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Old 04-05-2008   #1
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Default Old Games not installing

Hi dudes and dudettes,

I am currently experianced trouble in trying to install several of my old games and encountering the same issue with all of them, namely the Setup.exe files all tend to bring up the ever so annoying error "Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application".

I have tried using the compatibility mode, but that doesn't work. I know these used to work on my very old system, but don't now . I am using CD images so the state of the disk is not the issue.

What could be wrong and is there a solution?

For those curious the games in question are Theme Park World and Moto Racer.

Thanks for your time,

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Hi Zendithos
What Operating System are you using?
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That's the rub, XP compatability allows ME,98, and some 95s

VISTA compatability allows XP and, that's it

That's a little fact, they omitted to tell you, when you bought VISTA
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Originally Posted by fisherman6 View Post
That's the rub, XP compatability allows ME,98, and some 95s

VISTA compatability allows XP and, that's it

That's a little fact, they omitted to tell you, when you bought VISTA
That's not true. It allows compatability modes for:
  • Server 2003
  • XP
  • 2000
  • NT 4.0
  • 98/ME
  • 95
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Originally Posted by Cowburn199 View Post
That's not true. It allows compatability modes for:
  • Server 2003
  • XP
  • 2000
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  • 98/ME
  • 95
OK I'll bite WHY? ( spoken as a never part with XP) until I'm dragged kicking and screaming.
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Unless that very old computer system was MS-DOS

That doesn't qualify as 'Very Old' . . . that's ANCIENT

Windows 3.1 that's 'Very Old'
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Hi sorry for not responding sooner, but I had though when subscribed to this thread it would email me of any replies came up. Never mind

My OS is XP
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