Legal websites can be used to do illegal things. No emulation is needed, all that is needed is to intercept 16-bit system calls and translate them to 32 or 64-bit ones, same as with old unsupported directx. That means you can still run 16-bit programs on 32-bit versions of windows 10. They arbitrarily removed it from 64-bit versions of windows.

But for some reason, it is only present in 32-bit versions of windows. This is why you have a 'system' folder and a 'system32' folder. It was introduced way back when they first switched to 32-bit. There IS ALREADY a 16-bit compatibility layer in Windows 32-bit. WOW64 means 'Windows on Windows 64', which is a system that lets Windows programs (32-bit) run on Windows 64. What kind of ignorant nonsense is this? There is no such thing as 'WOW32' or 'WOW16'. WOW64 handles 64-bit programs WOW32 handles 32-bit programs.And WOW16 handles 16-bit programs. And the abstraction everything runs through sooner or later is the WOW system. That means that games don't actually interact directly with Windows, to keep things neat, tidy, and secure. Narf_the_Mouse: Windows uses an abstraction layer to run games. Actually that wouldn't be a half bad idea. but as discussed it will be impossible to get that running again short of virtualizing a Windows 95. The Network Edition would be something if that was available. Do you see what I meant by asking whether this Windows 3.1 specific version had any improvements? It is inconsequential anyway because it won't be available. I was interested in whether it had any improvements apart from the additonal zoom setting, which is not much and knowing the DOS version would not really improve anything, since I remember playing Sim City 2000 only in the highest zoom setting (the others were not really helpful to me).

If there was a version specifically for Windows 3.1 it must be different from either one of the others. Until yesterday I was only aware that there were versions for DOS and for Windows 95 (and Mac and OS/2 and several consoles and Amiga, yes) of Sim City 2000. But apparently there was a pre-network edition, which was neither designed for DOS nor for Windows 95 but for Windows 3.1. I also understand that the network edition was Windows-only, but it was specifically Windows 9x-only (there's a difference between Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x, I suppose you know that). Might be a misunderstanding: I understand that the network edition has several improvements over the version for DOS. P.S.: Oops, you meant the network edition? This was AFAIK only windows, not DOS, (and therefore not GoGs version). Sha_n_Dra: If you read this topic, you already should have your answer: YES, it does )

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