[Stryke 9]

I just DLed a copy of Battlecruiser 3000, a space-sim-type thing for Windoes 95/98. Now it's giving me crap about my OS being "inadequate" to run the software, and refusing to install! Any ideas? That's the full message I get right there, my OS is Windows 2000, and as far as I can tell this should be running perfectly. Slight OS corruption by a botched hardware modification wouldn't do this, would it? Everything else runs fine, other than Explorer.

[CP5670]

BC3000 was known to be full of bugs, so it might be the game itself that is messed up...

[DragonClaw]

It said it was made for Windows 95/98... and you fully expect a program that program to run on Windows 2000?  Sometimes that works, but most of the time it doesn't(least thats the way my experiences went, and why i switched back to ME[don't diss ME, I haven't had a crash on this thing in ages])

[Stryke 9]

Windows is backwards compatible- in my experience with programs, with the exception of XP, if it was made for two versions of Windows earlier than the one you are using, it will function, while it won't if you are running domething for a later version of Windows than you have. I have no trouble with 3.1 stuff, and ALL of my software, with three exceptions I know of, was made for Win95.

And I've got version 2, which is supposed to be the debugged freeware.

[vadar_1]

Not everything works on later versions of windows... XP wont run ****. It dosn't run warcraft: orcs and humans, decent, Hover!, Virtua Fighter, X-wing, TIE Fighter... etc, all the good dos/win3.1 games.

[Stealth]

but most things work on LATER versions of windows... you hardly see a "compatible with Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP"... usually it's just "compatible with Windows 95/98/NT 4.0+" or something like that!

but they usually work on later versions


have you tried formatting the hard drive then reinstalling the OS?

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I just DLed a copy of Battlecruiser 3000, a space-sim-type thing for Windoes 95/98. Now it's giving me crap about my OS being "inadequate" to run the software, and refusing to install!

Perhaps it's being cruelly correct and just saying 'windows sucks'


I personally love win2K but it's really really bad at handling games. That's why I dual boot it with a really minimal install of win95b which still works fine with most of the stuff I want to play (FS2 and CS basically). My framerates in counterstrike are a little over 4FPS in win2K but running the same install from win95 gives me 20+fps.

I've never found a workaround.

[Stryke 9]

Y'know, it's true. FreeSpace is the only game I've ever gotten to work even acceptably well on this computer, though most games are borderline functional... something about games, I guess.

I smell an excuse to switch to Linux and an emulator. Whee!

[Snakeseyes]

Are you sure that the game is for Windows? I played it but it was a long time ago, and I remember it running in DOS.

[Eishtmo]

Found your problem:

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I just DLed a copy of Battlecruiser 3000

[Blue Lion]

Eish, change your sig

[CP5670]

Found your problem:

That's what I was thinking as well.

[Stryke 9]

All power to the crappy games!

Man, damned Windows won't clear without taking everything else... it's like a virus!

[Galemp]

Hey! Somebody else plays Hover! Rock on!!
Wish they had thrown in multiplayer support and a level editor, though.

[Thorn]

2000 is recognised by most programs as being NT...
Older EA games in particular...
Need for Speed 3 wont install at all, because it says I'm running NT, which it doesnt support at all... XP on the other hand, can run anything....

[Stryke 9]

Ah- yup. It practically IS NT, anyway. Ive noticed all of thirteen total differenced between the two systems, and most of them aren't that big. (2000 is less stable being the biggest one, and the names are the second biggest)

[Eishtmo]

Originally posted by Blue Lion
Eish, change your sig

Why?  Didn't you see the memo?

[Blue Lion]

No obviously....but that has changed since I posted that