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Posted May 21, 2014
Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anybody help?
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Post edited May 21, 2014 by RevolutionSphere
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Posted May 21, 2014
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You can try the following steps which I found online while searching for this particular error:

- You can expand a new copy of the EXE from your Windows install CD-Rom

- From a command prompt you can expand the file. An example;

- expand E:\I386\wowexec.ex_ %systemroot%\system32\wowexec.exe
would expand a new copy to the \system32 directory.

Also you'll want to use the correct version for the service pack level
you're at. So you may need to extract the file from a service pack.

Hope this is of some use to you. :)
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
It's probably because the game is 16-bit and you may be installing it on a 64-bit system...which no longer supports 16-bit games.

edit: unless you are running the game on a much older system :)
Post edited May 21, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
Try installing the game on Virtual PC with Win98. I've managed to run a lot of early-Windows games this way
Posted May 21, 2014
I also have my copy Windows XP, if that still helps.
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
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Ghorpm: Try installing the game on Virtual PC with Win98. I've managed to run a lot of early-Windows games this way
To be honested I'm so keen on VM's, also don't you need the windows product key to use them?
Post edited May 21, 2014 by RevolutionSphere
Posted May 21, 2014
Wow, I've never heard of that game before but it looks interesting! It's on the GOG Wishlist.
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
You could try running it under Linux in Wine :)
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: I also have my copy Windows XP, if that still helps.
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Ghorpm: Try installing the game on Virtual PC with Win98. I've managed to run a lot of early-Windows games this way
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RevolutionSphere: To be honested I'm so keen on VM's, also don't you need the windows product key to use them?
Frankly, I don't know... I have Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) and installing Virtual PC with Win98 was not a problem. However, when I tried to install Win XP I was asked to upgrade my Windows first (not for free of course) so I passed. It was like ~3 years ago though so I'm not sure how accurate this might be. The one thing I know for sure - a lot of games that refuse to run on Win 7 can be played on Virtual PC with Win98. And they run flawlessly so I would still advise you to take a look at that subject :)
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
A virtual machine with Win98 or WinXP would be a good solution. VMware is free and pretty good.

Myself I have a second HDD with WinXP-32-bit and I boot from there when I want to play "old" games.

I don't know H.E.D.Z, but consider that if it uses 256 colors (pallete) it won't display colors correctly even if you manage to run it in 64-bit Windows.
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: Hi all, I recently found my old copy of H.E.D.Z which I was very happy to see and I thought I could get to playing it right away. But I now get upon trying to install a messge pop ups from Windows, something to do with a 16 bit module.

Could anyway help?
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phandom: A virtual machine with Win98 or WinXP would be a good solution. VMware is free and pretty good.

Myself I have a second HDD with WinXP-32-bit and I boot from there when I want to play "old" games.

I don't know H.E.D.Z, but consider that if it uses 256 colors (pallete) it won't display colors correctly even if you manage to run it in 64-bit Windows.
I'm currently using Windows XP 32 bit but I might the VM a go
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: I also have my copy Windows XP, if that still helps.

