Wintex Won't Work [Archive]

Aliotroph?

October 6th, 2001, 09:37 PM

There's 4.7? I was using 4.5. Where'd you get that? If I can get it I might be able to help.

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The Undertaker

October 6th, 2001, 10:19 PM

Is the missing file vbrun300.dll? If so then you need to install visual basic.

Aliotroph?

October 7th, 2001, 11:00 AM

You don't need to install Visual Basic. Just get one of us to e-mail you the file. I think some versions of Wintext come with vbrun300.dll.

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"Killed Aliotroph?"
- obituary from Perfect Dark

mystic

October 7th, 2001, 08:43 PM

He doesnt have an email address. Do a search on vbrun300.dll you can use google on my web page at http://www.gtroad.net and download it, copy it to the windows directory (or windows\system) and it should work.

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' series of Doom wads.
Creator of 'Wet Phannys' 'Phannies Galore' 'Minge' the 'Grail' series, the 'Mystic' series
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

So long and thanks for all the fish
(hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)
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http://www.gtroad.net

Big_al

October 8th, 2001, 12:36 PM

Or try ZDnet downloads.
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads
You can get all the versions of VB runtime libraries there.

fella

October 8th, 2001, 05:44 PM

it still dont work

mystic

October 8th, 2001, 07:41 PM

Do like I do then, use an older version. I have downloaded all the recent releases but dont trust them. (different author) Im still using version 4.3 by Olivier Montanuy and I wouldnt be without it.

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' series of Doom wads.
Creator of 'Wet Phannys' 'Phannies Galore' 'Minge' the 'Grail' series, the 'Mystic' series
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

So long and thanks for all the fish
(hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)
http://www.murray6.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/liam/6.gif

http://www.gtroad.net

ReX

October 9th, 2001, 05:33 AM

Are you using Win2000? If so, then WinTex will not work. I've tried and I've tried, but it just doesn't. I get a GPF error and WinTex refuses to load. I even emailed Oliver Montanuy, the creator, about the problem but he couldn't help. He didn't even realize that there was a problem trying to run WinTex in Win2K.

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Pay the Piper, face your DooM.

Leo32

October 10th, 2001, 06:11 PM

Back up a second, guys. 4.5, 4.7?...

Where can I download newer versions of Wintex beyond 4.3? I can only find 4.3 everywhere, including doomworld.

mystic

October 10th, 2001, 07:24 PM

Check the news archive here at newdoom, there have been a few updates to wintex in the last couple of months, the latest one was quite recent, last week I think. The news story has a link to the page where you can download it.

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' series of Doom wads.
Creator of 'Wet Phannys' 'Phannies Galore' 'Minge' the 'Grail' series, the 'Mystic' series
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

So long and thanks for all the fish
(hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)

http://www.gtroad.net

Big_al

October 11th, 2001, 01:20 AM

With all these Doom programs that don't work in W2K, what hope have we got with XP?

DooMAD

October 11th, 2001, 02:49 AM

I don't think I'll ever upgrade to 2K or XP. I like my backwards compatibility with DOS.

Big_al

October 11th, 2001, 03:08 AM

I use a dual boot W2k/Win98 system. It was easy to setup.
Play all my old DOS based stuff in Win98, do everything else in W2k. Best of both worlds.

mystic

October 11th, 2001, 07:07 AM

Im with you DooMad, I have loads of old favourite Dos software. And theres no way Im faffing about with a dual boot system just so I can use all my favourite software.
I wonder if those guys with the new operating systems ever use them for anything, none of the software seems to work on them.

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' series of Doom wads.
Creator of 'Wet Phannys' 'Phannies Galore' 'Minge' the 'Grail' series, the 'Mystic' series
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

So long and thanks for all the fish
(hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)

http://www.gtroad.net

Big_al

October 11th, 2001, 09:18 AM

I use the new OS because I got fed up reinstalling Win98 every two or three months when it gets messed up.

