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Originally Posted by wodin
A long time ago in a galaxy far away you used to be able to copy sol.exe into the program files folder and it would run on later versions of Windows or on your work machine if your employer conveniently forgot to include it.
Somewhere around NT or perhaps 2000 they included code to thwart that by having the exe check the windows version. They also added a .dll to reduce having to duplicate code in each game. So no Virginia, you can't just copy the executable from Win7 to Win10 and expect it to work. That's what the hack at http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what...-in-windows-8/ is about. |
I've done it using WinXP games onto Windows 7 installation, and again using WinXP and Windows 7 games onto Windows 10. And they still all work perfectly on Windows 7 and 10 without doing anything special or downloading any cracked/hacked/modified version of the games. You do need to copy the cards.dll from the WinXP games, and the entire directories of MS Games as I said above, each subdirectory is its own game and includes its own .dll for the Windows 7 games.
There's really nothing special to do at all to get the original games to work, you don't need any modified version.