Post by Marusame in Dunc's Algomusic comments

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I tried to use these, it wont work at all, I allowed the exception in the DEP settings (you physically cannot turn it off in windows 10, just allow exceptions) and even used several compatibility settings and nothing.

(sorry for the multiple posts, the page kept saying it was having server trouble and didnt look like it posted )

Marasmusine7 years ago

I'm not sure if it's a compatibility issue, as they both run okay on my Windows 10 computer without changing any compatibility options. Can I make sure (and sorry if these are dumb questions), is it all unzipped, and are the subfolders present (/music for Mk V, /wavC etc for Mk III)?

Marusame7 years ago (2 edits)

Well im using the itch.io app which automatically downloads and installs the game to a folder so it extracts it. I also downloaded them seperately and unzipped them. v5 just has the music folder next to the .exe with a text readme file. Also you should delete the readme as the page http://www.wikihost.org/w/doodleblog/dunc_s_algomu... leads to what could potentially be virus laiden websites, it attempts to load several redirected websites which my chromium blocks.

the v3 includes several folders, drum, wavC, wavE,wavG DAM.txt and the duncalomusic.exe. Ive also used 7zip to extract the .exe within the extracted folder just for kicks and still have nothing. Ive added the programs to my exception in the DEP settings, and ran the .exe in every compatibliity mode i can think of. I have windows 10 pro 64bit. nvidia 1050ti, 16gigs of gskill ram, and an i5-2500. And yes i know its just a small text based thing, but still wanted to post the specs just in case.

Oh the error i get is "this application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). Click OK to close the application."

Okay, tested this on another windows 10 computer and it works. Not sure why that worked and this didnt. Do you need java installed or anything like that?

Marasmusine7 years ago

The Dark Basic and Blitz Basic compilers were both self-contained, but they are both ancient now so it's unsurprising there'll be some issues.

Thanks for pointing out the wikihost thing, that's where it used to be hosted like 8 years ago but it doesn't exist anymore. I'll update it later.

Marusame7 years ago

yeah i just CANNOT get it to run on my gaming rig, but my frankenstein of a computer thats a 2008 mac pro jerryrigged to run windows 10 64 bit with the xeon processors works just fine. And Im using google drive so the file is synced so its quite literally the same file and folders and works fine on one windows 10 and not the other, though my current pc is running creators update and the other isnt, I will update it and see if i lose access to the files.

Marusame7 years ago

After some sleuthing i found that it cannot creat the dplayx.dll for some reason C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dplayx.dll, access denied even with admin rights and given it everyone status. very weird.

Marasmusine7 years ago

That is wierd. Not much I can do about it :)

Marusame7 years ago

my guess is that if you carried over an OS from windows 7 or 8 it had more compatibility. I had troubles playing command and conquer red alert 2 with the same direct draw issue had to use windows 10 work around with a ddraw wrapper. Seems win 10 is fundamentally missing this feature if you never had any previous windows installed. Guess im boned.Will have to make a virtual machine just for the app it seems.