MameWah & Windows X64

[FrizzleFried]

Has anyone gotten Mamewah to work with Windows XP 64-bit?  Mine keeps asking for the system files which I've already installed?

[headkaze]

I just tried and I can get MameWah working on XP 64

If you check out the mamewah.log you will see the error

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24/10/2008 11:57:06 PM MAMEWAH v1.63 launched
24/10/2008 11:57:06 PM Missing system file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\paintx.dll
24/10/2008 11:57:06 PM System files missing, MAMEWAH quit.
So just copy paintx.dll to C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64 and it will run

[FrizzleFried]

Again you assist!   I actually had 3 files that needed to be put in to the SysWOW64 folder,  evidently the self-install only sticks them in the System32 folder.

As a result,  Minwah's MAMERes tool now works too!

Alright... I think I am almost there...

...now to go through and stealth the OS.  I hope the instructions for XP 32 will work with XP 64.   Surely going with a black background,  changing the color of the tool bar, etc are the same...

[headkaze]

...now to go through and stealth the OS.  I hope the instructions for XP 32 will work with XP 64.   Surely going with a black background,  changing the color of the tool bar, etc are the same...

XP 64 (SP2) is a great OS and you have made a good decision going with it especially with a Dual Core and Mame64. In most cases everything works the same as 32-bit XP.

The SysWOW64 folder is where it places the old 32-bit versions of dll's so mainly the problem is with software that has not been updated or doesn't use environment variables correctly when copying files.

I have found most things work fine on XP 64 but some old programs might have problems especially old device drivers but in general most software works fine. All the Win32 API functions are there, so in my experiments all the methods to hide the desktop/taskbar/icons etc. works exactly the same as XP 32.

[FrizzleFried]

My benching MAME Blitz went from an average of 109% with Windows XP to 155% with Windows XP X64...

In real-world playing,  it went from just not quite playable to fully playable with a few sound hiccups here and there.

Wayne Gretzky was playable with quite a few sound hiccups before to 100% just about full time now.

It was worth the upgrade headaches with numbers like that.

Now,  has anyone been having problems with Blitz 99 or Blitz 2K?   On both I get right to where the field should be coming up and it sits there... I can get in to the DIPs, etc...and the game seems to be working...but it sits with the 4-emblems on screen looping the audience noise it appears.  Blitz works fine.

[HaRuMaN]

Hmm... I wonder if its worth trying XP 64 on my machine.

[rockmes]

Anybody have any luck with mamewah in window7 64 bit ?
l have tried what was mentioned above but i am still getting runtime error 429 ActiveX component.
my mamewah log doesn't even mention anything as per attachment