sted Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 Ive managed to get some 16 bit apps working on 64 bit but i find it very hit and miss usually miss
Arthur Posted October 6, 2011 Author Posted October 6, 2011 By some 16-bit apps, do you mean just their installers? No 16-bit code can run, except for recognized InstallShield and Acme installers (these are hard-coded in Wow64 to allow them to work). (Source)
sted Posted October 6, 2011 Posted October 6, 2011 Ive managed to get some 16 bit apps working on 64 bit but i find it very hit and miss usually miss sorry cant edit and meant ive managed to get some 16 bit apps running on x64 using cameyo and capturing them on a winxp pc
Arthur Posted October 7, 2011 Author Posted October 7, 2011 I thought it was impossible to run 16-bit apps on 64-bit Windows without resorting to VMs (or DOSBox)? What makes it all worse is that 64-bit Windows has all the same limits even though 64-bit Windows can't run 16-bit applications at all. When operating in 64-bit mode, x86-64 processors can't switch to 16-bit compatible mode. They can switch to 32-bit compatible mode, enabling the use of 32-bit software in a 64-bit operating system, and obviously they can use a 64-bit mode, but there's no 16-bit mode. This means that 64-bit Windows can't run DOS or 16-bit Windows software. If this is something that you really must do, you will have to use a virtual machine. (Source)
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