editor doesnot run on XP 64

[kritter]

The game runs on XP64 why doesn't the editor? It tries and says it is not the operating system it expected. Can someone please fix it.

[Shark7]

Sounds like an old program on a new OS. I will report this to the rest of the team.

[kritter]

Please do, Harpoon 3 and its editor runs on XP64, I do not know why just the editor for this game does not. Now that most of the chips are 64 bit you would think most software would run on a 64 bit operating system.

[TonyE]

Well, I've stated it many times before but posts obviously get hard to find when there are lots of new ones.
 
The Scenario Editor will not work on 64-bit version of windows because 64-bit versions of windows don't have a 16-bit Windows subsystem like 32-bit versions of Windows have.
 
Your work around is to run an emulator such as VMWare and a 32-bit operating system inside of that in order to use the SE.
 
 

[kritter]

Why does the game run on 64 bit? Why not just recompile it? Is this difficult?

[TonyE]

The game runs on 64-bit because 64-bit versions of Windows have a 32-bit emulator.  64-bit versions of windows no longer have a 16-bit emulator, that's why the SE doesn't run on them.
 
The move from 16-bit to 32-bit in terms of coding is not trivial.  Two very talented programmers tried and did not make it all that far.  I have a 32-bit version of the scenario editor I managed to convert from 16-bit but it is nowhere near stable or useable.