a great little game, and you just wish you could play it again from time to time. Unfortunately, it was made for DOS (or for Windows 9x) and much as you tried you have always been unable to make it install, let alone work with either Windows 2000 Pro, or Windows XP. You spent hours searching the net, looking for a version that would be compatible with your newer Operating System, but were unable to find one. You also googled the name of the company that used to produce it. You even googled the name of the game designer that came up on the flash screen, or on the “About” screen. All to no avail. Company and designer disappeared in cyberspace and are nowhere to be found. Your game is lost forever. Wait a minute! Lost forever? Ever heard of Virtual Machines? Just install Virtual PC, or VMWare on your existing machine, create a virtual machine that corresponds to the Operating System your game was written for, install your old Operating System, install the game, and voila... Suddenly, your long lost game resuscitates and you can have fun with it again each time you feel like it. Now, you might wonder why anyone would want to play an older game. First, let me tell you that more is not always better, and that some older games, because of their simplicity, were actually much more fun than some of the newer ones. Second, this does not work only with games. It works with any kind of software. Believe it or not, a lot of businesses still use applications that were written for Windows 9x, or even for DOS. Without virtual machines, it they want to keep using the software they like (or sometimes the only software that actually does the job the way they want it done), they can only rely on old machines, and pray the gods of tech support that the next IT person will still be able to fix the old boxes they have to use. But those boxes are really starting to fall apart, and good as a tech might be, it is not always possible, let alone easy to fix them without introducing components old Operating Systems cannot deal with. Last, you guessed it. The trick does not work only to with old Operating Systems, it also works with a lot of other Operating Systems, some of which I am sure you have never heard of. What that means is that you can play and experiment with all kinds of Operating Systems, from DOS 1.12 to Windows 1, to Vista Ultimate, to OS 2, to all kinds of Linux distributions, all from the comfort of your beloved current desktop AND without messing it up. If you want to see the whole list of the Operating Systems you can use with Virtual PC, just visit the link I added.
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