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Running G M 6.1 Games Under Vista, Converter program available

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Dangerous_Dave View Member Profile	Aug 2 2008, 11:18 PM Post #101
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 6963 Joined: 2-March 04 Member No.: 6610	The runner in GM6 exes is compressed, making for about 1mb smaller that a gm7 exe. However, vista doesn't like the compression, so the converter just changes it to an uncompressed version. The vista converted exe will still run under XP, it will just be a MB bigger than it was before.

gmuser View Member Profile	Aug 2 2008, 11:46 PM Post #102
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 839 Joined: 9-April 06 Member No.: 47783	Thanks for the explanation. I'll probably upload 2 .exe's then. so people with Windows XP will have a 1MB smaller file size.

Recreate View Member Profile	Aug 9 2008, 03:41 AM Post #103
Rocketsnail King Group: GMC Member Posts: 2374 Joined: 5-April 08 From: NULL Member No.: 103863	This is awsome! This is exactly what ive been looking for!

morphosis View Member Profile	Sep 9 2008, 02:24 PM Post #104
Enter-Active Group: Local Moderators Posts: 595 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Cincinnati, Ohio - USA Member No.: 308	The link seems to be broken. J

yellowsix View Member Profile	Sep 9 2008, 02:46 PM Post #105
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 300 Joined: 21-September 05 From: Ede, The Netherlands Member No.: 35515	QUOTE (morphosis @ Sep 9 2008, 04:24 PM) The link seems to be broken. J Yeah I can't reach it too. Pretty annoying since the only one I have registered is GM6. (admitted, it was not legal) Nevermind though. I'm buying GM7 Pro for my new education. (yay, programming at school! ) Just too bad PayPal is taking ages to transfer money. This post has been edited by yellowsix: Sep 9 2008, 02:47 PM

Ebonic_and_Night... Ebonic_and_Nightwisp View Member Profile	Sep 9 2008, 07:42 PM Post #106
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 253 Joined: 1-August 06 From: CALIFORNIA!!!! Member No.: 56149	Something is wrong with the link

Dangerous_Dave View Member Profile	Sep 10 2008, 04:51 AM Post #107
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 6963 Joined: 2-March 04 Member No.: 6610	You can get the converter here. It appears Yoyo games restructured their site.

00zach000 View Member Profile	Sep 19 2008, 09:24 PM Post #108
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 97 Joined: 6-March 07 Member No.: 72624	just what the doctor ordered

Recreate View Member Profile	Sep 23 2008, 08:08 PM Post #109
Rocketsnail King Group: GMC Member Posts: 2374 Joined: 5-April 08 From: NULL Member No.: 103863	Awsome!

carterv View Member Profile	Jan 13 2009, 06:24 AM Post #110
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 4 Joined: 3-January 09 Member No.: 126088	hmm never tried to run those but i have a problem with gm 7.0 games under vista running. they just stop working almost all the time

kewinBoy View Member Profile	Jan 14 2009, 01:44 PM Post #111
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 1 Joined: 11-January 09 Member No.: 126526	right

blackhawkrobbo View Member Profile	Mar 8 2009, 10:59 PM Post #112
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 151 Joined: 3-September 06 From: Leusden (Holland) Member No.: 58649	hmm. funny to see that you still use the old GM4 idea, a runner exe and the recources. only now you have the runner + recources compiled into 1 exe.. all you do is change the runner. Its not smart to keep it that way, but its very usefull when you look at it this way.

HeroofTime55 View Member Profile	Apr 9 2009, 08:13 PM Post #113
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 99 Joined: 20-April 04 Member No.: 8581	Thank you, Mark.

mrsmes View Member Profile	Apr 21 2009, 05:50 AM Post #114
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 619 Joined: 6-March 07 From: Perth, Australia Member No.: 72610	QUOTE Will DLLs and other external file reading/writing/loading be affected by converting your GM6 exe for Vista compatability? well not as far as I am aware you see I once did this with a friend when making the first beta release of the dock I am working on but we soon come to realize and after a while and with newer functions wanted and tools to be added we had to make it a .gmk and we didn't loose anything but all of our .gm6 and .gmk file was running smoothly, we had to merge to .gmk for GM7.0 and allow adding newer tools and when I learned I could soon write my own DLL with C++ to make more handier and newer things that the program needs for certain functions I just thought as I learn how I am hopping straight into it, and the dock began rocketing off with amazing things and how there will be some things I cannot do currently because their are no pre existing DLLs for the functions I need so I can give the program more features and things the user can do and a ease of interface in my own custom GUI made with GM we started getting the project on smooth sailing.

Hello-World View Member Profile	Aug 8 2009, 06:42 PM Post #115
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 58 Joined: 4-April 08 Member No.: 103765	Excellent Job Mark! I just had to say it man, excellent job!

ui_dsa View Member Profile	Nov 7 2009, 05:07 PM Post #116
GMC Member Group: GMC Member Posts: 132 Joined: 23-December 06 Member No.: 66750	Do these EXEs work under Windows 7?

acrog2 View Member Profile	Nov 7 2009, 05:23 PM Post #117
average user Group: GMC Member Posts: 1065 Joined: 3-March 07 From: self.x,self.y,self.z Member No.: 72385	They should, but that may not be the case -acrog2

ev149 View Member Profile	Nov 7 2009, 05:34 PM Post #118
McClane Games Group: GMC Member Posts: 633 Joined: 1-July 07 From: Somewhere Member No.: 82501	QUOTE (ui_dsa @ Nov 7 2009, 12:07 PM) Do these EXEs work under Windows 7? Yes (under Windows 7 x64 RTM).

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