Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 165
True, but it doesn't help for Win32 Programs that have Win16 Installers. This is likely what GP is referring to; a lot of games of that era (And even for some time after) use 16 bit installers because, well, the publisher probably already had the license and didn't see the sense in paying for a new one. After all, there was no way to know back then how far (or close) 64-bitness was to be on a consumer machine, and even still that x64 would be done in such a way that 16 bitness was not doable.
Some good examples of 32 bit Apps with 16 bit Installers;
-AutoCAD R14 (Sure, it's old, but a lot of old drafting coots prefer it over newer versions, and reusing their existing version is far cheaper than paying the thousands of dollars for a new license.)
-X-Wing Alliance (Released in 1999, and still has a 16-bit installer!)
-Installers for some Wacom Tablet Drivers (Oooh, nothing makes me a sad panda quite like hardware being unusable because you don't have a driver)
Dosbox won't help you with these, alas. Perhaps XP mode in Windows 7 but I certainly don't have the money to spend on Ultimate. VM would work, with a required level of fanciness dependent on the software you're running, (At work, I can get by with using the free VMWare Server for AutoCAD R14 when I need it (Still have to code/debug old R14 LISP Expressions, sometimes things act a little different in the newer versions so testing in ACAD 2007 is never a sure thing.)
But, 3d Applications would require a fancier piece of VM software (Probably, say, Workstation, to do the D3D.) Lord knows how easy/hard it would be to get something like a joystick working with that.
Goodness, it's all the pain in the ass of running a Mac, without any of the smugness!