Re: If the Desktop Windows CE have an support on Win 98/SE, 95 programs??
Posted on 2017-09-24, 00:56
Windows Phone 7 does share the same underpinnings as Windows CE, but later WinPhone versions do away with it in favour of NT.
Re: Games with CD Audio?
Posted on 2017-08-30, 11:38
The first two Harley-Davidson games for Windows by WizardWorks use Red Book, e.g. Race Across America and Wheels of Freedom.
Re: The Sims: House Party Windows 10 Crash
Posted on 2017-08-30, 11:26
Yep, had the same problem and when I tried compatibility mode it worked. On a side note, does anybody have experience with playing the Sims on Linux? I was reading some random article about the benefits of Linux and I was curious if anyone has tried it? I know that most games and applications can …
Re: Analyzing QuickTime incompatibilities
Posted on 2017-05-12, 02:40
collector wrote: Of course. Care to show me how, as an example?
Re: Analyzing QuickTime incompatibilities
Posted on 2017-04-27, 02:29
I have had good luck with extracting the QuickTime files from the game's included QT installer and dropping them into the game's installed folder. The game will then use the version of QT it expects instead of what is installed on your system. You mean getting the game to load the QT runtimes …
Re: [W10] Mafia - Mouse not working ingame
Posted on 2016-10-10, 13:26
That's strange, the game runs just fine in my case albeit with some tweaking.
Re: Emulating The Complete Nat Geo on Mac
Posted on 2016-10-07, 02:23
Would wrapping it in Wineskin be feasible?
Re: What happened to software rendering?
Posted on 2016-09-28, 01:23
Bottom line is that GPUs developed too quickly for CPUs and software rendering to keep up. Initially, the same game could be played in software and with hardware acceleration. Eg Quake. The hardware acceleration would give you higher resolution, texture filtering, but other than that it was …
Re: [SOLVED] American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-08-25, 22:32
Not really, I just used it to see what's going on in a less cryptic manner. Other than that I tried their SDK but the most that I could get from it is the game freezing whenever I try to reproduce the error. Trust me, I'm vouching for that tool. 😉
Re: [SOLVED] American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-08-25, 12:02
Interesting. I had not heard of those tools before. So what exactly does the fix do? I guess it's some sparsely-documented API feature that was depreciated in later versions of Windows, since it was never supposed to be used in the first place? Nothing much, other than changing the hMenu parameter …
Re: [SOLVED] American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-08-25, 01:05
There, just solved the problem by patching the exe itself. In a hex editor, go to offset 008BAA0, then look for ff 75 d8, and change it to ff 75 d0. Save the new EXE, then see if you can get the damn game to work again. 😁
Ddraw upscaler for fixed-res games?
Posted on 2016-08-19, 23:57
Title says all - Is there a wrapper to upscale DDraw games? Or are any of the existing wrapper libraries out there able to do so, especially in the case where you have a 1080p or 1440p display and it's hard to squint at a title that doesn't account for higher resolutions.
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-08-05, 04:01
Also, running it through OllyDbg turns up an "ERROR_INVALID_WINDOW_HANDLE" exception upon clicking on the problematic button, which, along with a run through WinAPIOverride, seems to confirm the error message I got through Wine. It seems like it tries to call a window, menu or w/e but couldn't due …
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-07-26, 23:27
but the dreaded window error still shows up. It basically appears to be more like a Windows API issue of some sort involving a certain DLL - I'm thinking about user32 or GDI, but it could be some other library. you may want to run/profiling the game within Dependancy Walker http://dependencywalker. …
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-07-26, 08:35
Yup, but still no dice.
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-07-26, 07:36
Which reminds me... Are there any other DDraw/GDI/whatever wrappers I could try besides the ones mentioned above? for game before directx7, i usually have good luck wiht Aqrit's ddwraper http://bitpatch.com/ddwrapper.html The wrapper works, as I am able to get an FPS count on one corner of the …
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-07-25, 06:11
Which reminds me... Are there any other DDraw/GDI/whatever wrappers I could try besides the ones mentioned above?
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-06-23, 00:58
Whoops, that wasn't the right link. I meant http://punkrockhacker.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html . I know pretty much nothing about using debuggers beyond what is written there. Lol me neither. I can do simple registry hacks for old games which call for a CD to stream its assets from, but …
Re: American Girls Dress Designer on Windows XP and above
Posted on 2016-06-22, 23:24
If you're dead set on getting to the bottom of this, perhaps it's time to break out the debugger? I've not had an opportunity to employ such techniques myself, but http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2015/02/10/wars-shadows-empire/ is an intriguing example. At least it's easy to reliably reproduce the …
Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)
Posted on 2016-06-21, 05:08
RoyBatty wrote: Circumvents safedisc, so... yeah By SafeDisc you mean the later versions, or just the earlier ones?
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