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I cannot start Pong60 and Odyssey, dowloaded from here, under Windows7. I had no problems with it using Windows XP.
What do I have to do?
thanx

You should try using compatability mode within Windows 7. Search Google for how to on Windows 7 features.

First, thank you for your answer.
I tried every possible configuration in compatibilitiy settings, from windows 95 to windows xp, from run in 256 colors up to Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.
there is always the same pop-up: 16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem - this system does not support fullsreen mode. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

do you have any idea?

Im not absolutely sure but does this possibly require dos box? or would that work to emulate it? i don't have the time now but later ill see if i can figure something out my laptop later which also has windows 7

DOSBox is a good idea. You can download it in our emulators section. It is fairly easy to use.

Alright, done some research and this is what ive found.

First: For pong 60. I tried to get it to run with D-box (soooo much simpler, thank you for the find) and I received an error. So I decided to actually try just dos box and see if that would change anything. On the dosbox.com website I noticed compatibility which I clicked on thinking it would give more info on possibly running on windows 7 64x (which ive had troubles just because its 64bit before). Instead I discovered that it was a list of compatible games. So I clicked on P for Pong and scrolled down the list. Pong60 is not listed but THERE IS a Pong V 6.0. My thoughts are that the Pong60 = Pong V 6.0. Either way its listed as broken which means that dosbox will not emulate it. So unless you have a very old pc or run a virtual machine (not a bad idea for this site) your kinda out of luck for pong. Thats what I gathered.
http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=P

Second: For the odyssey.tap file (I believe thats the one you have) I tried about 8 different emulators, from this site and from others, and the best I could get was this on the WinVICE-2.2-x64.zip emulator. C64. This is the farthest I got:

When I hit the space bar like it says all that happened was it sat at this screen no matter how long I waited:



So I believe I answered your first question as best I could but I dont really know much about the commodore (yet) and so my knowledge on this topic is quite limited. Perhaps another member could either confirm what I did or provide more.

Cheers Mate