Reading old cd roms

littlerock

Having a clear out have come across a small cache of free cd roms. Some of the content looks quite interesting - Start Trek Academy Encyclopedia and a full mission against the Klingons; Ultimate race Pro; Armored Fist; Speedster on the Atlantic Trail; Yoda Stories demo; Rollercoaster Tycoon three full version

As you can tell from the versions these are pretty old. Still I have a no longer used but full working order PC Windows XP Pro full version and a CD reader sitting in a corner. Worth a try to see if they work? Or is there some way to run a simulation on my current Windows 7 Pro (which also has a cd reader/player)?

bluesnake

personally i would use virtualBox and install XP, as that old stuff may not know where some of my newer system files are, and i would not want to mess up my current set up for an old game.

If you are not using that old pc, then it could be worth a try. The difficulty is if it needs to download something extra for xp like old .net that ms may have pulled.

esuhl

They might run okay, or you might need to manually run them with Administrative privileges, or you might need to run them in compatibility mode:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/make-older-programs-run#1TC=windows-7

As above, if you have a spare XP licence, you could run the games in Virtualbox. Some games require direct access to the video card, so you might have problems.

https://www.virtualbox.org/