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ACME SAC (Stand Alone Complex) - The ACME editor for Windows/Mac/Linux
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Acme.exe v0.14 for Windows Doesn't Start #38

Open trevor-ian-nguyen opened 6 years ago

trevor-ian-nguyen commented 6 years ago

I downloaded Acme.exe v0.14 to a Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit system. When I run the executable, the app never starts (its window never displays, and it does not appear in the Task Manager list)

I tried to run the app as the normal logged in user and also as administrator.

bpotvin commented 6 years ago

I had a similar problem last night. I pulled the repo here, but when I tried to run the Acme.exe tossed an error saying that it was an un-supported 16-bit application. Looking at the binary, though, it's for sure a PE executable, albeit one that's apparently corrupt. So, I fixed things by using an older acme windows build. The google code archive site for acme-sac has a number of older builds available in the "downloads" section:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/acme-sac/

I used the Acme-0.13.zip archive. After making sure it ran, I cloned the repo here, replaced the fuxor'd acme.exe with the one from the Acme-0.13.zip archive and then went about rebuilding the /sys/ directory using VS2017. That (eventually) worked and now everything's good.

eekee commented 5 years ago

Same here, although it doesn't tell me "16-bit". Thanks for the instructions.

aks2161989 commented 4 years ago

@bpotvin Thank you for the instructions! I was able to build iacme.exe using your instructions. However, there is a problem:iacme.exe does not launch when I double-click it. I am on Windows 10. Were you able to get it working?

aks2161989 commented 4 years ago

@bpotvin I moved iacme.exe from the \acme-sac-master\sys\emu\Nt directory to \acme-sac-master. I can now open iacme.exe by double clicking it, but the fonts are all messed up

Screenshot (32)

Do the fonts render correctly for you?

bpotvin commented 4 years ago

@aks2161989,

Yes, everything works for me. I haven't seen anything like that before; no idea what it might be.

Regarding fonts, I'm using only the fonts that are included here. I know there are other fonts available, for example from the vitanuova site, but I've not tried using any others.

On startup, (see /sys/emu/port/main.c), the code looks for "INFERNO" and "ROOT" environment vars to define the root directory. If neither are set, the default appears to be the directory from which acme.exe is loaded. I use $ROOT for other things and that created a problem once; that might be something to check.

Also, I'm doing 32-bit builds; I've not tried to do a 64-bit build and have no idea if it would work.

I did a complete re-build from scratch today. I'm attaching two files, one with the steps to do the rebuild and the second with the window output of the build from within acme.

README_REBUILD.TXT

build-output.txt

aks2161989 commented 4 years ago

@bpotvin Thank you for taking the time to rebuild acme and also for saving the build log. I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, I tried following the exact steps in your build-log.txt and the build is successful (as before). But I get the same distorted display/fonts as my earlier comment. I guess I will have to dig deep into the source code/config files to determine the problem. Thank you once again!

retsi101 commented 2 years ago

The distortion only happens to me on Windows 7 if I have my taskbar fixed on the sides.

eekee commented 2 years ago

I have my taskbar fixed to the side in Windows 10.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, at 1:54 AM, V. Fabiano wrote:

The distortion only happens to me on Windows 7 if I have my taskbar fixed on the sides.

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meetkool commented 1 month ago

@bpotvin do u still have the build ? can u release it