Jane's flight sims on XP?

[Slickone]

Is it possible to get IAF, USAF, F-A/18, F-15, and WWII Fighters to work on Windows XP?
For example, I read of people having problems in USAF of not being able to select anything in the pre-flight setup menus (also w/ Win2K).

Otherwise, how much trouble is it to create a new partition and install Win98SE on an already installed WinXP system?

 

[MrPhelps]

Did you try the compatability wizard in xp?? I haven't but it might work for you, I also like flight sims and am currrently looking for a good one. Good luck.

 

[Slickone]

I haven't even tried installing any yet. I had been reading some of the multiplayer gaming lobby forums and people were talking about having problems with them in XP. I was deciding whether to try to create a Win98SE partition before I installed them.

I think I read it at both of these (for USAF):

http://www.retrorelics.net/jim/
http://hyperfighter.jinak.cz/

 

[manly]

It probably isn't too helpful, but worth a look:

http://www.ntcompatible.com

 

[CrimsonKing]

I just picked up F/A-18 at BJ's for $10, but didn't read the small print on the package that said not compatible with NT. And I just reimaged the machine, putting 2000 in the boot partition. Found a copy of 98, but, of course, it wants to be in the boot partition. There's no way I'm starting over. I like this puppy now! So I was going to try to see if XP would (1) run the game and (2) install onto a secondary partition.

Anyone have the answer to either of these? I'll probably have to pick up Boot Commander/Partition Magic to fix the problem, no?

TIA.

 

[Slickone]

I was going to get and use Partition Magic to shrink my current partition that WinXP is on, and make a new one to install Win98SE to for certain games, as described here.

M$ came out with a compatibility patch(s) for certain games/apps, but I wonder why they don't add fixes for other popular ones, like these.

 

[sandorski]

IAF and WWII Fighters work fine for me in WinXP.

 

[leftyman]

same here...ww2 fighters plays fine..wish i could get my usb stick to work with mig alley on xp