SWwitching between 32bit and 64 bit

[Wyngs]

I miss being able to play some of my old 32bit games on my new windows7 machine. I have the NVIDIA graphics card.

Someone has told me that I should be able to switch between 32bit and 64. I can't find anything about this. Is this possible, and is it simple?

Thanks in advance for any info.

[JJ 3000]

64 bit windows can run 32 bit programs.

What specific games are you having trouble with?

[Wyngs]

Civilization I. Actually goes back to DOS I think. But it played well on my XP 32bit.

I did try a couple of emulators for it, but neither was satisfactory.

Not sure I'll ever find a single-player game as addictive as that one again. I miss it. (grin)

[JJ 3000]

That's a 16 bit game. 64 bit Windows won't run 16 bit programs.

I did try a couple of emulators for it, but neither was satisfactory.

Have you tried Dosbox?
http://www.dosbox.com/

[Wyngs]

Yes I did try DOSBOX. Apparently that works well for a lot of people, but not everyone.

Ahh well, I guess it's time to move out of the stone age anyhow. (grin)

[Computer_Commando]

Try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, which is free.

[whiper-snaper]

ok there is a way that took me a year of changing things around to get it to work.
but i have found an easy way to get dos games to work.
this works with both win vista and win 7
i am not sure if it maters with vista but with win 7 there are two ways to do it if u have 64bit or 32bit
32bit way.
open windows explorer.
copy and past link in address box.
C:\Windows\System32
then locate DPLAYX.DLL.
this is y u are having issues it because it was renamed from dplay.dll to dplayx.dll.
so once u find it u need to make a copy of it and past it in system32 ant rename it DPLAY.DLL.
so now u should have 2 of the same files but with different names.
it is a bit different with 64 bit.
paste link in address box.
C:\Windows\SysWOW64
then locate dplayx.dll
it may be easyer to search for the file it the search box once u r in C:\Windows\SysWOW64
then u do the same think as before but make sure u keep the file in the  C:\Windows\SysWOW64 file as it wont work.
so copy and rename it and it should all be good with no need to download a dosbox.
hope this helps.
nick