A look at Dart

Posted Aug 18, 2020 8:36 UTC (Tue) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: A look at Dart by Wol
Parent article: A look at Dart

> It would be nice if I could run 16-bit Windows on top of 32-bit Windows on top of 64-bit Windows 10, so all my old applications would run. I've got a fair few Win95/8 (and even earlier) programs which it would be nice still to be able to run

I regularly run some old 16-bit software in a 32-bit Windows XP VM (VirtualBox) running on 64-bit Windows. It's not a perfect solution (not as seamless as native support would be, and it requires a copy of Windows XP) , but it works.

A look at Dart

Posted Aug 18, 2020 11:12 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I've got a working XP vm, but of course the other problem is that Microsoft has shut down the validation servers, so it's impossible (without cracking it) to get a new working copy of XP.

And iirc a decent chunk of software either doesn't work, or doesn't work properly, on XP. For example I have the Terry Pratchett game (which was notoriously buggy :-( and doesn't even work properly on 98!

At some point I need to get a copy of WP6.1 for Windows working again (that, or WP8 for linux, which requires libc5 ...) - unless of course I get a copy of the latest WordPerfect which I bet has had most of the WPisms replaced with Wordisms and is crap as a result...

My wife has some artist program (converts photos into paintings) which again was buggy on 98/2000 and iirc broke completely on XP ...

Cheers,
Wol