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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Chazz on March 29, 2002, 02:04:34 pm

Title: AdvMAME SIGSEGV Error Message
Post by: Chazz on March 29, 2002, 02:04:34 pm

Can someone tell me what this error message means in AdvMAME?

(http://www.interlog.com/~zupetals/error.jpg)

Title: Re: AdvMAME Error Message
Post by: Frobozz on March 29, 2002, 02:39:34 pm

General Protection Fault.  Serious error.  Program was doing something to the computer that it shouldn't have, like write to memory occupied by something else.  

Always a result of bad programming, either on the part of the program that caused the GPF, or another program running at the same time.  Typically caused when some dink-programmer tries to bypass the operating system and access things directly; a serious problem in DOS (because it don't have the API required to control the hardware properly, and you HAVE to talk to the hardware directly) but not much in Windows 2000 (because the operating system has almost Gestapo-like control over the hardware and forbids most software from talking to it directly)

Title: Re:AdvMAME Error Message
Post by: Chazz on July 15, 2002, 07:58:47 am

I'm still getting this message...  Can anyone help me to fix this?