To be honested I'm so keen on VM's, also don't you need the windows product key to use them?
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Ghorpm: Frankly, I don't know... I have Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) and installing Virtual PC with Win98 was not a problem. However, when I tried to install Win XP I was asked to upgrade my Windows first (not for free of course) so I passed. It was like ~3 years ago though so I'm not sure how accurate this might be. The one thing I know for sure - a lot of games that refuse to run on Win 7 can be played on Virtual PC with Win98. And they run flawlessly so I would still advise you to take a look at that subject :)
Windows XP Mode (which is effectively a preconficured VM with Windows XP preinstalled, running on VirtualPC) requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate. However, if you have a Windows XP licence lying around, you're free to install that to a virtual machine (whether you're running Microsoft VirtualPC, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player, Oracle VirtualBox, or qemu) regardless of your underlying OS.
Post edited May 21, 2014 by Maighstir
Posted May 21, 2014
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Ghorpm: Frankly, I don't know... I have Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) and installing Virtual PC with Win98 was not a problem. However, when I tried to install Win XP I was asked to upgrade my Windows first (not for free of course) so I passed. It was like ~3 years ago though so I'm not sure how accurate this might be. The one thing I know for sure - a lot of games that refuse to run on Win 7 can be played on Virtual PC with Win98. And they run flawlessly so I would still advise you to take a look at that subject :)
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Maighstir: Windows XP Mode (which is effectively a preconficured VM with Windows XP preinstalled, running on VirtualPC) requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate. However, if you have a Windows XP licence lying around, you're free to install that to a virtual machine (whether you're running Microsoft VirtualPC, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player, Oracle VirtualBox, or qemu) regardless of your underlying OS.
I still do a have XP Licence, which VM would you recommend?
Posted May 21, 2014
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Ghorpm: Frankly, I don't know... I have Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) and installing Virtual PC with Win98 was not a problem. However, when I tried to install Win XP I was asked to upgrade my Windows first (not for free of course) so I passed. It was like ~3 years ago though so I'm not sure how accurate this might be. The one thing I know for sure - a lot of games that refuse to run on Win 7 can be played on Virtual PC with Win98. And they run flawlessly so I would still advise you to take a look at that subject :)
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Maighstir: Windows XP Mode (which is effectively a preconficured VM with Windows XP preinstalled, running on VirtualPC) requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate. However, if you have a Windows XP licence lying around, you're free to install that to a virtual machine (whether you're running Microsoft VirtualPC, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player, Oracle VirtualBox, or qemu) regardless of your underlying OS.
TBH I don't even remember why did I try to install it so it's not that I need it but thanks, I still have XP license so I'll keep that in mind.
Posted May 21, 2014
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Maighstir: Windows XP Mode (which is effectively a preconficured VM with Windows XP preinstalled, running on VirtualPC) requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate. However, if you have a Windows XP licence lying around, you're free to install that to a virtual machine (whether you're running Microsoft VirtualPC, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Player, Oracle VirtualBox, or qemu) regardless of your underlying OS.
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RevolutionSphere: I still do a have XP Licence, which VM would you recommend?
* VirtualBox is simple enough, and has some Direct3D 9/OpenGL support.
* VMWare Workstation is the most powerful/function-rich by far, but does cost money and is likely more than you actally need.
* VMWare Player is a "lite" version of Workstation and - I think - has similar hardware capabilities as its brother (with 3D support and whatnot).
* I don't like VirtualPC at all (it has one good thing - all its emulated hardware identifies as "real" hardware that has drivers for any OS you may install).
* qemu is neither fast nor user-friendly (it's good on Linux, due to KVM for speed and libvirt for userfriendlyness, and it can emulate several CPU architectures because it actually emulates the CPU rather than passes it though).

There are other hypervisors (Hyper-V for Windows 8 and Server 2008 and newer, Xen for Linux, Solaris and NetBSD, ...), but I don't know much about those.
Post edited May 21, 2014 by Maighstir
Posted May 21, 2014
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RevolutionSphere: I still do a have XP Licence, which VM would you recommend?
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Maighstir: * VirtualBox is simple enough, and has some Direct3D 9/OpenGL support.
* VMWare Workstation is the most powerful/function-rich by far, but does cost money and is likely more than you actally need.
* VMWare Player is a "lite" version of Workstation and - I think - has similar hardware capabilities as its brother (with 3D support and whatnot).
* I don't like VirtualPC at all (it has one good thing - all its emulated hardware identifies as "real" hardware that has drivers for any OS you may install).
* qemu is neither fast nor user-friendly (it's good on Linux, due to KVM for speed and libvirt for userfriendlyness, and it can emulate several CPU architectures because it actually emulates the CPU rather than passes it though).

There are other hypervisors (Hyper-V for Windows 8 and Server 2008 and newer, Xen for Linux, Solaris and NetBSD, ...), but I don't know much about those.
But then again, I shouldn't need to use a VM, considering that I'm using XP. I will use it as a last resort option.
Post edited May 21, 2014 by RevolutionSphere
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