FAZ 
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ive found an old flight simulator in the loft, but its for windows 95 / 98, is there anyway of playing them on my windows 7 laptop? 
  
im not very computer minded, i dont even know if my grpahics card is too new/ powerful :/
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gooner_47 
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/make-older-programs-run#1TC=windows-7
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pow 
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No problem normally, might require some dlls from a 98 disk
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Dom 
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Virtualising (using VirtualBox or VMWare) is another option and gives you a little more control over some of the hardware presented to the Win95/98 install - obviously you need to obtain a copy of Win95/98.
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