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Hello there guys. I’m a newbie here so I will be brief.
I have installed DosBox with no problem, folowed step by steb guide e.t.c. But when i try to launch a game (Approx 1998 release date), DosBox says the following -> «This is a Windows NT windowed executable»
I have probably missed something or something i don’t know yet.
I would like to ask for some help please, and thank you guys for your Time!
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Reply 1 of 14, by Freddo
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Reply 2 of 14, by Protocol
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says WET on the disc
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Reply 3 of 14, by Protocol
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By the way, sorry to not mention this earlier. I’m running Win. XP SP2 2.66 GHZ
DosBox version 0.72
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Reply 4 of 14, by Dominus
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«This is a Windows NT windowed executable»
What happens when you start the game in Windows? Seems the game is for Windows.
Or you did something wrong with mounting and startig the game, so please write us what you did, step by step.
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Here goes. If I start the game in windows, on startup it gives an Error message saying something that the memory cannot be written. All attempts on launching the game normally — failed, Aparently i’m not the only one with that particular problem as I searched the web, where somewhere I found last advice by trying and using DosBox. So, I have downloaded DosBox 0.72 and used all Guides located here at this site. I’m more than sure that I have done everything as it said. To give you a hint, it’s not just the .exe issue with this error message. When I have to Install that game using DosBox, it says same error when i type «D:\>install». But since i have that game already installed, I could skip that section. Ufff…
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Reply 6 of 14, by Miki Maus
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You can’t run windows game in dosbox. And you didn’t say the name of the game. 😖
Reply 7 of 14, by Protocol
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Sorry about that, just comfirmed with the website, The game is called Wet — Sexy Empire somekind of erotic strategy apparently high rated,.. Damn, why DosBox was adviced to use then?! 🙁
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Reply 8 of 14, by leileilol
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Because whoever gave that advice is blind and is a moron
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Now it’s my turn to sound like a moron but … here goes….
The game looks like fun actually. Could it possibly be that this is the Amiga or Atari version, and it is trying to run in an amiga or atari emulator? Is the CD an original, or a clone/copy/custom version (downloaded from bittorrent or similar)? Does it have any .bat files on the disk, or in the root of the installed folder, and if so could you look in them with notepad to work something out? — perhaps even posting up the names of the .exe files might help as well.
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It is unknown what version the game acctualy is, since nolo Amiga or Atari trace is seen neither before or after installation. The game is downloaded from www.rapidshare.com, but i tried to get it elsewhere, with a success in that,… the result is a same error message when launching manually, «The instruction at 004447d1 referenced memory at 01228400. The memory could not be written». Other thing is it is guaranteed that the game is an actual copy of an original, and also it is guaranteed that it works. Indeed some people are able to launch it as they say on the WEB, while others have this issue… 😒
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Well, with warez copies you are on your own, expect this topic to be closed down soon. I have some ideas why it’s not working but I leave that to you to figure out.
Next time you have a problem with a game and you want to ask here for help, make sure you do the following:
— use an original copy, warez is a big no no
— name your OS and which version of Dosbox you are using (you did that)
— name the game right away, I’m really not sure why you have to ask people twice for the name of the game they have problems with…
— do as the people who are trying to help you, say. For example when they ask for what you do with Dosbox to play the game, step by step, then answer this, step by step…
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it’s clearly a Windows game
For the record: it’s not that clear at all.
I’d second Dominus’ opinion: it’s pretty bold to ask questions about a warez version here. Just because «someone», «somewhere on the web» writes this game is supposed to work, doesn’t mean it really is. Unless you get an original, you’re pretty much on your own.
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Swiv 3D on XP
Hi,
Im trying to get SWIV 3D to work on windows XP. I have so far tried a few things but with no luck.
After intsalation i tried to open swiv from the start menu and it came up with «The procedure entry point Think Connect32 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll»
After a google i found this forum and noticed the recomendation of DOSbox so i tried that using dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBoxurl as a guide but again it didnt work. When typing in C:\SWIV>swiv_win.exe and hitting enter it comes up with «this is a windows NT windowed executable».
