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First post, by BLzNFuN78

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I'm trying to get "Star Trek The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual" to work in windows 3.1 / 3.11. When selecting the guided tour, it just fast forwards thru and when browsing the links, pictures don't show up and the sound is choppy. I have installed the S3 and SB16 drivers to make it work. Was thinking about installing DOS inside DOSBox to see if it corrects the problem.

A video can be seen here on what it is doing.

https://youtu.be/pejXe396l8s

Reply 1 of 5, by Jorpho

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Is that supposed to be a video demonstrating the problem?

Lowering the cycles in DOSBox is usually a good idea, or you can try changing the machine type to pentium_slow.

It is also possible that you need the particular version of Quicktime that shipped with the program (assuming that it uses Quicktime).

Reply 2 of 5, by BLzNFuN78

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Yes it was a video of the problem.

I used the quicktime shipped with it, but I read that the lastest 2.x.x was the one to have that solved bugs in the original 2.0 version which I installed first. I'll try your suggestions. I can't remember if I tried that yet. I have messed with a lot of settings so far but none have seemed to make a difference.

Reply 3 of 5, by BLzNFuN78

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Tried as you suggested and no luck. I did notice that an error appears in the status window upon loading Windows 3.11 and I'm wondering if this might have something to do with it.

Warning: file creation failed: c:\users\admin\documents\dosprog\DOSPROG\WINDOWS\TEMP\~

Reply 4 of 5, by Jorpho

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I tried watching the video and I'm not clear on exactly what the problem is.

Are other Windows programs running correctly? Do you still have the CD-ROM mounted after installation? (I assume it runs off a CD or CD image.)

Reply 5 of 5, by Osprey

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This doesn't exactly help you with getting it working in Win3.1, but, if you didn't know, there are actually two versions of the Technical Manual. Version 1 is 16-bit and for Windows 3.1. Version 2 (also called Technical Manual 99) is 32-bit and for Windows 95/98. If you can find the latter version, you might have a whole lot easier time getting it working, since you wouldn't have to use DOSBox or Win3.1 In fact, I just installed and launched the newer version in Windows 10 x64 (though it exited when it couldn't find Quicktime, since I'm not about to install that).