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Aug 11, 2010 Most often the trick to running 32-bit software in Windows 64 is to simply run it. 64-bit Windows has broad 32-bit compatibility built in.

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@NathanAdams, again, you are simplifying things for yourself. Amiga Captive Manual. There do exist tools that may run just fine. For example, I have some simple command-line tools that are 16-bit like old.com files or programs compiled with Pascal for DOS that do things like echo without a newline, move the cursor, set text colors, print the date/time, parse a file, etc.

These work just fine and while some functions may now be built-in, many/most are not and it is not always feasible (or even possible in some cases) to update and/or re-compile them for 32- or 64-bit. – Oct 23 '12 at 4:12 •.

This is the same as Windows Vista or Windows 7. Blankey Jet City Last Dance Zip. If you have a 64bit version of Windows, you cannot run 16bit applications. If you have a 32bit version of Windows, you can run 16bit applications. Workaround for 64bit systems: In Windows 7 64bit you could just download the Virtual PC XP Mode and run your 16bit application there.

I'm not sure if Windows 8 also provides an XP Mode (I don't think so) but (some versions?) of Windows 8 come with Hyper-V support. So you could easily run e.g. Windows XP in your Hyper-v to have 16bit support.