Shaun, Um...Its not just that 16-bit support is broken, but was completely removed from 64-bit versions of Windows 7. I don't know all of Microsoft's reasoning behind it, but I can't really blame them for dropping support for 16-bit games and applications. All of that software is for Windows 95 and earlier. We can't expect Microsoft to support software that old indefinitely.
Besides most of that software is so old its not worth keeping anyway. I don't think anyone in their right mind is going to go back to Word Perfect 5.1 or MS Word 2.0 when Word Perfect 12 or MS Word 2010 are more up to providing the demands of todays work place. a text only web browser like Lynx isn't up to the task of playing live audio casts and streaming videos as well as a number of other multimedia features we now consider common place. I don't know too many people who whould prefere a text only ftp client like Microsoft FTP when they have to type a command like "get filename.zip" when with Filezilla or another Windows FTP client they can just right click on the file and browse for a location to save. Bottom line, there really isn't a big market for those old software applications any more, and there really isn't much justification for keeping the support around outside of a few clasic Dos games like Duke Nukem or Prince of Persia. Cheers! On 12/11/11, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > true, 16 bit stuff is being totally broken in 64 bit versions of > windows, Though 16 bit support without a real dos emulater is not > that nice anyway right now. > Oh well, I guess we will have to play our old games with dosemu or > other dos emulator in linux then. > Or an old system which I plan to get. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
