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minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoSome win95 / win98 software doesn’t work all that well on Windows 10/11. It’s mostly stuff that was targeted for the early releases of Windows and cannot be run in DOS (or the DOS version is more primitive than the Window aversion). One example: https://archive.org/details/biestystowaway It’s mostly games and random educational releases like the one above.
minus-squareColloidallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoCool, thanks for explaining! I take it they don’t work that well on WINE either?
minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoI am not that well acquainted with WINE, but I do know there are examples where WINE does not work well.
Some win95 / win98 software doesn’t work all that well on Windows 10/11. It’s mostly stuff that was targeted for the early releases of Windows and cannot be run in DOS (or the DOS version is more primitive than the Window aversion).
One example:
https://archive.org/details/biestystowaway
It’s mostly games and random educational releases like the one above.
Cool, thanks for explaining! I take it they don’t work that well on WINE either?
I am not that well acquainted with WINE, but I do know there are examples where WINE does not work well.