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[23skidoo]

I can't get the Sound Manager to work on my Vic 20, either.

[HrSys]

Gambold wrote:
"I can't get the Sound Manager to work on my Vic 20, either."

Hello Gambie,
Maybe it's a floppy /tape problem. I think the NE4 is not recognazed by the Commodore (flagship only).
I suggest you try to load NSM with a Minitel and keep on playing pacman (while downloading and debugging).
so patiently waiting...
Harvey

[Mr_-G-]

Would help to know some details. How far do you get if at all in the Install process? If it gives you an error immediately try unpacking (its a zip archive) and run the USB driver & Sound Manager installs separately.
Run "sysdm.cpl" and post what version of XP it says on the General tab.

sysdm.cpl returns "version 2002"
The program installs fine, when running it, a window is shown saying that the program "is not a valid win32 application".
There are no options set in the compatibility mode (which are for older version of windows).

[Phun Tunes]

sysdm.cpl returns "version 2002"
The program installs fine, when running it, a window is shown saying that the program "is not a valid win32 application".
There are no options set in the compatibility mode (which are for older version of windows).

Its been a while but I am pretty sure version 2002 is 64 bit version of Win XP. It should say on that screen.

[Mr_-G-]

Please guys stop hijacking this thread.

[Mr_-G-]

Its been a while but I am pretty sure version 2002 is 64 bit version of Win XP. It should say on that screen.

It is the "Multimedia edition" of XP. But not 64bit in the same sense of win7.

[Phun Tunes]

Its been a while but I am pretty sure version 2002 is 64 bit version of Win XP. It should say on that screen.

It is the "Multimedia edition" of XP. But not 64bit in the same sense of win7.

I think you mean Media Center Edition (never heard of multimedia edition)
Can you post a screenshot of the Media Center version screen. If you go to Control Panel/System there should be a tab or button (can't remember which) for "About Media Center" that should include the entire versioning plus the CPU info.


I'm going to see later if I can dig out my old XP laptop that's a standard XP installation and see if Nord Sound Manager installs on that one.

[Mr_-G-]

Yes! Media Center Edition! sorry!
Will do when I am in the front of the computer (I am away at the moment). Thanks for looking into that.

[Mr_-G-]

Mr_-G-, I installed v7.42 on an ancient Dell Inspirion 6000 series laptop tonight, loaded with XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3, an unabashedly 32-bit OS (and also listed as Version 2002).

The install went fine, the latest/greatest driver was bundled and auto-installed with it (nice touch). Opening the app nets exactly the same popup message that you saw: "C:\Program Files\Clavia\Nord Sound Manager v7.42\Nord Sound Manager v7.42.exe is not a valid 32-bit application."

The registry seemed fine. Nothing out of the ordinary in Event Viewer. I tried some online remedies, such as regsvr32, but nothing seemed to help.

That said, XP Media Center Edition was a essentially a set of extensions to XP Pro, which should have been 64-bit, with 32-bit compatibility. Sounds like something might be fooling XP MCE into thinking SM is 32-bit, when it's not? Or vice-versa?

(Thread snark aside, I generally agree that support for a 12-year-old obsolete OS is a bit of a stretch at this point.)

[23skidoo]

Ahem, Windows XP is almost 18 years old by now.