Timeline for Is it possible to safely play over network with an old pc?
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| Feb 5, 2023 at 12:15 | comment | added | MoonLite | The laptop needs some specific drivers and will just not work properly on windows 8 or 10. I was happy the recovery still produced a working OS. Also sometimes things just work better on an old OS. So assume the OS will not change. | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 19:57 | comment | added | vidarlo | @schroeder Interesting! Thanks for the excellent examples. Ironically it seems that the DRM solution is what created problems for AOE2? | |
| Feb 4, 2023 at 17:27 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | "Planescape: Torment" and Age of Empires 2" come to mind straight away. You need to run them on an emulator. Lots of other games designed for XP or earlier require emulators, depending on how they were programmed. It's tons easier if you just run WinXP to play them. Yes, I am that old that I have those games, like them, and still want to play them ... ["low low low looow ..."] | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 23:27 | comment | added | vidarlo | Do you have an actual example of such a game? | |
| Feb 3, 2023 at 23:10 | history | answered | vidarlo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |