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I tried all sorts of ways of getting my game (Bejeweled Twist) to run on Windows 10 but nothing worked.

I still have my retail version of Windows 7, so installed it on the laptop. The game works on that. I have run an HDMI lead from the laptop to my large monitor and so see the game at a decent size.

Now I can play the game, I find I don't want to play it all that much. It was the challenge of getting it to work that made me do it.
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08-12-2019, 02:49 PM
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I don't have a laptop, I use my home PC. I do have my late OH's ipad, but rarely use it. It's around 6/7 years old.
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08-12-2019, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mart ->
I tried all sorts of ways of getting my game (Bejeweled Twist) to run on Windows 10 but nothing worked.

I still have my retail version of Windows 7, so installed it on the laptop. The game works on that. I have run an HDMI lead from the laptop to my large monitor and so see the game at a decent size.

Now I can play the game, I find I don't want to play it all that much. It was the challenge of getting it to work that made me do it.
I know what you mean. I get like that sometimes.
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Thanks guys will look into some of the ideas.
LD I actually bought a laptop with xp but its a business one and very hard to suss out all the bits n bobs on it although it plays my old Command and Conquer and my Rollercoaster so it was not a total waste and if this laptop ever needs to be taken away I can go online with it although I need to use a connector because its not wireless like this one.
My HP which I bought in 2000 has been around the family I used it for 8 years whilst I was still working,then when I retired early I gave it to my grand daughter and her step father decided oneday to start playing about with it to correct a problem and god knows what he did but it was never the same. In 2012 it was returned to me and I managed to get CM97/98 working again on it but it was never to go online again. Now it is like I say ready for the scrap heap I still have 2 lap tops the xp and the win 10 I have just managed to buy a old Nintendo snes not one of the new mini ones they are rubbish so I can now play Soccer Manager and the original Sim City and quite a few more. Really stepping back in time now and going retro I find the new games today are to fast and to many fingers are required for the hand sets I just cannot keep up.
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I know some folks don't like FB but, there are games on there that I haven't seen anywhere else, they now have Gameroom where some games that needed Flash can be played.
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09-12-2019, 05:51 PM
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My trusty old Toshiba laptop is still going strong although some of the keypad letters have now virtually disappeared completely, namely the N, S and E, and it definitely needs a new battery because I can only use it with it plugged into the socket. but hey ho, who needs a battery anyway?

I love it anyway. I have a brand new Haiwaii tablet still stuck in it's pretty box under the coffee table. I logged into it when it was new and I was setting it up. it has never been used since. I reverted back to my faithful old friend.

When this one goes, I will as I did with this and my previous one, contact the shop I found on Ebay and buy a good reliable refurbished one again, paying much less than half of what it would cost to buy new, then use it every day hopefully for another 5 years money's worth until it wears out again.
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never had a laptop
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I had a W7 Samsung, was working OK just a bit slow. A year and a bit ago I bought a Lenovo with W10 built in, super fast, no AV apart from W10's own, no problem. And these things are so cheap nowadays. My first lappy was a Compaq W98 in '98 costs nearly £1,200, and you can imagine how antiquated that was by comparison to today's £300's worth.
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Mine is so old, it's still a desktop (apple) 10 years plus and works great!
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I’ve never had a laptop, always been Macs and iPads for me.
 
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