BoA Will Not Activate
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Warrior
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written Thursday, October 7 2004 09:49
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I just received my copy of BoA on CD in the mail. I attempted to load it up on my old laptop, a Compaq using Win95, and everything installes just fine. But when I try to open the program after installing it I get this message, Blades of Avernum EXE file is linked to missing export KERNEL.DLL:GetLongPathNameA Can anyone tell me both what this means and what I can do to get around it. Please also keep in mind that the laptop in question is not connected to the internet, hence the CD, nor do I have any intention of changing that. -------------------- If Magic is your crutch, cast it off and walk without. Diablo 1 Manual Truth is good manners, manners are a fiction. Mark Twain Posts: 64 | Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
Member # 618
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written Thursday, October 7 2004 11:06
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It's already been discussed a couple of times, most recent is here http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000499 Bottom line, Win95 + BoA = Oh dear... Posts: 1487 | Registered: Sunday, February 10 2002 08:00 |
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Guardian
Member # 2476
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written Saturday, October 9 2004 07:25
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Win95 can't read long path names. I don't know, if there's a patch for this problem, but it does make me angry that spiderweb advertizes BoA for Win95 on their site without giving a hint how to solve this. [ Saturday, October 09, 2004 07:25: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00 |
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Agent
Member # 618
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written Saturday, October 9 2004 11:15
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Hmmm... if there is a patch, then http://www.windowsupdate.com/ might have it. If they don't have anything to solve it, you're going to have to upgrade m'afraid. Posts: 1487 | Registered: Sunday, February 10 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, October 10 2004 04:12
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Note that BoA works fine on Win98. -------------------- Apparently still annoying. Posts: 612 | Registered: Saturday, October 13 2001 07:00 |