This only works for programs that don't have their own native sound drivers. (DOS) If you have troubles with your sound, take your old BLASTER environment variable from an old AUTOEXEC.BAT or DOSSTART.BAT file and add them to the AUTOEXEC.NT file located in your WINDOWSSYSTEM32 directory. Leave the environment at "auto." Do this for every executable belonging to the program you're trying to run.ģ. (DOS) If it doesn't work, follow step one, then click the Memory tab and set all values except "Initial Environment" to maximum. Set "compatibility" to Windows 95 or 98/ME.Ģ. If it doesn't work, check the properties. :-)Ī few tips for legacy compatibility in XP:ġ. I'm a certified, bona fide, no holds barred EmuHolic. If I ran into any noteworthy emulator problems under XP I'd be whining about it every chance I got. I've come across a few that I couldn't get to work, but those are emulators I haven't used in so long that I frankly can't quite remember if I ever got them to work in the first place.Īnd believe me. At least not yet.Īctually I've had excellent success with most of the emulators under XP. And unfortunately, z26 isn't a mainstream app.
It would simply take too many resources, too much time and be impossible to check everything. Since there are many tens of thousands of programs out there, they'll only investigate commercial apps and perhaps popular and well-known shareware/freeware apps. I doubt they actually analyze the programs to look for Windows/DOS calls that might cause problems (not that this is even feasible without actually running the app, which there's no way in hell they'd do). They then scan your hard drive for these programs on your hard drive, either by looking at the filename or possibly even opening up every executable and DLL to look at information embedded in the file. My guess is Microsoft built up a database of apps known to have problems.
I'm not too surprised that it didn't detect z26.
When I upgraded it only picked up on a couple of old 4D Sports games(driving and boxing - remember them? driving games have come a long way!) but it didnt mention the Z26 emulator so I didnt think there would be a problem. When you install xp as an upgrade it very politely scans all your hardware and software to check for any compatibility problems.
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