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Dr James 2 Registered 17/02/2015 13:10:14 Points 64	14th December, 2015 at 14/12/2015 03:29:18 - Hi Daily Click! I downloaded a bunch of KnP games. All of these come with installers. When I try to run them on Windows 7 I get a "this is not compatible" error message. Is there a way around this? n/a
AmyS3 Walking Insanity Registered 06/12/2015 19:00:07 Points 212	14th December, 2015 at 14/12/2015 05:53:31 - install windows xp or better yet, dig out the good 'ol win98SE... /me fondly sways in memorys of the good old days when the os was stable and did wat you wanted ... WITHOUT QUESTIONING EVERY FIPPIN KLICK LIKE WIN Vista/7/8/(9?)/10 ECT. crap....! edit: i still have win 3.11 and dos 6.22 on original 3.5" floppys flying around Edited by AmyS3 ...all typos belongz to me... ...yes all of em... ...oi handz off my typoz...
nim Registered 17/05/2002 Points 7234	15th December, 2015 at 15/12/2015 03:07:38 - There's not an easy way around it as far as I know. None of the "Compatibility Mode" options have worked for me. You could get DosBox and Windows 3.1, but it's a bit of work just to get some Klik & Play games working. //
UrbanMonk BRING BACK MITCH Registered 07/07/2008 Points 49667	15th December, 2015 at 15/12/2015 16:23:16 - Not too much work. I'm sure you could find a preinstalled copy of windows 3.11 for dosbox. Just unzip and launch. I can't remember where I found it myself. Haven't tried launching klik games on it, but I was able to play pipe dream just fine. n/a
MrPineapple the fruitiest word i know Registered 14/10/2008 Points 1449	17th December, 2015 at 17/12/2015 16:43:31 - yeah i swear all installers made to run on windows from the 1990s are 16-bit applications. which is pretty silly given x86 processors stopped being solely 16-bit after the 286. and yeah the components in windows to support that stuff were taken out after XP. i've certainly come up against this problem when trying to install old games i remember fondly to see if they are still as great as my long term memory tells me. the way i got round it? i have an old harddrive from 2009 with XP on it which i can plug in when i fancy playing something old. booting up my PC whilst jamming my hand inside the case to perform the old cable switcheroo is a bit odd... but very me (apparently). i am STILL a talking pineapple!
markno2 Registered 06/06/2006 Points 865	17th December, 2015 at 17/12/2015 23:15:34 - The easiest way is to use a virtual machine running Windows XP. VirtualBox is free and open source, and you can get a Windows XP virtual machine already set up from https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/. Discarded pizza boxes are an indispensable source of cheese.
Jenswa Possibly Insane Registered 26/08/2002 Points 2723	21st December, 2015 at 21/12/2015 19:45:17 - It might also work on windows 7/8/8.1/10 32 bit, since it contains the 16 bit subsystem required. Have you tried if a manually extraction of the setup file is possible? By opening it with something like 7-zip? Otherwise ask for a binary from the software creator. jenswa.neocities.org

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