Articulate Vlish xensaya Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 I'm having trouble understanding this and I don't want to start up an old topic (usually intensively frowned upon) so I'm starting a new topic. Is there a way to run exile games on the windows 10 without installing another version of windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 The Exile games definitely won't run on any 64-bit operating system. If you're one of the tiny percentage of people using 32-bit Windows 10... well, I still wouldn't count on it running. Your best option is probably to use a virtual machine, basically running an earlier version of Windows inside your main version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish xensaya Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Do you have suggestion for a program to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 VMware and VirtualBox are the two main options. Here's an article about virtual machines if you'd like to learn more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulate Vlish xensaya Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Thanks for the help, I got VirtualBox to work with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora IntoP13c3s Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 I know this topic has been answered successfully, but i feel like i should throw in my 2 cents too. If all else fails, or you feel uncomfortable using a VMWare-ish piece of software (most people tend to forget that that option will still require a valid windows serial key, which is quite hard to come by, for some versions), there is also the option to use a free version of Linux. Some (mostly ubuntu-based) distributions have an emulator built in, making it possible to run windows games over your linux operating system. Also, a big pro opposed to getting a legit windows version, it's usually free! You can either install such a linux version as a virtual machine, as suggested above, or as a dual-boot (choose which operating system to load as the computer starts). Do keep in mind, however, that some newer computers (both laptops and desktop computers) have something called a UEFI system, which more or less replaces the "old" BIOS system, making it harder to create a dual-boot computer. It's not impossible, but experience has taught me that some of these systems require a user to access this UEFI mode every time he/she might want to change operating systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Grail Shadowblade Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Shouldn't it be able to run in dosbox as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 It's a Windows program, so you'd have to install Windows 3.1 (or 95, but that's more of a pain) inside of DOSBox, but in theory it should be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Dorgath Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 You shouldn't need to install Windows 3.1/95; dosbox should be able to run with Windows 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Grail Shadowblade Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Lilith means WIndows 3.1/95 installed inside dosbox, which is a bit specialised but doable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I sort of suspect the reverse isn't actually possible anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd Dorgath Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Ah, I get it. I misunderstood what DOSBox was able to do; I thought the earlier Windows support was already built into it. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd AvalonArray Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 64 bit versions of windows 10 had the files that allowed compatibility for 16 bit software removed. To work around this, I installed Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox, then installed Exile 3 inside windows 3.11... This is a faster way of being able to boot up and play exile 3. (I've had problems with playing exile 3 on virtual machines) I searched for a download of the Windows 3.11 3.5" floppy .img files online (there are several abandonware sites out there hosting them). There should be 6 .img files for Windows 3.11 and you can use 7-zip or winrar to open them up do dump all the files in a single Win31 folder. I used this install guide for Windows 3.11 in DOSBOX: vogons_Win3.x_install_guide_link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Thanks for the info AA. Let's keep this info in one thread rather than having two simultaneous threads about the same thing (and with duplicate posts). The other thread is newer, so I'm locking this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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