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Reply 20 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Dominus wrote:

yes, windows 3.1 is 16bit, but install Win32s for being able to install some 32bit stuff.

Excuse me? I'm afraid I don't quite get what you mean when you say "install Win32s."

Reply 22 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Dominus wrote:

No need to be sarcastic.

It sounded like you were talking about some sort of plural form of Win32, which, of course, makes no sense. Perhaps that was a typo, and I was asking for clarification.

Reply 24 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Dominus wrote:

I thought anyone asking for windows 3.1 stuff here is down with the guide Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide

I didn't read the part about other drivers. 😄

Anywho, Win32s seems to install okay, but when I try to install the 32 bit version of quicktime, I get three error reports, one after the other:

"Win32s - Error

At least one system component is out of date.
Please reinstall D:\QTWSETUP\WIN32\EXPRESS\QT32INST.EXE"

"Win32s - Error

Improper installation.
Win32s requires WIN32S.EXE and WIN32S16.DLL to run.
Please reinstall Win32s."

"The specified path is invalid."

It could be because of the actual installer I used, which was linked to from Wikipedia, so I'll check the one you linked to in that guide.

Reply 25 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Okay, when I use the one that was linked to in that guide, and then I try to install Quicktime 32, I get this error:

"Win32s -Error

QT32INST.EXE
Unhandled Exception detected. (Code: 0xC0000094 QT32INST.EXE:6ED5)
Application will be terminated."

I have no idea why this happened.

Reply 26 of 54, by filipetolhuizen

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But you have the 16 bit version installed, right? Do the videos play now?

Reply 27 of 54, by Riverwolf

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filipetolhuizen wrote:

But you have the 16 bit version installed, right? Do the videos play now?

Nope.

That's the thing; the 16 bit version isn't installing properly. It goes through the process okay, but something seems to be keeping it from properly finishing.

Reply 28 of 54, by filipetolhuizen

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Maybe you have too much free disk space and the installer has problems with that much. This is a well known problem with old applications.

Reply 29 of 54, by Riverwolf

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filipetolhuizen wrote:

Maybe you have too much free disk space and the installer has problems with that much. This is a well known problem with old applications.

Too much space? Huh.

How would you recommend fixing that?

Reply 31 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Dominus wrote:

The mount command has a freesize option, details are in the readme.

How much would you recommend?

Reply 32 of 54, by Davros

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less than 127 mb

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Reply 33 of 54, by Riverwolf

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Davros wrote:

less than 127 mb

I may be doing it wrong, because when I typed in "mount c c:\doswin -freesize 126" (as well as mounting the virtual d drive to my real f drive), it still didn't install correctly. Of course, I was trying to reinstall the program, both with the reinstall application that was in the Quicktime folder, as well as from the Myst CD. Neither worked.

Do I have to reinstall all of Windows first?

Reply 34 of 54, by Davros

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no idea

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Reply 35 of 54, by filipetolhuizen

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Maybe something else is causing the problem, but it's hard to tell. Have you tried other cpus/cores in DosBox? Some are quite unstable with certain programs or might have missing instructions required for the installation.

Reply 36 of 54, by Riverwolf

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filipetolhuizen wrote:

Have you tried other cpus/cores in DosBox?

No, but they're both currently set to auto.

Do you recommend any particular ones?

Reply 37 of 54, by filipetolhuizen

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try pentium and 386. Try setting the core to simple.

Reply 38 of 54, by Riverwolf

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filipetolhuizen wrote:

try pentium and 386. Try setting the core to simple.

Okay, I tried setting the core to simple, and the CPU type for pentium, and all the variations on 386 that were listed in the options as examples. None of them worked; Quicktime still doesn't install correctly. (386_prefetch actually caused DOSbox to crash before starting up.)