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Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Tue, 22 January 2013 16:52

joseph

Lt. Junior Grade

Messages: 440
Registered: May 2003
Location: Bristol

Dear All
I have a shiney new laptop (old one broke Crying or Very Sad

)
It is win8 64 bit and in most things is pretty nifty

However - it wont run stars
I have tried dosbox and cant get the blighter to run

Can any one provide me with a bit of help
And as this is likely to affect others in the community a step by step guide would be good (good for me too!)

Joseph
"Can burn the land and boil the sea. You cant take the Stars from me"

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Re: Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Tue, 22 January 2013 19:05

XAPBob

Lt. Commander

Messages: 957
Registered: August 2012

run a virtual machine...

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Re: Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Mon, 28 January 2013 22:42

LittleEddie

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Helped track down one or more Stars bugs

Messages: 517
Registered: February 2011
Location: Delaware

your code should be on the back of your computer, you can download the Windows 8 32bit version from Microsoft and install it using the same code. Windows 8 32 bit version will run Stars with no problem

Ed

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Re: Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Thu, 28 February 2013 07:10

Tomasoid

Chief Warrant Officer 3

Messages: 182
Registered: December 2005
Location: Ukraine

Hi!

I had the same issue under Windows 7. I solved it with use of Windows XP mode converted into VMWare.

In a little bit more detail:

Windows 7 and 8 have such thing as Windows XP mode for virtual machine. Search Microsoft site for Windows XP Mode and you'll get it all to run XP virtual machine under windows 7 or 8. Normally it should run on your machine well, though not all computers may support it.

If your computer, for some reason, cannot support Windows XP mode or virtualization, you can use VMWare and convert the same Windows XP mode machine file to the virtual machine playable by VMWare (VMVare have converter for that as I recall).

WBR, Vlad

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Re: Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Fri, 01 March 2013 12:04

craebild

Lieutenant

Messages: 568
Registered: December 2003
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Tomasoid:

Virtual Machine XP Mode for Windows 7 is only free with Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate, with a lower version of Windows 7 you would have to pay to make Virtual Machine XP Mode run - And IIRC the cost for that isn't much lower than the cost for upgrading to Windows 7 Pro, and upgrading to Windows 7 Pro gives more than just Virtual Machine.

I haven't heard about the possibility of converting the XP Mode files to run under VMWare, so I cannot say anything about that.

I don't know whether Stars! can be made to run in Windows 8. I have seen other programs that normally cannot run in Windows 8 run fine under 64 bit Windows 8 Ultimate in compatibility mode, but those are 32 bit program, not 16 bit programs like Stars!.

Personally I can say that Stars! runs fine in Virtual Machine XP Mode in 64 bit Windows 7 Pro, but I am not the first to set Stars! up that way.

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Ræbild / Christian Raebild

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Re: Windows 8 64bit - ahhh no stars

Fri, 01 March 2013 19:29

LittleEddie

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Registered: February 2011
Location: Delaware

I'm running Stars! on Windows 8 32-bit version.

The 32 bit version will run 16-bit software without a problem.

If your upgrading to Windows 8 you have to tell it during setup to use 32 bit version. If you get a new computer with 64-bit I don't know about changing it to 32-bit but the code for the windows is the same for both versions.

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