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Found a port of a game I like and wanted to check it out but it's Windows 98 and I know Windows 10 has shitty compatibility options that never work. Really don't want to go about setting up a virtual machine if I can get away with it.

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[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

why? it's easy to set up a vm. your cpu and motherboard definitely already support it.

windows 10 has it built in already i'm pretty sure, you just gotta enable it in the uhh... add/remove windows features dialog.

e: i have a couple of little computers for running old stuff on bare metal. that's always an option. any of the now insanely cheap 32 bit netbooks will be more than enough.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

windows 10 has it built in already i'm pretty sure, you just gotta enable it in the uhh... add/remove windows features dialog.

Have a link on how to do this?

[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I have not checked this link, it was just first in search

The windows vm host is called “hyper-v” if you want to look up running games under it.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Cool I might be able to boot up windows xp with this, thanks.

[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I’m running qemu for local vms, so I can’t be too much help, but holler if you have problems. That was my local vm solution for years and it works pretty good.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks I actually got it to run native on 10, cheers!

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