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Easiest way to get old Windows games to run? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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I'm trying to get an old Windows game running for a friend.

It seems to be a 16bit macromedia app and I kind of got it running in a Win 98 VM using Virtualbox. DOSBox seems to get confused by it being a Windows app.

Thing is, the friend is very much not good with tech and I want to set everything up for him to "just work". Installing VBox might be a bit too much.

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe set up the VM yourself, then make a shortcut on the desktop and say to your friend to just open it to play the game? Also not very familiar with Windows, but maybe you can set up a script on the VM to open the game at the system's startup, and to automatically turn off the system when the game closes?