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Want to play a game on CD rom from the 90's Windows 10 will not work

So here is my problem. I have a newer laptop running the newest windows 10. I recently purchased a CD-Rom of a game I used to play in the 90's. The game is called The even more incredible machine. On the back it say compatible with ms-don 5.0 + or Windows 3.1+. My question is how to I get the game to work while running windows 10? When I put the disk in the error message pops up saying "This App can't run on your PC" Please advice. Thank you Lisa
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Playing the Game

this game is incredibly ancient, its made for MS-DOS 5.0, therefor it requires  a DOS environment or emulated dos environment to run

you have 2 options for playing this game

1. play it online

a. go here http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-even-more-incredible-machine-2dh/play-2dh

b. scroll down the page and follow the instructions shown in red below

2. play it on your computer with dosbox

a. first off put away your cd-rom, the game has been freely available for decades now

b. go here http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-even-more-incredible-machine-2dh

scroll down, download the DOS version, you may as well download the manual too

c. go download dosbox here http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/d. run the dosbox installer

e. locate the-even-more-incredible-machine.zip and extract it to drive c:\ (so that the path is c:\temim\)

starting the game

open up\temim folder and drag TIM.exe to the DOSBOX icon on your windows desktop

press alt+enter on your keyboard to make it fullscreen

when you exit the game type exit go close the dosbox window

Try a new version made by the original developers!

In 2013, Jeff Tunnell announced a new game, called Contraption Maker, that would be the spiritual successor to the Incredible Machine series. Contraption Maker was produced by Spotkin Games, a company founded by Jeff Tunnell, and featured the same developers of the original Incredible Machine. It was released through Steam for Windows and OS X on July 7, 2014.[2]

http://contraptionmaker.com/,  $6.99

happy gaming

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