Meh. I have gotten old Programs like Kasparov's Gambit, Grandmaster Chess etc. However Power chess I could not get to work. Still do not know why for sure. IMHO a 95 machine is probably the best way to go not worth it. I did find an old program that I like not chess related, called Starseige by Dynamix that had all the work done for me That I had been searching for a workable version at Dropbox that now works in win 10. Maybe I get lucky if I can find Power chess at such a site.
Interesting is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJW-sY36icM Again. Too lazy. Rather don't wanna spend the brain time over this.
Meh. I have gotten old Programs like Kasparov's Gambit, Grandmaster Chess etc. However Power chess I could not get to work. Still do not know why for sure. IMHO a 95 machine is probably the best way to go not worth it. I did find an old program that I like not chess related, called Starseige by Dynamix that had all the work done for me That I had been searching for a workable version at Dropbox that now works in win 10. Maybe I get lucky if I can find Power chess at such a site.
My guess is that you won't find a workable version of Power Chess. Regarding Starsiege, there's a Sierrahelp patch that patches the original retail CD so that it works on modern Windows machines. The Dropbox version that you got is probably just the patched retail CD. Afaik, there's no such patch for Power Chess. So, given that Power Chess is rated "garbage compatible" for WINE, it looks to me like there's only two choices remaining: a VM setup on modern Windows, or real Win 95/98 hardware.
This is what I used for Kasparov's gambit http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/
Oh yeah, I've used d-fend reloaded. It's a nice front-end for DOSBox.
PowerChess98 can be run on VirtualBox in Windows 98. I am using it and it runs fine. The voice of Natacha La Ferriere is lovely and the program is actually a good tutor. I even extracted the wave files of the program and I am using them in LucasChess, ChessBase and DGT RabbitPlugin. Gives an extra touch to playing!
Indeed. I am running win 10. 64 bit. That is my issue methinks."
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I also run Win 10 64bit. But VirtualBox runs on Win 10 64bit, and then virtualizes a Windows 98.
In case you are interested, I made a little patch to make it run on newer Windows Versions:
https://github.com/leecher1337/pchess
In case you are interested, I made a little patch to make it run on newer Windows Versions:
So in the link I download a patch and insert it in what file? I have power chess 98 installed on my windows 11 PC and of course I get the missing dll file message (I think that was the message) to prevent game play.
Hmmm. The original guestion was from 2013 and the OP probably isn't around anymore, but anyway.
Windows 95 programs run quite well in linux (eg. mint or ubuntu) using Wine. So I would recommend installing linux in a VM instead of trying to find a windows 95 .
Wine can run many programs really well from windows 95, 98, 2000, xp, vista and 7. And ofcourse many windows 10 programs work too
Also many old sierra games work in DosBox too. (if they are secretly dos programs that pretent to be windows programs)
WINE inside a Linux VM might work, but that's two layers of emulation (or non-emulation in the case of WINE, haha), so it would probably be a significant performance hit. You'd be better off running Linux natively (might have to dual boot) with WINE running in Linux.
However, running WINE in Linux is still a bit of a security concern, although the risk might be acceptable. The bad news is that I just checked the WINE compatibility list, and Power Chess 98 is listed as "Garbage" compatible.