I’m trying to get an old Windows game running for a friend.

It seems to be a 16bit macromedia app and I kind of got it running in a Win 98 VM using Virtualbox. DOSBox seems to get confused by it being a Windows app.

Thing is, the friend is very much not good with tech and I want to set everything up for him to “just work”. Installing VBox might be a bit too much.

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I would think the easiest way is to get a cheap old PC and install XP or 98 etc. If you’re afraid of getting hacked keep it off the network.