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Posted: April 21 2002, 18:42
Seems I'm the only one here still using Win9x (even worse, Win95;-). All I get from the demo is an instant crash with something about 'missing export KERNEL32.DLL:TryEnterCriticalSection'.
According to Google, this means that the Demo will only run on NT/2k/XP -
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrgghhhhhh--
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Posted: April 22 2002, 10:26
I am using Windows 98 and I have no problems with the demo!
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Posted: April 22 2002, 12:01
I'm using Windows 98SE and the demo runs (albeit very jerky at times and there's distortion when I look down).

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Posted: April 22 2002, 17:18
rolleyesOK OK OK...
Looks like its Update Time for my (t)rusty ol'95 :-( Got hold of a '98SE kernel32.dll, and found that &%ยง&$ entry, so '98 at least seems to tolerate that call, though M$ says it's supported only for NT and up. Never Mind..
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Posted: April 25 2002, 15:36
I cannot run the program on windows XP. frown every time i start it up it says that it created an error and then it asks if i want to send an error log or not. d'oh! but i'm not that upset, because i'm more in it for the music anyways. ONE MONTH AND TWO DAYS!! WHOOPPPEE!!

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Posted: Sep. 11 2002, 11:11
Just of curiosity - is there anyone else around here who would like to play  the demo resp. game, but can't, because of still using Win95 ?
From what I've seen (now that I upgraded to Win98), that silly 'TryEnterCriticalSection' call that only works properly in the NT/2k/XP line has been taken out in between. However, a few other system calls that only work from '98 up (well, at least they work...) have been taken in instead :( )
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