Problems installing old games on a new computer.

[tehweave]

So I recently bought an Asus Eee netbook. I know they're really only meant for internet and word processing, but my girlfriend has one and she runs a couple of old games on it. So, I decided to try and install Warcraft 2 on mine. It gave me an error message right after clicking install:

"This system does not support fullscreen mode."

Okay, I think I get it... The netbook has a widescreen monitor, and this game is from 1995 before 'widescreen' was the norm. So maybe it just can't play old-school games on it.

But wait! I am able to install and play Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 on it... So why can't I do warcraft 2? Can someone help me here?

I've got Windows 7 Starter with an Intel Atom CPU 1.6 GHz processor, 1 gig of memory and a 250 gig hard drive. It's a 32 bit operating system.

 

[Tharwen]

Right click the application.

Properties.

Compatibility.

Run in compatibility mode: (Try Windows 95, then if that doesn't work just test the others even though that's unlikely to work)

If that doesn't fix it, it probably will not work on Windows 7.

 

[Durxom]

Right click the application.

Properties.

Compatibility.

Run in compatibility mode: (Try Windows 95, then if that doesn't work just test the others even though that's unlikely to work)

If that doesn't fix it, it probably will not work on Windows 7.

Try doing what this guy said, but from what I checked Warcraft 2 is a MS-DOS game, meaning it won't run on Windows XP or higher (they discontinued DOS after 98 i think..), so you will probably have to download a program called DOS Box...I haven't tried it myself, but it apparently helps you run those kind of games

 

[Tharwen]

Right click the application.

Properties.

Compatibility.

Run in compatibility mode: (Try Windows 95, then if that doesn't work just test the others even though that's unlikely to work)

If that doesn't fix it, it probably will not work on Windows 7.

Try doing what this guy said, but from what I checked Warcraft 2 is a MS-DOS game, meaning it won't run on Windows XP or higher (they discontinued DOS after 98 i think..), so you will probably have to download a program called DOS Box...I haven't tried it myself, but it apparently helps you run those kind of games

Yeah, I've tried DOSbox, and it worked for Lemmings.

To the OP: If you use DOSbox, it's not that hard; you just have to learn the code to navigate to the application and run it. Also, you may need to download a special DOSbox version to run it.

 

[Wintermoot]

run in compatibility mode should work like a charm or play another game
EDIT or run Dosbox if you have the know-how

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Try doing what this guy said, but from what I checked Warcraft 2 is a MS-DOS game, meaning it won't run on Windows XP or higher (they discontinued DOS after 98 i think..), so you will probably have to download a program called DOS Box...I haven't tried it myself, but it apparently helps you run those kind of games

It's been a while since I've popped the disc in the drive, but I could have sworn it was for windows 95, windows 98, and mac os -- or at least the battle.net edition was. If that's the case, it won't work in dosbox, and it may be a 16 bit program. If you're running it on a 64 bit OS, a 16 bit program won't run natively. However, if you have an old copy of windows lying around -- especially windows 95 or 98 -- you can install it on a virtual machine. The official Microsoft VM is free, and emulates a Pentium II based system, which will easily run the game, and pretty much any modern computer can handle it.

Edit: I have a Windows 95 VM I use for the occasional 16 bit windows game. It took a bit of trying to set up, but it works like a charm now.
Edit Edit: I just checked my old disc. It's for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Power Mac. It's almost definitely a 16 bit program.
Edit Edit Edit: I didn't notice that you had a 32 bit processor. Compatibility mode should get it running, and there's also the chance that you have an older version that was meant for dos, so dosbox might also be an option. However, that "fullscreen not supported" message sounds like it doesn't want to go fullscreen, as opposed to windowed. When that game was out, widescreen wasn't really an option, so it wouldn't be fullscreen as opposed to widescreen.