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editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/3/2007 10:26:54 PM   
kritter

 

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Status: offline 		The game runs on XP64 why doesn't the editor? It tries and says it is not the operating system it expected. Can someone please fix it.
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RE: editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/4/2007 6:24:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like an old program on a new OS. I will report this to the rest of the team.

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RE: editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/4/2007 3:20:47 PM   
kritter

 

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Status: offline 		Please do, Harpoon 3 and its editor runs on XP64, I do not know why just the editor for this game does not. Now that most of the chips are 64 bit you would think most software would run on a 64 bit operating system.

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RE: editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/4/2007 7:03:50 PM   
TonyE


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Status: offline 		Well, I've stated it many times before but posts obviously get hard to find when there are lots of new ones.

The Scenario Editor will not work on 64-bit version of windows because 64-bit versions of windows don't have a 16-bit Windows subsystem like 32-bit versions of Windows have.

Your work around is to run an emulator such as VMWare and a 32-bit operating system inside of that in order to use the SE.



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RE: editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/5/2007 6:20:30 PM   
kritter

 

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Status: offline 		Why does the game run on 64 bit? Why not just recompile it? Is this difficult?

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RE: editor doesnot run on XP 64 - 12/5/2007 7:57:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		The game runs on 64-bit because 64-bit versions of Windows have a 32-bit emulator.  64-bit versions of windows no longer have a 16-bit emulator, that's why the SE doesn't run on them.

The move from 16-bit to 32-bit in terms of coding is not trivial.  Two very talented programmers tried and did not make it all that far.  I have a 32-bit version of the scenario editor I managed to convert from 16-bit but it is nowhere near stable or useable.


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