Anyone here who knows a thing or 2 about PC programming I need assistance. I have an older program that is apparently a 16 bit program. I need to somehow get it converted to 32 bit to run on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Any ideas? The program in question is called Sonic Screen Saver. It came packaged in the PC game Sonic and Knuckles for Win 95. I get a message saying it is incompatible with my OS on both my Desktop and laptop. Both run Home Premium 64 bit. I also have an older desktop from the Pentium 4 days running 7 Starter which is 32 bit. (Custom install with modified installer ISO.) The program installed on it and runs flawlessly. This tells me the program is therefore a 16 bit one and is not corrupted. Reason I say this is because 64 bit OS lost support for 16 bit programs but the 32 bit version still supports them. I'm ready to supply the files in question and offer payment for anyone wanting to try this. I know a 32 bit version will work with my 64 bit OS. Any takers? Or anyone able to point me to the proper compilers to make this so?
Alternately, if there is a way to make Win 7 64 bit support a 16 bit program, I'll take that too. Just remember that this is a screen saver.
EDIT: Not sure if the actual screen saver itself is 16 bit or if it just the installer that's 16 bit. The control panel for adjusting settings seems to have that 16 bit window look to it so I'm not sure...
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