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I have a load of old pc games that run on the windows 98 and I still want to play them, Is there a way to get these old games to run on the windows 2000/XP? Thanks

I'm pretty sure there are many ways to convert them into becoming 2000/XP compatible.
(and, many 98 games are compatible with them already). Try googling it.

Ok thanks I'll try that.

I work a bit on coding. If I can know what game it is, I could try to make you an emulator for it.

It is possible to get Earthsiege 2 to run under Windows XP. There is a program created by Microsoft for system admins, it is called Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0. (Link will not work? Search for Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 on the website)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/resu ... layLang=en

Once it is installed you must make a new Fix and add all of the Exe's in the ES2 folder to it. Then enable the fix "GlobalMemoryStatusLie". It will work, but for some reason it uses the CPU not the VPU to handle grapics, so the performance might be a bit slow.


If that still doesn't work, then;
1. In the Compatibility Administrator, right-click on "Custom Databases" and select new.

2. Right-click on the newly-created database and select "create new" and then "compatibility mode".

3. Find "EmulateJoystick" and "GlobalMemoryStatusLie", and add them (by double-clicking)

4. Enter a name for the compatibility mode (I used "ES2") and click on "OK"

5. Right-click on the database you created in step 1 and select "Create new" then "Application Fix"

6. Enter the name of the application ("Earthsiege 2") and the vendor ("Sierra")

7. Click the "browse" button next to the program file location field, and find the ES.exe file (on my system, it's at c:\sierra\es2\es.exe).

8. Click on "next", then check the "256Color" and "ES2" compatibility modes. Also, if the "Microsoft Windows 95" radio button is selected, change it to the "None" radio button.

9. Click "next", then "next" again, and then click the "auto-generate" button.

10. Finally, click on "Finish". At this point, you should name your database something (right-click and select "rename"), and then save it (save button in the toolbar).

11. Now you should be able to right-click on the database and select install. Windows will now watch for you to execute the ES.exe program and apply the fixes automatically. On my system, it performed perfectly joystick and all.


Hope this helps; much easier than writing an emulator for it. If it still doesn't help, I'll see what I can do.

You are most welcome.