| | Hello: I am using Windows XP x64 bit. Can anyone point me in the direction of emulators that will allow ALL 32-bit and 16-bit apps to run under this platform? Thanks, John Kercheval |
| Nov 21, 2009 |
Win XP x64 is fully backward compatible to 32 bit softwares using the built in WOW32 technology. Although, 16 bit application support have been discontinued because Microsoft can't go on carrying them forever. So, what you actually need is a 16 bit Emulator. DOSBox is one of the popular ones. You can find more by googling.
Many softwares can't get past the Installation point in Win XP x64. This is because the setup validation fails for the Operating System. Many such applications can be run by Copy-Pasting the files and (if required) importing the registry settings. Although, complex applications such as Antivruses designed for 32 bit environments are not likely to run. Perhaps because they need to install drivers or something like that. I heard that DOSBox is a DOS emulatoir, will it run 16-Bit WINDOWS software? John QUOTE(turbopowerdmaxsteel @ Jan 5 2008, 03:31 PM)  Win XP x64 is fully backward compatible to 32 bit softwares using the built in WOW32 technology. Although, 16 bit application support have been discontinued because Microsoft can't go on carrying them forever. So, what you actually need is a 16 bit Emulator. DOSBox is one of the popular ones. You can find more by googling. Many softwares can't get past the Installation point in Win XP x64. This is because the setup validation fails for the Operating System. Many such applications can be run by Copy-Pasting the files and (if required) importing the registry settings. Although, complex applications such as Antivruses designed for 32 bit environments are not likely to run. Perhaps because they need to install drivers or something like that.
You are correct DOSBox only runs 16 bit MS-DOS programs and not 16 bit Windows Applications. You can use Virtual Machines (Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare) to install Windows XP 32 Bit and then run the 16 bit apps on your x64 OS.
If you are not ready to jump to 64-bit yet (which most people should be, only people with Windows is still stuck there on 64-bit processors), then you should just simply go back to 32-bit to ease the confusion. However, if you must use 64-bit, then you will have no choice but to either ditch 16-bit, which should be ditched a long time ago or follow turbopowerdmaxsteel's (man, your name is long) suggestion and install virtual machines. All 64-bit processors have hardware virtual machine support. That means that the CPU is capable of making virtual machine faster instead of going all software-emulation, the hardware can also do some emulating.
Plus, you get a much better X86-64 support on Windows Vista than you do with XP. The XP x86-64 support is like beta and Vista is the real thing. xboxrulz I'm new to the whole emulator thing and I was wondering how I can play sega genesis games on my windows vista pc.Also, I'm confused about what to do once I've downloaded the emulator -reply by chris
Most virtualisation software including VMware allow you to run a 32-bit guest operating system on a 64-bit operating system. It is also possible to run a 64-bit guest operating system on a 32-bit host operating system as long as the CPU supports 64-bit.
I chose to run 32-bit Windows Vista on my 64-bit compatible computer since not many programs out there at the moment can utilise the 64-bit architecture, with most relying on just 32-bit architecture, though tecnically I should have bought a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista to fully utilise my 4GB of memory. 32-bit software can be run on 64-bit systems as the operating system includes a 32-bit emulator. However, you will find that those programs operate slower than if run on a 32-bit system because of the extra processing required with the emulator.
How much needs emulating? I thought the register thing was simple, deep.
QUOTE (Atomic0 @ Apr 26 2009, 09:09 PM) Most virtualisation software including VMware allow you to run a 32-bit guest operating system on a 64-bit operating system. It is also possible to run a 64-bit guest operating system on a 32-bit host operating system as long as the CPU supports 64-bit. I chose to run 32-bit Windows Vista on my 64-bit compatible computer since not many programs out there at the moment can utilise the 64-bit architecture, with most relying on just 32-bit architecture, though tecnically I should have bought a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista to fully utilise my 4GB of memory. 32-bit software can be run on 64-bit systems as the operating system includes a 32-bit emulator. However, you will find that those programs operate slower than if run on a 32-bit system because of the extra processing required with the emulator. There's no emulator for 32-bit software on x86-64 processors. The long mode in x86-64 can run 64-bit and 32-bit at the same time. That's why x86-64 is more successful than IA64 which will require 32-bit emulation in order for it to run. Running the processor in long mode actually allows you to run 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit. However, it's just a Windows limitation that you can't run 16-bit software in a 64-bit operating system since there is not much a reason why you would want to. They removed NTVDM which is what made 16-bit software possible on 32-bit Windows. Windows x64 basically runs the whole system as 64-bit. All the system components are 64-bit. However, Microsoft retains 32-bit libraries and components so that programs can link back to it. It launches an extra layer (like a wrapper) when it detects a 32-bit application being launched called Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64). WoW64 contains all the 32-bit facilities that allows 32-bit software natively on 64-bit systems. Linux also does something similar to this in order to run 32-bit Linux software on 64-bit Linux systems. Luckily for those with 32-bit Windows licenses, all you have to do is to torrent a 64-bit image (this is perfectly legal since you have the license to do it). A 32-bit license can be used on a 64-bit copy of Windows. deltatux
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