The Astérix Gaming Guild: retro-asterix

Stinkek

Almost 4 euros... Good luck installing this, whoever buys it. https://www.ebay.de/itm/223763748634

Stinkek

Imagine not reading system requirements. Also, Compatibility Mode in 98% of cases is a joke.

Mr.Rubinshtein

what genius installs a game on modern windows lol

Mr.Rubinshtein

they need to emulate the OS

Mr.Rubinshtein

then play the game from there

Stinkek

From my experience with VirtualBox, it works on Windows 98, didn't really notice any difference, but XP is too advanced.

JonasZockt

Ha, I actually have that game and remember playing it on Windows XP or something by just launching the game exe directly. Granted it only ran with major gamebreaking glitches xD Maybe I should try playing that again

Stinkek

I decided to try it, all exes here open the installer, which tells me the game requires 3.1 or 95. I can open some minigames in the GAME folder though, they have their own exes which can work independently.

JonasZockt

Right, that's what I did. Feels like ages ago so I didn't remember it completely. But I remember wondering about the extra exe files for the mini games. Interesting how these old games work

Mr.Rubinshtein

there are emulators that simulate the environment of 3.1 and 95 out there

Mr.Rubinshtein

you can download them and run the game through them

Mr.Rubinshtein

any game that was created before XP needs a emulator

Mr.Rubinshtein

without that you cant really do much

Mr.Rubinshtein

there are some emulators that are powered by DOSBox

Mr.Rubinshtein

so you would need to look into there first

Mr.Rubinshtein

hold on

Mr.Rubinshtein

i think i know how to help you out

Mr.Rubinshtein

https://www.myabandonware.com/howto/windows

Mr.Rubinshtein

found a great article

Mr.Rubinshtein

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