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Has anyone experimented around w/ running AE on a vm with an older version of windows to get around the win10 issues? I ask more for trying to play BTR which seems to have the same issues AE has w/ win10 but I can't get the same things that work for AE to work in BTR so I thought about winding up a Windows 7/Server 2008R2 VM. Just would need to see about getting an iso somewhere. Thoughts/issues anyone has come across?

Works just fine. [:D]

Win98 has some issues with drawing DirectX graphics (or it might have been the early version of VMWare) but WITP-AE runs perfectly under XP in the latest versions of Oracle VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

Download of an iso isn't an issue but the serial number might be. [:'(]

Have fun.

By the way, Have you tried running BTR under DXWnd??? Works well with Win8.1. [8D]

The 512 MB RAM limit in Win 98 is going to make the game a tight fit in memory, but it should run under an NT based OS with a 4 GB RAM limit.

Bill

I have a similar problem. This is what my computer geek son recommends. He's a developer and has to test his stuff with old OS's.

Virtual machine:
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/fre ... layer/14_0


An XP image from Microsoft:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download- ... rosoft-si/


I haven't tried this yet, as I'm too much of a wimp, but I'd love to find out how it works for you.

I just got back into the new BTR from the old Talonsoft version & noticed it had the same issues w/ Win10 as AE did when they patched it but again all same things that worked for AE to make it run faster didn't work for BTR. I was thinking that a Win7 version VM should be fine w/ maybe 1g as this would probably only be for BTR so don't need to assign much to it. I do work in IT but not a geek by any means & just a jack of all trades server admin type on Linux/Windows servers ex mainframe operator trying to survive in a server based world till retirement so I can play w/ my 2800baud modem dialing in to AOL [:)]

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Download site for free ready-to-use virtual machines for open-source operating systems

https://virtualboxes.org/

Reg - where did you get your Win XP iso from? Not sure if I have my version of it on disk to use as my laptop that I had it for probably was preinstalled & didn't come w/ disks. I know I can get Server 2008R2 & later from work probably but not sure they'll work. I've got a version of Ubuntu loaded up but haven't worked much w/ Ubuntu though I've worked many Linux servers at work where most of our servers our Linux based.

My copy of XP is genuine which I bought ages ago.

The XP image can be extracted into a VM just as bilbow describes in his post above (I tried it and it works) but without a serial number it will expire in 30 days and require you to reinstall (wiping out any work you have done to that point). OK for testing but not a long term VM solution. I didn't try activating it.

You can download current iso images for Win 7, 8 and 10 from Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/software-download but again you will need a serial number.

Thanks Reg, I might be able to get a version of 8 since that is my current desktop (since upgraded to 10) but should be able to get serial # from it.

Just remember, "Like a physical machine, a virtual machine running any version of Microsoft Windows requires a valid license." This is the advantage of Wine which doesn't actually use any MS code.

Review your licence terms and remember that Ebay can be your friend here.....

ORIGINAL: Reg


Works just fine. [:D]

Win98 has some issues with drawing DirectX graphics (or it might have been the early version of VMWare) but WITP-AE runs perfectly under XP in the latest versions of Oracle VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

Download of an iso isn't an issue but the serial number might be. [:'(]

Have fun.

By the way, Have you tried running BTR under DXWnd??? Works well with Win8.1. [8D]

Are you running this on a Win 10 ?

Second Q - anyone tried ReactOS ?

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

Are you running this on a Win 10 ?

Win 8.1. but that is irrelevant. As long as the virtual machine runs on the host operating system the client operating system will be oblivious to the outside.

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

Are you running this on a Win 10 ?

Win 8.1. but that is irrelevant. As long as the virtual machine runs on the host operating system the client operating system will be oblivious to the outside.

I know that, it generally is ... but performance of running a WM XP on a Linux/OSX/etc is different. In fact, I can see a performance difference btwn running the VM on win10 and Winserver.

Thanks

OK - I did install ReactOS and then our beloved WITP. Getting a lot of crashes but that maybe due to my machine. Anyone has experience on this?