Post number #693275, ID: 4c2c4c
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Obscure, right? Who cares?
MyPal - fork of Palemoon, works with modern day websites and is being updated all the time.
7zip - Winrar alternative, works on even Windows 2000
Foobar2000 - music player
MPCHC - video player
Post number #693284, ID: e16a26
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You do realise that all of those apps aside from mypal are compatible with newer Windows versions, right? Windows XP is less obscure and more "you really ought to upgrade unless you have a very strong reason not to"
Post number #693292, ID: c91cf4
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>>693284 i won't update because i still play 3d pinball space cadet
Post number #693306, ID: 5344e6
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>>693292 Just upgrade and run WinXP in a wm before my niece hacks you
Post number #693313, ID: 051f33
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>>693306 im on pentium 4
Post number #693320, ID: 7dfb1d
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>>693313 Use GNU+Linux with qemu or Cooperative Linux or something.
Post number #693427, ID: d7d76f
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>>693320 too hard and gta vice city wont work
Post number #693450, ID: fef1f2
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Using xp in the modern era is asking to have every new virus infect you, xp is still a target because banks do still use it. Difference is they pay for security updates you don't ever get
Post number #693457, ID: e16a26
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>>693292 You know what, that is a pretty strong reason, fair
Post number #693469, ID: fef1f2
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Btw that does still run in windows 10 if you do a little surgery and move the game files over, spin up a VM, drag the game out and keep trying to run it, it should error with a dll missing find it in vm and drop it in the folder with the game until it works
Post number #693473, ID: fef1f2
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You can also run win 3.1 games on 10 x64 using winevdm
On 32-bit versions of windows you can/could install ntvdm from the "install apps and features" page on 32 bit os
That would let you run 16 bit programs like dos and win 3.1 officially on win 10
This is because the modern x86_64 CPUs actually ship with a v86 mode (virtual 8086) the cpu is able to shift into v86 while in legacy 32 bit but not 64 bit mode; a hard reset of the cpu is required to go from 64 to v86
Post number #693475, ID: fef1f2
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Winevdm takes care of the whole not being able to switch to v86 but you can read more on it's github
It's fun to play windows entertainment pack games for win 3.1 on windows 10 at 4k
Post number #693476, ID: fef1f2
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If there's one thing m$ cares about it's backwards compatibility
Post number #693514, ID: f6368a
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>>fef1f2>>fef1f2 good goy
Post number #693524, ID: 7cfa64
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>>fef1f2 tbh id rather have the ocasional randsomeware then ms snooping in on my every keystroke +with the randomized updates the rate of randomly bricked is more or less the same
Post number #693553, ID: f55a93
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Nobody shits on my main man WinXP. It's the second solid Windows edition.
Post number #693572, ID: fef1f2
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>>693524 use Linux, I'm fairly sure wine is able to run basically everything from that era too
Post number #693640, ID: ebf5b7
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>>693553 yeah, right after Windows 2000
Post number #693871, ID: a8702b
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>>693275 If you keep your pc offline then yeah, you can pretend it's still 2005 and stay safe.
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last modified on:
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| Obscure, right? Who cares?
MyPal - fork of Palemoon, works with modern day websites and is being updated all the time.
7zip - Winrar alternative, works on even Windows 2000
Foobar2000 - music player
MPCHC - video player