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[Eagle of Fire]

Windows Vista and Windows 7 added a new twist to old games gaming: 64 bits versions.

If you use a 64 bits version, they are not compatible with old 16 bits programs. That mean any game made for Windows 3.x won't work since Windows 3.x was 16 bits.

From experience though, I never had a problem running a game flagged as XP compatible on my XP computer. That doesn't mean that I don't prefer to run games which are also both XP and DOSBox compatible in DOSBox though...

[BRemund]

Hmm, so it wont work huh. Bummer.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by BRemund

Hmm, so it wont work huh. Bummer.

NOT what he said. He meant that if a game runs in DOS (indicated by the DOS compatibility icon), running it in DOSBox has a better chance to work than running it in Windows. Further, the "Windows" compatibility icon actually refers to Windows XP rather than all Windows versions.
Vista and 7 have effectively dropped backwards compatibility with DOS programs - DOSBox or a virtual machine of some kind are the only way to run them.

Same goes for compatibility with 16-bit versions of Windows ( 3.x and earlier ), which is what some of the Windows-compatible games on this site were released for. However, you can run Windows 3 in DOSBox. This should help you in doing so.

[BRemund]

Awesome, I will get it to work. I am a little slow with some of this stuff though.