Help me Tendo City, You're my Only Hope...

[A Black Falcon]

Vista isn't horrible and never has been. I think it's good and have liked it since the beginning.

I know I mostly skipped XP, but still, Vista isn't bad. I think a lot of the problem was people upgrading computers that weren't really powerful enough for it, while I got it with a brand new PC... and aside from the usual "some mostly older games don't work now" issues that happen with every new OS, and are fairly rare apart from the DOS issues which I think are as much or more NVidia's fault than Microsoft's, it's just fine. Aero Glass is really cool looking, too... :)

Also etoven, if he upgraded to 7 64-bit, as I said, the problem would be entirely unchanged. The problem is 64-bit OSes not supporting 16-bit executables, not anything about Vista, XP, or 7 in particular.

Maybe a virtual machine could help, if it was possible to install in one and then play in normal Windows and the game actually worked, because VMWare as far as I know does not support DirectDraw which is of course vital for games that require it, but otherwise, I don't know what can be done...