RulesPlayer will not start on Win98SE ?? Anybody can help?

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Island Boy · #1 Post by **Island Boy** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:16 pm

"DWT Unicode verion applications can't run in a non-Unicde Platform !"

pops up when I try to run it.

RulesPlayer is listed as Win9x compatable right?

I have "UNOFFICIAL Windows98 Second Edition Service Pack 2.1a" installed (which comes with "Microsoft Layer for Unicode")

HELP!

ashghost · #2 Post by **ashghost** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:41 pm

Island Boy

I found the answer (or the statement that it won't work) for you in the RulesPlayer Forums.
http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic ... ht=unicode

Basically, the developer said back in December that Win 9x support is currently broken and s/he hopes to have it working in the next release.

I suppose that means the TPFC entry should be updated to reflect that.

By the way, Rules Player has a new website - the old one is gone, so that should also be updated in the database:

http://rulesplayer.altervista.org/

Island Boy · #3 Post by **Island Boy** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:28 pm

Thanks for the info ashghost.

I will try & get a a diffrent Win 9x gui....

but portablefreeware's "MPlayerGUI V0.5.03" download link broken

& "SMPlayer V0.6.0rc4" is unstable on 98.

so sad....

ashghost · #4 Post by **ashghost** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:54 am

If you just need to get Mplayer running with a gui, you can try the "official" gui package, MPlayer 1.0rc2 Windows GUI at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

It's more focused on looks than ease-of-use. There are a bunch of skins available further down the page.

ashghost · #5 Post by **ashghost** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:59 am

I thought I'd Google "mplayergui" to see if I could track it down. It's available at Softpedia and Download.com.

However, from the screenshots it appears that it got rolled into the Mplayer project - it's the same gui as the "official" gui.

EDIT:

It's a little more confusing that that. It looks like the old mplayerGUI (boxy, Win32 looks and menus) has moved here:

website: http://jasonyang.cn.googlepages.com/mplayergui

download: http://jasonyang.cn.googlepages.com/MPl ... 17_Lite.7z

That will probably be your best bet for Win 9x.

But the author's name is on those downloads from Softpedia and Download.com that use the "official" gui.

The Portable Freeware Collection Forums

RulesPlayer will not start on Win98SE ?? Anybody can help?

RulesPlayer will not start on Win98SE ?? Anybody can help?

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