Resolved Trying to run an "ancient" program on a new computer

Is it possible to run a program that was written in the Windows 3.1 days on a present day computer either under Windows 7 or Vista?
This is Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time.
Minimum system requirements are a 386SX processor with 8 megs of ram.
Thanks.

 

Dosbox
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
It works great right of the box, USB mouse, keyboard and joystick function quite well in it.

 

Thank you Markp62. I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see how it goes.

 

You could try running it in windows 95 compatibility mode.

 

I finally got around to trying it,

but I think it'll be an insurmountable problem on this computer if for no other reason than this is Windows 7 64 bit.
If you think I'm wrong about this, please let me know.
I really didn't try all that hard.
PS could you tell me how to get into the compatibility mode?
Thanks.

 

Try this:

Make older programs run in this version of Windows

 

I have no problem running Duke Nukem (the original) on my system using DOSbox.

 

I no longer wish to pursue this topic, as there are other matters demanding my attention.
Thanks to all who responded. I will mark this matter as resolved.