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I am trying to play some older replays made in mame57 or mame60. I get a message that my COMCTL32.DLL is out of date. Is there any fix for this? Can I download a version of that DLL and put it in my mame folder?

check out this thread..

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=14409

you'll end up using DOSBOX to run mame,
it should work.. dont' worry about the error message..

later
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negative1 wrote:you'll end up using DOSBOX to run mame,
it should work.. dont' worry about the error message..

uhhh... if it''s asking for a DLL, then it's obviously not the DOS version of MAME... And the main OS for MAME has been Windows since 0.37b15.

if i recall, i ran into the same problem last month, and yes, you can. seems i had to pull a few .dlls off the web to get things running.

mahlemiut wrote:

negative1 wrote:you'll end up using DOSBOX to run mame,
it should work.. dont' worry about the error message..

uhhh... if it''s asking for a DLL, then it's obviously not the DOS version of MAME... And the main OS for MAME has been Windows since 0.37b15.

i guess what i meant, is that Vista/Xp don't run DOS natively,that's why its easier to emulate it and
run older versions of MAME on it, instead of finding an old computer..

that COM dll, is for the dialog boxes, and mame gets confused so it complains.. that's what i
meant to say.... WINDOWS isn't technically an OS.. it's a GUI on top of the NT kernel (at least since XP)..
for windows 95/98, yeah they were also GUI's bolted onto the WIN32 kernel... anyways, whatever works for you..

later
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Windows XP is simply Windows NT 5.1, Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0, Vista is Windows NT 6.0, Windows 7 should be obvious.

Windows 95/98/Me are all based on top of MS-DOS, which is why they can run DOS applications much better. It's also the reason they are so unstable.

Win32 is a collective term for any 32-bit version of Windows, be it Win95 or XP or Windows NT 3.51.