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    Posted: 01 January 2017 at 8:39pm
How to run akabak? I tried compatibility modes, I tried dosbox. Didn't work. How to make it work on 64bit machine?
This stasys destroys me.

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Your best shout is to emulate XP using a VM on windows 7 or higher. Works fine in that. It is not so much the instruction set of the CPU, more the instruction set supported by the OS. Akabak is a 16 bit program.
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VM?
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Virtual machine.

Or you could make a bootable memory stick and put 32 bit xp or 98 on it.
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I can confirm it works fine with the standard Microsoft emulation VM, which if you have an XP serial is easily installed in windows 7 or above
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I've just got a new computer with Windows10 Pro which is 64-bit.

any way to run Akabak without getting hold of an XP serial number and all this palaver:

http://www.download3k.com/articles/How-to-add-an-XP-Mode-Virtual-Machine-to-Windows-10-or-8-using-Hyper-V-00770

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Yeah just download VirtualBox and an ISO of XP
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won't the xp installation need a serial - or can I get a cracked one?
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It will yeah, up to you how you go about that. You can buy OEM serial keys for any version of Windows for about £30 tops though.
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not tried Akabak but been able to run various legacy windows apps in linux mint / wine, including those that don't work in win7 / compatibility mode or as a VM in virtualbox. To run a 16 bit app you'll need a 32 bit wine prefix, and as wine is under regular development I'd recommend a dev release from wineHQ if wine supplied with your distro doesn't work.
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can I install a linux (ubuntu) virtual machine on my Windows10 PC and then run Wine from Linux? Or do I just need to pay for an old windows installation?
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Akabak-ception

For all the ballache of doing that, I'd just pay £15 for an OEM XP license serial
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