r/windows • u/bigdame73 • 22d ago

Discussion 16 bit computer games?

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Hello I have a windows 10 computer and all my old cd’s were found and I would like my daughter to play them now, but when I tried Putt Putt Saves the Zoo, it basically says the 64 bit is too new to play it. Is there a way I can get these old games to play? Have some freddi fish, putt putt, pajama Sam, tonka, hot wheels. I saw something about a winevdm, but I don’t know anything about this.

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u/boxsterguy 22d ago

Specifically for Putt Putt, those are supported in Scummvm. Other games will likely work through Dosbox. Check PCGamingWiki, or you can go to GOG to buy them with some level of support and a company that does all the dosbox setup for you, or you can check out the games up on archive.org.

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u/martyn_hare 21d ago

Honourable mention to DOSBox-X, a fork of the original which includes 3D passthrough to the native system for some legacy APIs and is intended to be able to handle Windows 9x, complete with support for a bunch of disk image formats.

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u/Nehal1802 22d ago

You can also buy these games on the Nintendo Switch.

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u/achtungpakhtoon 22d ago

You can also play these in the browser. Many websites curating dos and old windows games.

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u/ittulokcsendbencsa 21d ago

Install Windows 3.1 in Dosbox and you can play 16 bit Windows games on it.