I downloaded an old PC game onto my laptop and had to use DOS Box to run it, because Windows 11 wouldn’t allow a 16-bit application to run.
Why is it that a much more powerful laptop can’t deal with software my PC had no problems with 20 years ago? Same thing with backwards-compatible video games.
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It’s not the hardware. It’s the OS. You kind of answered your own question there. It’s not that Win11 wouldn’t “allow” it, it’s that windows 11 no longer includes the code to allow 16-bit compatibility, because literally no one cares about that stuff anymore. By installing Dosbox you added that functionality back into your installed OS.
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