Does anyone have any ideas on what else i can try?
I got this game as a demo with my first PC so am really looking forward to getting it going.
Cheers!!!
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SWIV is a windows game, I thought, so dosbox can’t help you.
Originally a W95 or W98 (????) game, so try to set the compability to Windows 98 or so …..
BTW you can get the full game from HotUs, maybe better try that than an incomplete demo. Demos are usually pre-releases.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3122
Should you need help to get that running, HotU has a tech help forum.
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Thanks for the help dosraider. It is a windows 95 game and i have tried setting the compatibility to 95, 98 etc using the guide on Hotu.
A google lead me to other forums where people suggested using dosbox.
My copy is the full version brought off ebay however the one on Hotu is a later one, im downloading it now so fingers crossed.
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Now I’ve got some more info about this one, seems that there are TWO versions on the full CD, a Dos one and a Windows one.
To use the dosversion you will definitively need dosbox, and run install from the CD.
Soundsetup: SB16, A220, IRQ7, DMA1, HDMA5.
To run it in dosbox you must input SWIV_DOS from the games folder in dosbox.
(This is secondhand info, I don’t have the game ……)
The HotU version is Win only apparently -(and not the full game as I thought, but a rip)-, hopefully it will work in XP…. .
Good luck anyway.
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I only used Dosbox briefly to play Scorched Earth so I could be misunderstanding.
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It’s just a DOS command prompt isn’t it? «cd <dir>» to change directory or «<drive letter>:» to change drives.I only used Dosbox briefly to play Scorched Earth so I could be misunderstanding.
I’ve tried that but it didn’t work, it gives me the following error message Unable to change to: finalliberation. I then tried to mount that folder but I don’t know how to activate the .exe file.
[Edit] I’m trying to get Final Liberation to work.
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«Program files» folder for examples, becomes «Progra~1» because DOS only accepts 8+3 character long file/folder names.
To change to «finalliberation», the folder name might be «finall~1»
Just type in «dir /p» to get a listing of all the directories just to make sure.
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the lazy method is just to put the file in directories that one can get to from the root (eg. «C:\») with every folder being shorter than 8 characters.
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Does that mean I can’t play it?
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Hmmm, looks like it. Make sure it’s actually a DOS game first though, I’m looking at a Gamespy review of something with the same name, looks like it’s a Win95 beast.
*Runs around screaming, ranting and raving*
God damn! I really miss being able to play Chaos Gate and Final Liberation. Does anyone know anything that could be used to play them?
[Edit] After a bit of extensive detective work, I’ve managed to find this little bit of goodness. The problem for Final Liberation is the movie files, not sure exactly what but they’re to XP what garlic is supposed to be to vampires. To get around this, create a readme.txt file in the Final Liberation directory called epic.ini and paste the following lines into it:
[Options]
MusicVol=100
FX_Volume=127
MV_Volume=127
UseGrid=0
DoVideo=0
WatchAI=1
AutoSave=1
That should get it working. Not perfectly stable and you can’t watch the viedoes, which I loved for their cheesyness, but at leas you’ll get to play the game.
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I’ve tried that but it didn’t work, it gives me the following error message Unable to change to: finalliberation. I then tried to mount that folder but I don’t know how to activate the .exe file.[Edit] I’m trying to get Final Liberation to work.
Ahhh I was lucky enough to finish Final Liberation on my Pentium 1 / win 98 just before it blew it up (plus play a few mp games with the modded Chaos race add-on; get it if you can).
As for fos box advice, I havnt tried it yet but as you probably know there are dozens of dosbox emulator versions; the reason being each one supports a different host of games according to the dos version its eumlating, so you’d have to be sure that you got the right one (supported games for each version are listed). Barring that; I played it fine on win98 (final liberation) so maybe if you found a 98 emulator that would do the trick?
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was taking a flick through my old game collection and fancied installing Motorhead on win7, but unfortunately it won’t even install. i get the following message:
«Motorhead is designed for Windows 95 and cannot be run on Windows NT»
tried the compatibility options in the setup.exe Properties but still doesn’t work. anyone have any suggestions for getting it to work?
