Playing 95/98/ME games on XP

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Last night I was digging thru my collection and found several older games that I never got around to completing so i decided to install some of them and these were the results. Most of them were old Lucasarts games

SW:Battle of Naboo- No sound on title screen, hickup/sound cut out, screen goes BLACK after the intro. Have to terminate the program to quit it.

Star Trek: New Worlds- Intro plays fine but crashes/blacks out when you start playing a mission :(

TIE Fighter (I have both the original collectors edition and the "Texturized" version Collectors Series that was released in 1998 along with X-Wing)... 2-d In game graphics work fine but when you try to start a mission it crashes/blacks out.

Yoda's Stories CD with Behind the magic-BTM Feature will work but sound will pop during video playback, Yoda's stories won't work at all.

Fur Fighters-WON'T INSTALL PERIOD!


and a few others I have yet to try because of these weird issues. Looks like anything before 2001 is a problem..yet I remembered playing Star Trek: New Worlds fine on XP back in 2002 when I bought it at eb for 8 bucks.


Now I have tried setting the compatibility mode for each game to their proper mode for a game that was made for a OS when it was released, hence I set the X-Wing Collector's edition for 95/98 and ME yet I still get the problem listed.


Most of these games have been abandoned by the companies long ago.
As for the sound issue, my guess it could be that my SB XiFi Music card can't handle the old IRQ/DMA ports used by those games. Since these are windows based games, I doubt DOS box or SCUMMVM will be helpful here. Now without having to reformat and triple boot my system (yes you can do this but you have to format your hard drive to FAT16), are there any program I can use to make these classic titles work again?

thanks


my system specs
Windows XP home/XP Pro
p4-3ghz
SB Xifi music card
2 gigs of ram
6800 gt 256 agp
 
I think there might be a program out there that runs the games in a window, I think this program will let you tweak settings for older games so that they will run on XP. Sorry I can't think of what it's called off the top of my head. Just try Googling something along those lines, maybe you will find something that will work. Also try Googling the name of one of your old games along with "XP" and see what you get. Sometimes you can simply change a line of code in a readme file that will allow the game to run in XP. I'm pretty sure that this can be done in C & C: Red Alert on XP. Hopefully you can find something that will work for you, old PC games should never die.
 
I think there is an option if you click the properties tab of the executable program, to run in WIN 95/98 mode.

I couldn't get Tie Fighter CE to run. I need dosbox for that I suppose.
 
Try running it in window mode, go to start, click run...then type this in.

make sure to replace the game folder and appropriate .exe file

C:\Program Files\game foldert\thenameofthegame.exe -window
 
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