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Re: Is StarsEd editor still available?

Wed, 24 April 2024 09:35

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Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe

OFC it would be too easy to finish the quest so quickly. Twisted Evil

When I copied the found folder with StarsEd to the comp with working Stars! and tried to run StarsEd, it failed to run with the message that the component Msflxgrd.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered or missing.
Let's ask google... It's a file from Visual Basic 6 development studio. I didn't want to get it from strange sources, so I downloaded it from MS site in a cumulative update for VB6.
OFC the update failed to install, because I didn't have VB6 installed.
But the update could be opened with 7zip, and I finally extracted the file to System32 folder and ran its registration.
OFC the registration failed, regsvr32 claiming it's missing dependent DLL files.
Thinking "Heck it!" I started my ancient portable from around year 2000 running Win XP, hoping I could install StarsEd there.
The comp booted and I saw BIOS settings for about 2 seconds (the battery for BIOS died long ago, so it's a SOP) . Then its LCD blanked and stayed blank, despite the comp rebooted afterwards and loaded OS correctly.
Connecting an external LCD didn't help. The signal it got from comp wasn't recognized as a valid one.

So the saga ...err... my quest for making Stars!'s AIs less crippled continues. Thumbs Up

BR, Iztok

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