You can circumvent the compatibility problem by using the Compatibility Fix infrastructure to target a specific application fix, for a particular application (and typically for particular versions of that application). Quoting Microsoft, the application compatibility infrastructure works like this: (UPDATE: Use my shim instead: xwtie95v2.zip) It doesn’t feel right for me to use it unless I can understand how it works-I should have figured this out in the first place! I’m stupid! In 2004, someone did! Craig Perry created a compatibility shim for both TIE Fighter and X-Wing. I knew, over the years, Microsoft was releasing new application shims for XP, and I had intended to try the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT). As with Duke Nukem, I had hoped someday I’d get it going on a leftover copy of Windows 98. I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of the install CD. When Lucasarts said that the game would never work on XP and would never be fixed, I figured that was it. TIE Fighter wouldn’t work on Windows XP for anything I tried. This game was released for DOS, when I first played it, and then on a CD collection for Windows 95, when I played it some more. I was delighted to learn I could get my most favorite game working, Star Wars: TIE Fighter. I’ve mentioned before how I was looking forward to trying many of my old games on Windows 7.
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