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Transferring 32 Bit Game Files

Posted on 2018-04-08, 00:27

I remember someone telling me I could try installing the game in a VM and then try moving the installed game to my Windows 10 OS since I know it will run, it’s just the installation getting in the way. When I click on the .exe it just notifies me I need to install the game first. I was wanting to …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 22:30

Ah, gotcha. Thank you very much. I’m hoping it will work since I’m getting the exact same message with XP before copying the DLL to system32. Windows 10 should handle a 32 bit application the same as XP I would think, right? So the system32 folder in Windows 10 is basically null and somehow …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 22:01

WinG DLLs were sometimes distributed with an application, at which point it merely became a matter of copying the files wing.dll, wing32.dll, wingde.dll, wingdib.drv and wngpal.wnd to the system32 directory (for 32 bit Windows) or SysWOW64 directory (for 64 bit Windows) to regain system-wide …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 10:19

By 'application folder' I mean the folder where the main executable file is. If your program copied the dlls on your XP to system folder instead of system32, it simply means it never expected to run on an NT based OS, but only on Win9x. It does not necessarily mean it has a 16 bit installer. But …

Re: Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 03:03

WinG is a pre-DirectX era graphics library from about 1994 so it's no more native/official system library on Win XP than it would be on your Win 10. Some application must have copied it to your XP's system32 folder, it is not distributed with XP either. But if you are afraid of a very unlikely …

Missing WING32.DLL in Windows 10

Posted on 2018-04-05, 00:33

I’m wanting to run a game’s application that will allow me to avoid a 16 bit installer, however, I get the error that WING32.DLL cannot be found and to reinstall. When opening in my XP VM I copied it from c:\windows\system to C:\windows\system32 and the game opened just like that. So, I know this is …

Re: PCem Backup

Posted on 2018-04-04, 01:19

The zipped copy is totally separate than the hard drive image PCEM uses, so any time you use that image w/PCEM and make changes, you should zip up the image again when you shutdown PCEM. You can either overwrite the original zip file if you only want one backup, or you could have as many backups as …

Re: PCem GPU/DirectX Change

Posted on 2018-03-31, 02:56

VirtualBox is a possibility if you're planning to use Windows XP because that's the minimum it supports its 3d acceleration for. It uses WineD3D to translate calls to OpenGL, in which its custom virtualbox video card's video driver will pass to the host's video card also via OpenGL. It won't do …

Re: PCem GPU/DirectX Change

Posted on 2018-03-31, 01:58

The S3 Virge is a first-generation 3d card that's not even capable of proper blending or fog, made from back when 3d acceleration was a very new concept in the consumer PC market. The Geforce6 is built upon years of technology advancements upon many more years of API maturity. They just don't …

Re: PCem GPU/DirectX Change

Posted on 2018-03-31, 01:04

DirectX 9 will install on plain non-updated Windows 98 just fine. Also note there's currently nothing more than a S3 Virge for a host video card that supports Direct3D (DX3-level) and upgrading DirectX won't make the currently-emulated DX3-DX5-class 3d hardware be a DX9-capable card. Well that’s …

PCem GPU/DirectX Change

Posted on 2018-03-30, 23:34

Are you able to change the hardware being emulated in PCem or do you have to create a new machine and reinstall Windows for this? I’m wanting to swap GPU’s in order to use a newer version of DirectX. I’ve found the last supported version of DirectX 9 for Windows 98 SE and am wondering if I have to …

PCem Hotkeys

Posted on 2018-03-29, 22:16

Is there a way to change the hotkeys somehow in PCem? I don’t have a page down nor print screen key on my mini keyboard which also does not allow me to remap them.

Re: Enabling 16 Bit Application Support In Windows 10

Posted on 2018-03-28, 23:11

At least all of them I tested crashed or stopped responding right away (Fury3 and Nitemare 3D). Fury3 will not even allow fullscreen mode if it detects a NT based Windows. Running it in Win9x compatibiliy mode will allow selecting it, crashing right upon selecting. Maybe those emulators have it …

Re: Enabling 16 Bit Application Support In Windows 10

Posted on 2018-03-25, 04:02

I haven't tried the emulators as I'm still on Win 32 bits, but they all seem to be those that open the desired program right away like ntvdm or wowexec. BTW, which Win16 title that relies on 3D hardware? I forgot there's also NTVDM64 for DOS games/applications to be run directly under 64 bits …

Re: Enabling 16 Bit Application Support In Windows 10

Posted on 2018-03-25, 00:36

The downside is that you need a 32 bit edition of Windows 10, and that's very uncommon (until you have a low-spec notebook). It won't work in 64 bit editions. If you got a 64 bit edition, you should try either: - Using DOSBox with Windows 3.x installed (but because lack of support of SHARE.EXE, …

Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 22:55

No, not necessarily. 16 bit problem on 64 bit Windows OS manifests itself in the form of an error message (e.g. when you press the install button of the menu or when you start the installer's executable manually): https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/07/0812-16-in-32-100047785-orig.jpg …

Re: Updated List of Current Best Emulators

Posted on 2018-03-24, 20:42

I wish VB allowed you to install guest additions with Windows 98 to create shared folders. I don’t have a usb and I’m doubtful I could figure out networking sharing so going to try the ISO route first and then hoping if I separate enough I’ll be able to email or upload them. Will the copy/paste …

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