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that guy’s problem is after the game is installed. Motorhead won’t even install for me…setup doesn’t run
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XP is also NT btw. besides the virtual pc doesn’t have access to the GPU which makes it useless for gaming. it’s not designed for that. tried that before with a game.
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Download Virtualbox and install Windows 95 on it. You’ll have to <snip> get a copy of Windows 95, unless you still have that CD as well.
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Oh I only use Virtual XP for incompatible apps so didnt know about the GPU issue
your only other way I can think of is to grab a copy of tiny XP and dual boot
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to get it running in XP
Right-click on motor.exe in the game’s folder (or whatever is the name of the game’s executive is for you) ->> motor Properties >> Compatability tab >> check «Run this program in compatability mode for:» >> Windows 95.
Not sure if you can do in the install this way too
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might try it on XP tomorrow with the compatibility settings, and see if a copy & paste of the prog file into windows 7 will do the job.
@Capt’n, tried compatibility settings on the setup.exe file on the CD already, but no luck. just get the error message in the OP.
Re virtualbox, it seems like too much hassle just to go that route for one game, probably have a win95/98 cd in the attic somewhere, but can’t be arsed to search.
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weren’t there some apps that log what happens during an install so you can replay it later on ?
because an install in most cases don’t just copy files
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Yeah, Dosbox is really good at getting old software to work. (It runs win3.1 so it really is backwards compatible.)
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I am using microsoft virtual PC 2007 for installing my old OS.
THe graphics is really good, so compatible with windows XP/Vista/70
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Outside option incase these don’t work.
If you’ve got a Linux Box and WINE installed on it. Can often get older games working better on that, than on Windows 7
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Dosbox doesn’t work. illegal command «win» comes up when i try it. Motorhead isn’t meant for Dos then
installed it okay on the XP desktop at home, ran it grand (though the HUD was missing for League races), copied it over to win7 laptop…intro cutscene ran then crashed. have v3.0 patch downloaded but haven’t got a chance to install it yet. will see if that works.
on choppy internet atm, so can’t download a Linux iso for a few months til i’m back in college in September (i knew there was a reason for college broadband :pac:). was thinking of doing that if i found a few more win95 games that wouldn’t run on win7
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In fairness DOSBOX is the way to go. If it’s crashing you may not have it configured correctly or you can try a different version or frontend. All this virtualbox and full Win95 install talk is way over the top! If you are having difficulty start a thread on the Arcade & Retro forum were there are plenty of people who use it.
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Didn’t the 64 bit Windows 7 drop support for running legacy code?
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That’s why you use DOSbox.
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installed the patch on the XP machine, figured out what the HUD problem was (display driver was on the wrong setting), worked even smoother than before. copied over the program file to the laptop, but now an error message comes up after the intro movie is finished/skipped
The instruction at 00434362 referenced memory at 00000000
The memory could not be read fromClick on OK to terminate the application
works grand on XP, but i rarely go on the desktop anymore.
In fairness DOSBOX is the way to go. If it’s crashing you may not have it configured correctly or you can try a different version or frontend. All this virtualbox and full Win95 install talk is way over the top! If you are having difficulty start a thread on the Arcade & Retro forum were there are plenty of people who use it.
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the same command comes up before the exe «win» (when i try to install it)…or under the input line, it says «this is a Windows NT windowed executable» (when i try and run the installed exe)
i’ll pop over to A&R and see if they can helpEDIT:
seems like i have this guys problem now, but they don’t seem to offer a complete fix to the problem
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I’ve been trying to get this game running I used to play, Atlantis The Lost Chapters, but I can’t manage to get it to work. Whenever I start the game it actually start, but this strange screen appears in which the screen is multiplied and split into pieces. I made a screenshot to make it more clear:
Note that this actually is the game, since the sound appears and this is also in fact the screen you will see when it’s running normally, but split into pieces. I have tried several methods to get it to work, including changing the compatibilitymode to any windows version, changing the setting and even tried to run in DOSBox, which only resulted in the message «This is a windows NT windowed executable.» I understand why it isn’t working but I’d love to know how to make it work.
thanks in advance,