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my query is if anyone knows where I can download the original Prince of Persia for PC, that works on Windows 7. I had it, but for Windows XP. The other day I tried it on Windows 7 and it didn't work anymore even with compatibility mode.

regards, Thank you

Guru35
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Do you mean that the 1989 game Prince of Persia failed to run?

I do not think there are multiple versions of this game for PC out there. This is a 16-bit DOS game. It's likely your Windows-7 installation is the 64-bit edition on a 64-bit machine, while the windows-XP installation was 32-bit software (which may or may not have been on a 64-bit cpu).

The transition to 64-bit has broken certain aspects of compatibility with old 16-bit applications. Most games from the 16-bit era are troublesome to natively run on windows.

Luckily for you, almost all such games were not actually written for windowsnote: Instead, devs cut out the middleman and wrote directly for the underlying operating system: DOS. And we have some very good emulators available for this. Have you tried running the game using DOSBox?

note: At the time, windows had poor game support, and the hardware was too slow to share resources between the desktop and the game.

aphid
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  • Yes, exactly I mean the 1989 version (that year it came out for the Apple II), I think in 1990 it came out for DOS PCs. my version of windows 7 is 32 bit and it gives error. In Windows XP it worked. I have never used DOSBox, I will try it.

    Thank you.

     – Guru35 Jul 27 '20 at 18:03
  • After having had his perfectly timed Karateka Re-Coded to other OS, Prince of Persia was written so lean and pedantically commented that porting it from the native Apple II it was written on and for to any other OS was a piece of cake, Jordan Mechner says. – Trish Feb 07 '21 at 12:10