I seem to remember Mystic swearing that he would never use, Win98, ICQ, chatrooms, message board forums and look at him now.
Give him a 1/2 a year and he will be swearing by 2000 or XP too. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm1.gif

Anyway how hard is it to select 1 for W2K and 2 for Win98 when booting? Its hardly faffing about is it.

mystic

October 11th, 2001, 10:19 PM

Hey Big Al, you forgot my win98 machine boots into dos, do you really think Im going to turn my back on dos? its the only system I know well enough to seem clever.

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' series of Doom wads.
Creator of 'Wet Phannys' 'Phannies Galore' 'Minge' the 'Grail' series, the 'Mystic' series
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

So long and thanks for all the fish
(hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)

http://www.gtroad.net

Big_al

October 12th, 2001, 02:56 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>you forgot my win98 machine boots into dos<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

Anyone else this attached to DOS?
Or is Mystic the only one.

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ReX

October 12th, 2001, 06:50 AM

Actually, in some respects DOS is easier to use (and not just because people have gotten used to it over the years) and less messy. The newer OSs take file and system management control away from the average user (e.g. system registry). Unfortunately, with the interdependency of software and hardware nowadays, DOS is inadequate.

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Pay the Piper, face your DooM.

Big_al

October 12th, 2001, 07:10 AM

Less messy??
What about all the memory manager/ config.sys/ autoexec.bat hoops you had to jump through to get enough memory to get some games working.

I'm glad I didn't get a PC until after Win95 was out.

deepteam

October 17th, 2001, 10:41 AM

Less messy??
What about all the memory manager/ config.sys/ autoexec.bat hoops you had to jump through to get enough memory to get some games working.
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LOL - exactly. Not to mention that the video drivers could be a nightmare for games. Even VESA had enough quirks to make one give up. Then the mouse drivers had issues (cursor stuff) and so on and so forth. Bah, worthless OS in most regards.

About the only thing useful is the file manipulation stuff (and some other command line tools), but THAT feature is exactly the same in Win2k or XP - just type CMD in "run" and LOOK what you get. So you can have your cake and eat it too http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

XP has a compatibility mode that takes care of most "old" games. DOOM runs fine. IOW, XP is a lot better than Win2k in the game department and in hardware/driver support - so don't judge it by that standard.

Big_al

October 17th, 2001, 01:18 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>XP has a compatibility mode that takes care of most "old" games.<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>
That is what MS hype says, but does it live up to it in pratice?

deepteam

October 18th, 2001, 10:06 AM

That is what MS hype says, but does it live up to it in pratice?
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Simply put, YES. Been running (actually Mike has) XP for 4 months or so (really, don't remember exactly, but since beta 1).

We obviously haven't run everything - sometimes a game will take over the machine, which is interesting considering how XP is supposed to be able to take control away from any program. Looks like a DirectX bug.

Compared to Win2k (which blows in every way getting drivers and games to work), this thing is sweet.

For comparison, we uninstalled win2k in a month, so worthless was it in the games and driver/hardware department http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

Aliotroph?

October 18th, 2001, 10:09 AM

That rocks! I have a Hell of a time trying to get DOS games to work on computers with Windows ME. That stupid OS has no DOS compatibility at all!!!!

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"Killed Aliotroph?"
- obituary from Perfect Dark

deepteam

October 19th, 2001, 10:29 AM

Oh sorry - something that slipped my mind. I should have qualified my XP answer a little http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

You do need at least a PIII 1000 to get DOS emulation to work reasonably fast http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif That's because it's intercepting "DOS" api's and translating them. Takes a big hit doing this. So the good news is that it works, the bad news is that on older machines it is slow.

This technique is actually very old (like 30 years old), so what may happen -IF- MS gets enough complaints, is that they tune some often used parts to get the speed back (that's what was done in the past). So email MS and tell them you want DOOM to run at "normal" speed.