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As the title says, is there a way of running a x64 bit program on a 32 bit system ? If not, is there an emulator or is there a way of upgrading from 32 bit to 64 bit for free? NOTE: I am using Windows 10.
If your computer has 64 bit hardware (basically everything from the last decade) then you can install a 64 bit OS. DavidPostill's answer is extremely complete on that. Note that this means a full reinstallation. You can not change the windows OS from 32 bit to 64 bit. You will have to completely replace it.
I have just acquired an 8700 which came with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit installed on an SSD. I need to replace this installation with the 32-bit version of Win10, as this will be the simplest solution to supporting a string of 16-bit legacy applications. I have downloaded an ISO image of the Windows10 32-bit installer from Microsoft, but what I thought would be a simple re-installation has turned into a frustrating couple of days and no results (I would be a complete mess if it weren't for the fact that the SSD makes restarts bearably quick!).
I've seen threads here suggesting that booting from a 32-bit image isn't always possible in 64-bit hardware. The only way I have managed to get the installer image to boot is to turn off UEFI, and then the installer barfs because "the disk is of GPT type".
All good. The installation resulted in Win10 Home on the PC. I entered my Win10 Pro key and it rejected it, I then found out about the trick of upgrading to Win10 Pro with the internet disconnected and using the temporary key VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T and then entering my own key and activating it.
I have the same problem. 50% of my software is 16bit based and the cost to upgrade is 10x the cost of the dell desktop. I bought an Inspirion 6 months ago and still can't load any 32 bit os. I have installed a VM, and dos emulator. Neither work as good as a real 32 bit os. I should have just returned the computer to costco. This has been a real pain. Dell tech support is pretty useless since they off loaded it to India. They have no idea how to install an OS even going so far as to tell me that I can't upgrade win 10 64 to win 11. If you found a way to install win 10 32 bit on a uefi 64 bit pc, please let me know.
I have tried that approach. I get inspirion 3880 No bootable device found error. There is no legacy boot option in 3880 bios. I can boot using same thumb drive if it has 64 bit os. I really don't care about 64 bit s/w as all of mine are 16 or 32 bit. i have also been trying using modified windows 10 64 bit s/w which allows me limited 16 bit ntvdm. But it is not nearly as good as real ntvdm on a 32 bit machine. The best option is to downgrade from win 10 64 to win 10 32. win 11 does not offer 32 bit so I will never upgrade. Having only 4gb of memory vs 12gb is a choice I can live with if I can get my 16 bit apps to work.
I have 2 Dell Precision T3500. Both run win 7 32bit and win 10 32 bit. It is fairly easy to plop in a new ssd and install windows 32 bit or 64 bit on these machines. The software I use is 16 & 32 bit. The amount of time required to convert custom coding in dbase III to windows version is over 80 hrs. Not to mention the cost of windows version of dbase. Buying another 2010 or earlier dell doesn't make sense. I also use microsoft briefcase to sync between win 10 laptop and t3500. briefcase does not exist in win 10 nor 11. briefcase while slower than various sync programs does make it easy to update many files while checking each file to ensure master file is not overwritten.
there are a lot of users out there that really need to run 16 bit s/w on newest machines. So many in fact that there are communities out there trying to modify win 10 64 bit to run 16 bit apps. NTVDM was removed by microsoft in win 10 64 bit. But they could have left it in and there would be no problem. So right now I have 2 pc side by side. One win 10 64bit that runs only 1 program cuz that company won't run on win 7, and the t3500 that runs all others on win 7. Also... the text display is different between win 7 and 10. with 10 being blurry to my eyes. I run quicken, quickbook word, excel , edge all 32 bit all on win 7 32 ,bit. No need to rent s/w from microsoft when I own these. Cloud storage is great if you always have internet. But transferring 10gb of data every day to the cloud is very slow. And when you go to destinations w/no internet, you are out of luck w/o programs and data on the local machine. All of my email is downloaded, worked on offline ,then uploaded to server.
Hello, I'm currently using an M2 MacBook Air, but I have an older 2019 intel MacBook Air that currently runs MacOS Mojave. I'm thinking of upgrading it to MacOS Monterey. I understand that operating systems later than MacOS Mojave no longer support 32 bit applications, but read somewhere that getting the 32 bit libraries back when or after upgrading could re-enable 32 bit support. I'd like to know how I can get the 32 bit libraries back if I upgrade my older MacBook Air from MacOS Mojave to MacOS Monterey, please. Thanks.
