SCI Companion or SCI Studio on 64-bit

[Cryptonomic]

So I'm noticing that you can't run games when you are creating them via the SCI Companion or SCI Studio if you are on a 64-bit windows. Even if you put the SCIV.exe file to work in compatibility mode, it won't work. This seems like a massive shortcoming that guarantees these tools won't be used on 64-bit machines as they gain popularity.

Is there a solution to this that anyone's aware of?

[MusicallyInspired]

DOSBox. To get it to work with the Run command, put DOSBox in the same directory as your game, edit the dosbox.conf file and add the commands to mount the drive and launch the exec file in the autoexec section, then have the program launch dosbox.exe instead of sciv.exe when you press Run.

[Collector]

Next to no 16-bit programs will run on x64. The built-in DOS emulator, NTVDM is missing altogether, as well as WOW. DOSBox is the way to go, even on today's 32-bit Windows.