Finished putting my tower back together. Back in the day when we used to install all of our games from (CD/DVD)Roms, I accumulated quite a few. Enough to fill up a 72 cd wallet. Plus another one for drivers, backups, and other programs. And of course there the few items I had to keep in the original jewel cases because of product codes. And being the digital pack rat, I had to reinstall everything every time I wiped my system. Which was quite regular since I liked to tinker.
And then my motherboard gave up the ghost in 2014. This was when I bought my HP tower. With it came Windows 7/Windows 8.1/ and eventually Windows 10. And they were all 64-bit OSes. And The Anti-Christ disabled secdrv.sys so a good chunk of my games wouldn’t install, and if they did they wouldn’t run. My workaround at the time was to use a Windows ME/Windows XP virtual machines (at the time VMWare player already had 3d acceleration supported). Eventually I started acquiring my games digitally, through Steam, then EA Games (Origin at the time), Ubisoft Connect, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Sometimes I was able to digitally acquire what I had on CD-ROM (like my Star Wars games). And some I just gave up on trying to get them to work.
But recently I’ve been finding success with getting my 16-bit installers to work with Windows 11, finding co-cd patches, and using dgVoodoo so now most of my old games can now be played. Even on Windows 11. Which is how I now have 4 different version of Monopoly and 2 Battleships installed. I think I only have 4-5 CD-Roms that I can’t figure out. Yet.
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