Unable to launch sdl win32 games

SDL Development
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Hi All,

I am unable to launch sdl win32 games from a 16 bit visual basic(4.0) catalog application. These games run fine on win 98, but when i try to launch them through the catalog application it doesn’t launch. I have tried with ‘winexec’ and ‘shell’ functions. All other 32 bit applications are launching without problems. Is there anything specific that has to be taken care of in sdl 32 bit games.

Can anyone help here?

regards
sachin

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Do you have an error message? (“File not found”, the SDL games
complaining about not being able to find their data files, or
whatever…)

BTW, why use a 16 bit VB!? :slight_smile: Win16 -> Win32 portability issues? Seen
that in Pascal, C and C++, though there’s really no excuse for it in
any reasonably CPU independent language. Feels like these problems
were created on purpose.

//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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— http://olofson.net — http://www.reologica.se —On Monday 30 August 2004 07.38, sachina wrote:

Hi All,

I am unable to launch sdl win32 games from a 16 bit visual
basic(4.0) catalog application. These games run fine on win 98, but
when i try to launch them through the catalog application it
doesn’t launch. I have tried with ‘winexec’ and ‘shell’ functions.
All other 32 bit applications are launching without problems. Is
there anything specific that has to be taken care of in sdl 32 bit
games.

Can anyone help here?