Vista Versus 16 bit Games

[piasabird]

Can Vista play in any way old 16 bit games like Win XP Can?

I am trying to get a copy of Vista Business Ultimate from Work. Under our License Agreement we can install it on one computer at home. Probably will be just the 32 bit version. I am building a new Core 2 System with integrated Video.

I play some games like Dune 2000 and AGE of Empires 1/2/3 and some other older games from time to time.

 

[bsobel]

Vista 32 can, Vista 64 can not (no 16 bit subsystem on V64)

 

[Smilin]

I'm not sure if x64 will thunk all the way down to 16bit.

You should be ok with 16 bit apps on Vista x86 although I think the games you are listing are 32bit.

 

[Cutthroat]

You could probably run 16bit games in a virtual PC with XP or something on Vista64.

 

[Rilex]

x86-64, when run in long mode, will not let you thunk to real mode. Limitation of the architecture itself. Use DOSBox, VPC, etc. to emulate a 16bit environment.