I’ve been testing to get some old software to work on my Vista operating system, and found couple of useful links:
Might come handy when testing older stuff with Vista.
I started coding games when I was a small kid with access to Commodore 64.
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The problem with MSVPC is that the emulated graphics card sucks, not exactly good for testing games…
~DtD
Gog (http://www.gog.com) sells old games for very cheap, and they are supposedly compatible with XP and Vista. I haven’t tried them myself though.
GOG.com uses DosBox to run those games, performance can be little iffy. I bought my copy of Stonekeep from there even though I have boxed copy (with that cool hologram skeleton). I got it running on my own before but GOG provided my with nice installer and pre-configured settings for DosBox enviroment. So it all works.