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Title: mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: exibar on August 28, 2004, 01:32:24 am

I just did a scratch install of XP pro, and now MameWah won't run at all :-(   The screen flickers after I double click on MmamaWAH, but then nuthin!

  anyone knwo what's happening?

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: Goz on August 28, 2004, 01:35:03 am

Did you also do a fresh install of MAMEWAH?

If copied then try a fresh install and make sure you have the .NET  stuff if not it will not start up

-Goz

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: exibar on August 28, 2004, 02:00:54 am

Ahhhh... I totally forgot about the .NET framework!

  Yes, the system was formatted and completely re-done from scratch... thus, no .NET framework...

  you da man!  :-)

  thanks!
  Mike B

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: exibar on August 28, 2004, 04:12:38 am

Darn, it's still doing the same thing :-(

  I've uninstalled and re-installed MameWah from scratch, and when I click on the icon, the screen flickers for a breif second and nothing...

  I can see MameWah go into the process list under task mamager, but then it goes right back out.  It's never running for more than half a second....

   This is on a scratch install XP pro, on a PIII800 w/512 RAM...

  I've tried using mamewah setup as well, that runs fine, but doesn't help my problem :-(

  thanks all!
  Mike B

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: exibar on August 28, 2004, 11:40:36 am

interesting, I applies XP SP2 and now mamewah runs fine..... strange because I know that mamewah runs fine wihtout XP2 as it's running fine on this machine....

interesting..
perhaps there is something in SP1 that is needed by mamewah?

  Mike B

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: Goz on August 28, 2004, 01:04:34 pm

In SP1 and SP2 you do get updated Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's). Maybe one of the DLL's was hosed. I have Mamewah running on one of my cabs which doesn't have SP1 or SP2 on it.

hey as long as it works......

-Goz

Title: Re:mamewah won't run :-(
Post by: Minwah on August 30, 2004, 03:20:00 pm

Just to confirm MAMEWAH does *not* require .NET framework!

Also, (in theory at least), it does not require XP SP1 or SP2 (obviously SP2 has only just come out).  MW ran before SP1 even came out...

Can't really explain why it didn't work before, glad it works now tho :)