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Title: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: dudenohair on January 04, 2012, 07:53:28 pm

Hi everybody!  (This is my first post here)

I built a really neat and unique arcade cabinet out of an old Buck Rogers machine (Buck was long gone and Toki was living there).   I put an old PC in it running a fresh install of Windows ME.

I installed Mala and it runs great, except when I try to use a layout that displays snaps.  ANY layout that displays snaps crashes to desktop.  The error is something like "<unknown> caused an error in mala."

I've got an ATI Radeon AGP card in it (not sure of the model), direct x 9 drivers, installed IE 6.1 (hoping to get that special missing dll).  I installed dot net framework 2 to attempt to fix it.  Nothing works.

Anybody got any hints on curing the crash problem?

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 05, 2012, 09:48:19 am

 :puke

Windows ME is your problem.

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: Malenko on January 05, 2012, 09:52:29 am

at least get XP on it

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on January 05, 2012, 11:15:42 am

Anyone else stop reading after "Windows ME crashes"?

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: empardopo on January 06, 2012, 08:37:13 am

You could test with gif, jpg,png snaps!

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: dudenohair on February 24, 2012, 07:27:45 pm

I gave up and swapped in a whole other computer (around 2005 vintage) with windows xp on it.   Then I discovered it had sluggish integrated graphics in it.  Then I discovered it didn't have an AGP slot.  Then I gave up and and bought a an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI card.  Now it is running the games without any delays.

Now for the beef.... XP is a whole lot tougher to get rid of the "Windows look."  I want it to boot to look like an arcade machine... I have read the installation guides for hiding XP...but there is always some vestige of Windows that lingers.   Windows ME was super simple to get rid of the windows look.

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: Richard_Nixon on February 24, 2012, 07:41:37 pm

Windows ME  :laugh2:

What are you trying to hide in XP?

Here is a good step by step.
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Hiding_Windows (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Hiding_Windows)

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: dudenohair on February 25, 2012, 08:14:54 am

Thanks...I've done those, but I am having trouble with the shutdown screens.  I'll get it eventually, it's just that XP is a pain for this, plus I burn a license for a still-useful operating system.   So now I have this Windows ME computer laying around with nothing to do.

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on February 25, 2012, 12:38:30 pm

Quote from: dudenohair on February 25, 2012, 08:14:54 am

still-useful operating system

:laugh2:

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: dudenohair on February 26, 2012, 08:47:11 am

I was talking about XP being still useful...

Title: Re: Mala on Windows ME crashes when trying to display snaps
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on February 26, 2012, 08:49:56 am

Quote from: dudenohair on February 26, 2012, 08:47:11 am

I was talking about XP being still useful...

My apologies for failing reading comprehension.

There are a fair number of guides out there for 'hiding' WinXP. Have you worked through any of those?