Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.22 and Windows 64-bit systems

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello,

it is possible to run old 16-bit-chess applications for Windows like Ziggurat http://www.chesspraga.cz/download/win16/ziggurat.rar
successfully with Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.22 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads on Windows 7/8.1/10 operation systems with 64-bit?

What are your experiences? Or is additionally an installed Windows 32-bit OS necessary too?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/hel ... 16-bit-pro

Best wishes,
Norbert

[Andres Valverde]

It doesn't run in my system : Windows 7 64 bit installed on VirtualBox 5.1 for Linux . Windows 7 64bit doesn't support 16 bit apps.

Curious : it does run very well with Wine under Linux 64bit. Linux supports better 16bit Windows apps than Microsoft ??

[tmokonen]

It doesn't run in my system : Windows 7 64 bit installed on VirtualBox 5.1 for Linux . Windows 7 64bit doesn't support 16 bit apps.

You can probably run Ziggurat on Windows 3.1 within DOSBox within Windows 7 64 bit within VirtualBox 5.1 within Linux. Of course, it would have more layers than an onion, and is just as likely to make you cry as that onion.

[Tibono]

Hi,

I am using W7 64bits unable to run 16bits Dos programs.

I confirm Ziggurat (1992 version) runs fine with DosBox + Win3.1
Setting up Windows 3.1 to run with DosBox is easy. You should be able to find necessary stuff here: http://www.win3x.org/win3board/

Another option is indeed to install an Oracle VirtualBox machine. It may be a solution for programs requiring to be installed with a version-sensitive installer. I managed to install a Win98SE, this is a bit tricky - particularly to get an acceptable screen definition, you need to find specific drivers. All stuff downloadable from the net but be aware it will be time consuming...

Regards, Eric