Railroad Tycoon II on Windows 11?

[CrownVic95]

Lately, on W10 startup, I'm getting more and more frequent messages from Big Brother Microsoft reminding me of W10's looming end of life, end of support next year. I couldn't care less about MS's end of support. Rather, I view it as a refreshing relief.....as it always was when we lived in a free country and clung to a now-known-to-be-silly notion that Bill Gates and his ilk valued American freedom for all as we did.

I ran W98SE, W2K, and XP for YEARS past their "end-of-life" with no problem or issue of any kind. 20+ years ago, there was no requirement to be a lemming, though most behaved like there was. It went without saying that the duration of your use of these classic OSs was an individual prerogative and decision. I wonder, though, if that will still be the case when Big Brother deems it time to herd ALL of the cattle W11-ward.

Looking ahead to that possibility.....that of Windows 10 being user-banned and thrown on the great PROGRESSIVE trash heap with the fossil fuel transportation that enabled our escape from the stone age, a critically important question emerges.......

Will RRTII run on W11? We've been lucky so far, as OSs come and go, but will we continue to be. Is anyone running RRTII on Windows11?

 

[jeffryfisher]

Sorry, I can't help you. My RT-2 (and SimCity-4 etc) runs on a dedicated old-game desktop machine that still boots Win-98 pro (where I suppressed a couple of troublesome updates too). It's well beyond its approved life, but it will never upgrade if I can help it.

[CrownVic95]

19 hours ago, jeffryfisher said:

Sorry, I can't help you. My RT-2 (and SimCity-4 etc) runs on a dedicated old-game desktop machine that still boots Win-98 pro (where I suppressed a couple of troublesome updates too). It's well beyond its approved life, but it will never upgrade if I can help it.

I hear ya, Jeffry, about hanging on to hardware from days gone by - much better days in many respects. I did the same for as long as I had room, but I've had to downsize to one room studio living in order to survive at a decent and safe living standard in this area. I'd more than fill a room with the hardware and software I've collected and used since 1977. Back in that fall,  I was selling Heathkit H8s.

I loved W98SE and ran it for several years into the XP era, on two or three different machines. Until something (I don't remember what, exactly) compelled me to move to W2K.

My W10 laptop is still doing fine after 7 years, so it could be my RRTII staple if need be. But in the order of today's new world, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to stealthily shut down and render all W10 machines past "end-of-life" unbootable. I don't really expect that to happen.....nor would it shock me if it did, either.

Thanks for chiming in.

[Silverback]

I run RTII on windows 11 and it works well. I use the version I bought from GOG.COM (very cheap) so I've not installed from original media (which I also have)

Not sure if/when Windows 12 will arrive - maybe around when 10 goes out of support.

[CrownVic95]

16 hours ago, Silverback said:

I run RTII on windows 11 and it works well.

 

Thank you - good to know.

I did not know of GOG.com, so looked at it, did some browsing there, and found a lots of nostalgia. Lots of the Microprose classics I remember so fondly and played for hours on end. I had forgotten that Sid Meier was one of the Microprose founders and that the original Railroad Tycoon was a Microprose game.

They had RT3 and Sid Meiers' Railroads listed there, too, both at 9.99 compared to RRTII's 5.99. So the best of the three by far (IMO) for long-term interest is the cheapest. 😉

Edited August 1 by CrownVic95
Fixed spelling error

[Silverback]

GoG has the railroad  games on offer at present. all 3 are 74% off   

[WolfOfCampscapel]

With the unofficial patch and the opengl wrapper mod it works fine on Windows 11.