Win 8 on older laptop--my experience

I think the only reason you got a 16 bit program to run under Windows 8 because you probably have the 32 bit version of Windows 8 installed. I tried a couple of old 16 bit games on my desktop that has 64 bit Windows 8 pro on it. Prams says cannot run with 64 bit Windows 8 (or for that matter on my Windows 7 64 bit installation on my main computer)