What’s cool is that the games available on these services already embed DOSBox, with optimal settings, so you don’t have to install and manage an emulator.Īnother hurdle: Older Windows games that might have run in the Windows 95/98/XP era may not always run cleanly on a newer machine. Typically they cost only a few dollars-sometimes only a couple of bucks. Many classic games are available from Good Old Games or Valve’s Steam online gaming service. If you want to learn the intricacies of using DOSBox to run golden-age games you may already own, check out Alex Wawro’s in-depth tutorial about running old games on Windows 7.įor this article, I decided to avoid worrying about making DOSBox work, and cheat a little. The solution, most of the time, is to grab a neat open-source emulator called DOSBox. Note that these issues aren’t exclusive to Windows 8 they cropped up with Windows 7, as well.
For example, some may run well once installed, but the installer itself might be 16-bit, and therefore won’t run. But this problem isn’t limited to DOS-based games, since it affects some early Windows 95 titles as well.Įven somewhat newer Windows titles that ran well in the Windows 95/98 era may have problems on a modern PC. DOS games are particularly problematic because many of them use 16-bit memory addressing and simply won’t run on modern 64-bit operating systems. Running older games can be an exercise in frustration. But is it even possible on a modern Windows 8 PC? That’s what I intended to find out. That era also saw the transition from games running on DOS-with all its arcane memory-management horrors and divergent graphics APIs-to the modern era of Windows gaming.Īlthough most of the classic titles haven’t aged well, it’s still fun to go back for nostalgia’s sake and check out the games of yore.
#SAME GAME FOR WINDOWS 8 PC#
The PC was a strong source of innovation in gaming, spawning new genres as well as the birth of real-time, online multiplayer games. PC gaming is stronger than it has been in years, but the classic age of PC gaming has to be the mid- to late 1990s.
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