Possible to play Win95 game on Win XP?

[imported_TheMessiah13]

I have this old game, Magic: The Gathering, but can't play it on my system. When I go to install it, it gives me the following error: [Severe] This program requires Windows 95.

Is it possible to bypass this?

 

[DerwenArtos12]

you will have to run it in compatability mode. right click on the install program, go into properties and find comatability, check the "run this program in caompatability mode for:" box and it shoudl be default set to windows 95, if not set it to that and click ok. this should fix. you will more than likely have to do this with the game exe as well.

 

[imported_TheMessiah13]

Awesome, should prove useful in other places as well. Thanks.

 

[The Green Bean]

well "lose your marbles" only works on 98/95 no matter what

 

[Acanthus]

Lords of the realm II only works on 95/98/ME.

I tried for days to get it to work on win2k after the massive disappointment with LOTR III.

 

[Juice Box]

I still wanna know why Red Alert One will not work on XP, that game rocked!

 

[Lawranch]

You might be able to get Vitual PC 2004 and run a windows 95 installation within XP. Here is a 45 day demo Virtual PC 2004

 

[Juice Box]

I'd Rather Red Alert One simply worked, rather than getting a 95 installation for xp, but thanks

 

[Fuchs]

VMWare....hehehe Boot up a 95 machine...that would be funny.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare
I still wanna know why Red Alert One will not work on XP, that game rocked!

Exactly what I wanted to know as well.

Warcraft 2 runs fine on XP, but Red Alert is a disappointing no-go... Get with the program Westwood!

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: digitalsnare
I still wanna know why Red Alert One will not work on XP, that game rocked!

Exactly what I wanted to know as well.

Warcraft 2 runs fine on XP, but Red Alert is a disappointing no-go... Get with the program Westwood!

Word, Red Alert 1 along with Kyrandia, man that game was so hard