GAMING
COMPATIBILITY ISSUE
IN WINDOWS 10
An old game called Train Dispatcher
doesn’t work properly on my Windows 10
laptop – nothing happens when I click
Permits or Trains. Yet it works perfectly
on my Windows 10 desktop. Can you
help please?
Gerald GibsonWe were unable to replicate the issue
on any of our Windows 10 machines,
suggesting that it’s an incredibly
rare glitch. Instead, we offered
Gerald the following workaround:
set up a virtual machine running
Windows 95. To do that, download
and install VirtualBox (www.
virtualbox.org) and then download
the free Windows 95 virtual hard
drive (https://archive.org/details/
windows_95_vdi). Open VirtualBox
and choose Machine > New. Name it
Windows 95, set its type to
‘Microsoft Windows’ and its version
to ‘Windows 95’ and allocate it
256MB of R AM. Choose ‘Use an
existing virtual hard disk file’, click
the button to open a new dialog box,
then click Add to select Windows_95.
vdi. Make sure it’s highlighted and
click Choose followed by Create.
Select your virtual machine, and
then click Start. Click ‘Cancel’ when
prompted for a network password,
then work through any other dialog
boxes until the desktop appears.
Choose Devices > Optical Drives >
[drive letter] to install the program
via CD; if you have a download file,
choose Devices > Optical Drives >
‘Create ad hoc VISO’. Locate the
folder containing the installer using
the upper panes, then drag the file
into the bottom pane and click OK.
Now open My Computer and double-
click the CD drive where you’ll find
the file is available – just double-
click it to run the installer.
Nick PeersMAC
SLOW IMAC
Since upgrading it, my iMac is slower
and often shows a spinning beach ball,
although it has 8GB of memory and ahowto
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