I have a game by acclaim, machines that wont work on anything but a windows
95 or an ME, but i have an XP, an error comes up telling me its not a vaild
win 32 application, iv already tried the compadability thing in as many ways
that i can think of. Is there anything that i could do to get it to work on
an XP.

That could be a faulty autoexec.nt
Copy this file from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32

Smokexbox wrote:
> I have a game by acclaim, machines that wont work on anything but a windows
> 95 or an ME, but i have an XP, an error comes up telling me its not a vaild
> win 32 application, iv already tried the compadability thing in as many ways
> that i can think of. Is there anything that i could do to get it to work on
> an XP.
>
>

Hi Smokexbox,

Maybe that's a DOS game? ...

When a game is a DOS game, it could work by using the Multiboot
bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
and always check at fileplanet.com to see if there's a patch available.

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/faq.php and
http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm For sound
issues use: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound Good Luck! :-)


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Smokexbox Wrote:
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| I have a game by acclaim, machines that wont work on anything but a windows
| 95 or an ME, but i have an XP, an error comes up telling me its not a vaild
| win 32 application, iv already tried the compadability thing in as many ways
| that i can think of. Is there anything that i could do to get it to work on
| an XP.