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Uplink installation problems!!

GreenCardGreenCard
edited April 2010 in Chit chat
I've been trying to install an old game, Uplink on my PC (from an original CD). When I used to play it years ago, I was running it in Win98 on an old system of mine, and it worked fine. I'm now trying to install it in XP, but when I click the setup icon in the install folder, nothing happens, nothing at all!!

On the back of the box, it says it's compatible with XP, and I've asked on the Introversion website if I need an XP installer for it and they say I don't.

Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?! It's driving me mad!! :-x
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Just for the procreation of it, try running it in Safe Mode.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Just for the procreation of it, try running it in Safe Mode.

    I've tried it all, no joy. No one in the Introversion forums seems to know anything either, the best I got was a "well it works fine for me" kind of answer.

    I've given up now, and resorted to obtaining the game through "other means"!! :wink:
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Have you tried to run it in Compatibility mode? (win85, win98)
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Have you tried to run it in Compatibility mode? (win85, win98)

    Yep, tried that... Nothing, zilch, nada!!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Did you try copying it from the CD to your HD? If you did, then make sure you have "Show hidden files and folders" on along with "Hide protected operating system files" UNchecked. Just to make sure you're not leaving any files behind.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Did you try copying it from the CD to your HD? If you did, then make sure you have "Show hidden files and folders" on along with "Hide protected operating system files" UNchecked. Just to make sure you're not leaving any files behind.

    No, didn't even think of that, to be honest... I'll give it a go now. :smile:
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Did you try copying it from the CD to your HD? If you did, then make sure you have "Show hidden files and folders" on along with "Hide protected operating system files" UNchecked. Just to make sure you're not leaving any files behind.

    Grrrrrr!! Still nothing!! Thanks for the suggestions though. :-)
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    The setup.exe or install.exe ... check to see if it's a generic one and then go hunt on the Inet for a similar/newer/older version. Back then (and still actually) they used standard installation suites.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    Nope, no sign of a newer setup or install anywhere!!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    You checked the properties of the install/setup .exe file? That might tell you which suite was used ... report back.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    To create the installer itself? InstallShield Software is all it tells me!!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Does it tell you what version? (under Properties of the file)
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    Oh yeah, sorry... Version 5.10.130.0.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Try and see if you can get the same .exe file (w. the same version number or maybe a little above or below) on the Inet.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    Ok, I can't seem to find a newer version of the file. But I did come across this guy, who seems to be having the same problem as me:

    http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=130715

    In that page somwhere there's a link to this:

    http://kb.acresso.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=Q101254&sliceId=

    Is InstallShield 5.5 Professional what I need?



    (Yeah, that's right... I'm a bit fick)
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    From what I can see this might be your answer ... but keep in mind that they do mention this does not work from the CD itself ... you might have to copy the whole thing over to your HD and even then it might have issues depending on what sort of anti-copying measures they have implemented.

    Try it out though, and then blame it on someone else ... err ... like Boozie or Beanzie ... if it goes wrong, mmmkay.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Try it out though, and then blame it on someone else ... err ... like Boozie or Beanzie ... if it goes wrong, mmmkay.

    :lol:

    Noted. Will do.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    You shouldn't have any problems ...

    (famous last words?)
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited June 2008
    The answers easy, find another game to play :-P
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Maybe Karingal will patch his Spud to work with that game for you.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Maybe Karingal will patch his Spud to work with that game for you.

    Meh? I not understands what mean you!!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Karingal's offspring by the name of Spud, happens to be a Speccy emulator work-in-progress, is capable of going almost anywhere right now. Maybe it will end up as a holo-suite, perhaps as the sequel to LOTL, or mayhap just a patch for your game ... all of the above, who knows. Happy coding Mr Gal, K.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2009
    Sorry to bump this thread folks, but I desperately need help (erm, computer-wise, I mean).

    I'm still not able to install certain programs in XP, programs that I have been able to install in XP in the past that now just don't seem to work at all. I've noticed that the programs I'm having trouble with are ones with old installers... Uplink, for example, uses setup.exe version 5.10.130.0 which doesn't work (when I click on the setup icon nothing happens). However, I've just installed another program with a slightly newer installer (setup.exe version 6.2.100.1249) and it works fine.

    I've been having this trouble for quite some time, and have since reformatted twice and still no joy. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2009
    I always use dosbox.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2009
    beanz wrote: »
    I always use dosbox.

    Yep, I've been using DOSBox for the older games/programs I've been trying to run, but the later Windows progs I'm trying to run (such as Uplink) don't install in DOS unfortunately.

    EDIT: I did install VirtualBox a while back to see if I could set up Win98 to run these older progs, but my PC is far too rubbish to run VirtualBox at a decent speed!!
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2009
    Ah I see. Well no help but I have a Pentium 200mhz running Win98 and Dos 6.22 for old PC retro gaming goodness. You can pick one up dirt cheap or make one easily if you do a lot of 'retro PCing'.

    It's also fun to spend hours playing around with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get that extra memory to run those memory demanding games....quite a game in itself...604kb free..yipee!

    Damn..the hours I used to spend refining my bootup files/disk.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited March 2009
    I'm having a similar problem with Myst and it's sequels. I brought a box set of them a while ago, but not a single one will install. I've tried everything that I can think of to try and get them to work, but nothing. I'd have taken it back, but I'd had the set for 4 or 5 months before I even got around to rying to install them.

    Also, Monkey Island 3 is a bugger to get working too. I've managed it once, but since uninstalling it a while ago to free up drive space, I can't get it to install again.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    Also, Monkey Island 3 is a bugger to get working too. I've managed it once, but since uninstalling it a while ago to free up drive space, I can't get it to install again.

    Funnily enough, that's one of the games I'm having trouble with too... the autorun starts, but when I click install nothing happens.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2010
    GreenCard wrote: »
    I'm still not able to install certain programs in XP, programs that I have been able to install in XP in the past that now just don't seem to work at all. I've noticed that the programs I'm having trouble with are ones with old installers... Uplink, for example, uses setup.exe version 5.10.130.0 which doesn't work (when I click on the setup icon nothing happens). However, I've just installed another program with a slightly newer installer (setup.exe version 6.2.100.1249) and it works fine.

    Sorry to bump this thread *yet again*!!

    My brother has finally managed to sort this problem out... turns out that my XP hadn't installed a particular file properly ("wow32"), and so certain installers would just hang. He's downloaded the file, stuck it in the "system32" folder, and now all is installing as it should (tried it with Uplink and Monkey Island 3, two of the games I had issues with, and all is working fine). I'm proper chuffed... props to my bro!! Word!!

    Just thought I'd share this with you lot, in case anyone else has had the same problem. :smile:
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 2010
    Thanks for the tip.
    Maybe some of the older games need to be started from or installed on a true DOS environment. If that ever happens, try one of the many bootable MS DOS CDs that are now available online. Some of them also include NTFS support.
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