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But...if If you are trying to get them Win9x software workingon a modern system, you should only be using this page as a last resort and would be better suited to read the [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com PC Gaming Wiki], which likely already has information on the game you want. If you don't have the operating system or game you want, you can download it from [https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems WinWorldPC].
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By the 90s, PCs with [[POS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#x86_CPUs|Intel CPUs]] started to break away from the mold of their 16-bit incarnations. It began with Intel taking the helm of the PC platform with the ATX specification, which departed from the PC AT and related models in a number of ways. The rise of PCs also brought with it the bundling of the Windows 9x family of operating systems, which were hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems consisting of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME; Windows 2000 was based on Windows NT.
Playing games released for these platforms on a modern system can be quite easy as programs can be run on later windows latest Windows without sacrifices in due to backwards compability.<ref>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938</ref> However this may change in the near future due to dropping 16 and 32-bit support from processors.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FpXimj1oA Intel finally to remove 16-bit REAL MODE and some 32b RINGS]<br/ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:X86#From_16-bit_and_32-bit_to_64-bit_architecture|In 2023, Intel proposed a major change to the architecture referred to as x86-S (with S standing for "simplification"), which aims to remove support for legacy execution modes and instructions]].</ref><ref>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938</ref>. For example if a program runs on Windows 7,there is a big chance it will work on Windows 10 and so on. If the program however doesn't know to work on Windows 7,Compability settings can be used to work with the aforementioned operating system,which will also work in Windows 10.
==[[Compatibility layers]]==
