my haxmedit dos version doesn't work on my Pentium 4

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:48 pm

When I open haxmedit (dos) with haxmedit32, haxmedit (dos) closes, it used to work on my old Windows XP, but not any more on my current Windows XP(home edition), how do I make Haxmedit dos work?

Oops, Wrong section!

Mod, Move this to "Coder's corner"

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:20 am

?? I don't think it's a Coder's Corner topic. Descent Development maybe?

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:39 pm

I like it just where it is.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:36 pm

Need some help here.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:22 am

After you run it, try alt+enter to go to full screen. It's ASCII-ish, so, by default, Windows thinks it can run windowed.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:00 pm

When I open the HAXMEDIT DOS Program Manually without opening it with Haxmedit32, my computer froze, what should I do?

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:23 pm

Why use Haxmedit DOS and not Haxmedit32? That, along with Rbotview and Polytron, should ocver all the bases, shouldn't it?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:38 pm

This is getting way confusing.

EDIT: Good point Kyouryuu! My RBotedit, Polytron, and my PMView still works. but the only tool that doesn't work is the dos version of haxmedit. oh well.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:24 pm

Maybe you have the infamous divide by zero condition. In some situations, assembler code make a timing and then a division based on that timing. Older software containing that code running on faster computers may run so fast, the timing resolves to zero and the CPU hangs on a divide by zero error.

However, if you're running it in a virtual and protected environment (like Windows) it shouldn't take the whole machine down, only the program itself.

If you don't understand the above, ignore it. It's not really relevant anyway

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:31 pm

Why use Haxmedit DOS and not Haxmedit32?

Haxmedit DOS allows more than Haxmedit32 under certain conditions, and, ergo, is/was preferred by modders. If this isn't an issue, though, I agree.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:47 pm

I never used the Win32 binary myself because, back in the days of Windows 98 yore, it was easier to use the MS-DOS version. It wouldn't surprise me if some features were missing.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:41 pm

I can't remember the specifics exactly, but I think 32 didn't allow you to edit weapon info from any ham file, whereas DOS allowed it so long as it wasn't your descent2.ham file, or at least a file named descent2.ham, not sure of their determining methods. It was more of a matter of their hacker protection or something. I don't think either allowed modifying ship info in any condition, but you could still use the programs to determine offsets and use a hex editor to do it yourself.

And, yeah, 32 was definitely a resource whore back in the 9x days, if that's what you're referring to.