Yup. I've reverted all but one of my PCs to Windows 7. The only reason I have 10 on my living room computer is for DX12. I don't even know what the advantage is but I do have a new video card that supports it, so I've been holding off on downgrading that one
Just to point out that, for Linux users, wine is a great way to play old games on a modern system without using a VM. It can run in different Windows-Version mode (DOS to Win7 or 8/10) and it is as simple as "wine setup.exe".
If you care about your privacy, you shouldn't be on the internet at all. No matter what your OS is, all major ISP's, phone makers, Facebook, Google, OS makers etc know all about you.
My issue is it seems people are blaming 16 bit compatibly on the OS, which isn't correct. Windows 10 isn't the issue with 16 bit things not working. It's most people running 64 bit windows now. For example: I do know quite a bit about all this - I package up a lot of games for zoom platform (gog competitor) to make them work on modern operating systems etc. I do agree with your point though, if you are going to run a 32bit OS purely for retaining 16 bit compatibility, there are better choices than running Windows 10 x86.
Just use Linux with wine, it'll run your 16 bit programs no problem! I wonder if wine on Linux for Windows would run 16bit Windows programs?
Actually, it's a good choice. You can run a bunch of old windows games better on Linux than Windows. Someone needs to port wine to windows.
I was unaware of this existing actually. Kinda neat/I'm so sorry. Microsoft contributing to the kernel may allow this. Win10 has Ubuntu bash, while not perfect it works, so in theory we can already with enough effort.
The kernel has little to do with this. Since programs compiled for Ubuntu now work pseudo-naively on Windows, it might be worth trying wine. Of course all of its dependencies would have to be properly supported.
I know it was unrelated, I just like seeing MS work on Linux. Regardless, if you're on Linux, Wine just helps with picking what windows version you need to run the application under. For example say you play League of Legends (which has a prototype v0.0.0.36 and we're on 7.3 now and i wanna have someone look through it) and anything post 6.0 is a problem with default wine setups. You run the installer in Vista mode otherwise it will fail, then the application itself in XP mode and everything works out. But pre-6.0 you just need XP I dont condone the installation of league of legeneds but its merely an example of a real issue lately
... Nah you run 16 bit apps on Wine on Linux for Windows on ReactOS of course! Don't be a friggin casual.
Tinkering with an older OS is part of the fun. Why will someone waste time installing an old game in Windows 10 makes no sense to me. It's like collecting. Hunting stuff is part of the fun.
You will need to be more specific than "90s era". A hot PC near the beginning of 1990 was a 486 with basic VGA. AdLib or SoundBlaster Sound if you were lucky. A hot PC at the end of 1999 was a Pentium 3 or Athlon with a GeForce 256.
Yeah, but only with Mac OS X applications. I think the last version that supported OS 9 applications was Tiger. I have some older PPC-based Macs - a slot-loading G3 iMac and a G4 Power Mac. About PCs, I actually built a PC for this purpose - specifically for playing mid-late 90s 3D PC games. I bought a Pentium 4 system from a thrift store, added a Voodoo 3 and some other stuff to it, and installed Windows 98SE. I mainly wanted to be able to play games that use Glide natively, and it does that very well. However, I haven't been able to get DirectX games working on it. I don't know why. It even fails to run the dxdiag Direct3D test.
Not everything runs in wine though. Some early win9x games can run only in Win95OSR2, some will only run in Win95-98 (real hardware or VM), but not in wine or modern windows. Wine is really good when it comes to DX7-9 games though. Compatibility is more than 80% now. Also if we talk about 90s then we can't forget about DOS games but that's much simplier DOSBox and 486 machine for about 2% of DOS games that don't run in DOSBox. Forget about Classic in Tiger. It runs many office apps just fine. For games it's meh... Even SheepShaver/Basilisk II have waaay better compatibility with old Mac games. That's why i still keep my PowerBook G4 and iMac G3.
I use Windows 98 FE (First edition) modified. It is not a new build, but still my original Windows 98 OS install but on newer hardware.