You are getting confused here by 32 bit support. The 32bit app support (or library support) you are referencing in regards to macOS 10.15+ refers only to macOS apps, not Windows' apps. Codeweavers' CrossOver software and the other WINE based apps you are using or referring are 64bit macOS apps. 32 bit macOS library support is not needed in these cases.
CrossOver does indeed support 32 bit Windows apps even on Apple Silicon M-series Macs, however, they are likely to have performance issues. From a quick search, CrossOver and WINE must utilize wine32on64 to allow it.
A lot of things can impact Windows app compatibility when using WINE. A new WINE version may easily break something that has worked previously (perhaps even years). A macOS update can change the behavior of the system which could greatly impact WINE. A different version of the Windows app may greatly affect compatibility & performance as well. This is why some WINE based apps allow you to install other older versions of WINE. If you find a version of WINE which allows a particular Windows app to run, then you should note that exact version of WINE and any tricks/options you had to enable or configure to make it work. Then do not update that version of WINE since a later version could break something.
Getting Windows software running using WINE in any of its forms is complex, challenging, and always changing. It is great when it works for a particular app, but many times the Windows software will have issues or not work at all.
Here is a good thread on the Codeweavers' CrossOver forum which explains some of the compatibility issues and performance differences for Windows software using various systems (Intel Mac running macOS 10.14 or earlier, Intel Macs running macOS 10.15+, and Apple Silicon M-Series Macs).
AFAIK, there is no option to allow running macOS 32bit software on any Mac running macOS 10.15+. WINE is not meant or able to run macOS apps. If you want to run older macOS 32 bit apps, then you need to run an older version of macOS 10.14 or earlier as the others have already mentioned.
If it is just Windows apps running on a Mac, then you should just stick with what has worked in the past. Trying to run Windows 32 bit apps on macOS 10.15+ is different since another layer had to be added to WINE for it to work, and Apple Silicon M-series Macs changes things even more. Each of these major system change makes it more likely that some Windows apps may have issues on a later system or OS when you may have had it working perfectly fine on Mojave. This is far from a simple process. People have been struggling with Windows software using WINE from the beginning even on a non-Apple PC. WINE has come a long way, but it is far from perfect. Like I said before, it is great when a Windows app works using WINE, but it is far from being guaranteed.
Hi BobHarris, thanks for your response. The 32-bit apps I have are mostly games that were designed to run on Windows from Windows 3.1 up to Windows XP. They run perfectly well on MacOS Mojave using Winebottler. On MacOS Ventura, unfortunately, many of these programmes don't seem to run using Wineskin Winery. The reason I want to upgrade my old computer from MacOS Mojave to MacOS Monterey is so that I could run those 32-bit apps with Low Power Mode, which unfortunately cannot be done on operating systems earlier than MacOS Monterey. The power consumption on MacOS Mojave is far too high compared to that of MacOS Ventura on the M2 MacBook Air. The tradeoff is using MacOS Ventura on which those 32-bit apps don't seem to be able to run(if only they could somehow using Wineskin Winery, then I wouldn't even have to consider going through this rigmarole!) That's the reason I was considering the rigmarole of upgrading my old computer to MacOS Monterey and reactivating the 32-bit libraries(I don't know whether it's feasible; according to dialabrain, it may not be; sigh). If it were to be in any way possible for me to do this, perhaps I'll be able to run those 32-bit Windows programmes and relish the Lower Power Mode option.
No, unfortunately I haven't and am not knowledgeable about operating system kernels. Thanks for your thorough explanation, BobHarris. I can better appreciate the significant additional work involved in converting 32 bit data to 64 bit data in the kernel and the other factors that accompany it.
Some versions of WINE may support running 32 bit Windows apps on macOS 10.15+ at least on an Intel Mac although I don't know how well they perform....I know people have reported 32 bit Windows apps are too slow when using an Apple Silicon Mac due to the secret magic the WINE code must use to allow it. I saw this mentioned in a forum post on the Code Weaver's site which makes the CrossOver app which tends to have some extra magic bits before it makes it into the mainstream WINE project.
Hi HWTech, thanks for your response. The 32 bit Windows applications that I run on the M2 MacBook Air running MacOS Ventura actually run very well using Porting Kit or Wineskin. I believe that running some operating systems using virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs could be problematic in a way that isn't on an Intel Mac. But when it comes to Wine as the emulator, I don't think the Apple Silicon Mac is the major hurdle, it's more the dropping of 32 bit support for operating systems newer than MacOS Mojave, be they on Intel Macs or Apple Silicon Macs.
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