tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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elcabesa
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tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

Post by elcabesa »

hi, can someone explain me how to install tom's live viewer in win 8.1?
Modern Times
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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I think it was the same as in every other version of Windows I've installed it it.
elcabesa
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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yes, but after i installed it it refuse to start due to his old code, it seems it need to be launched in a wow64 mode, andi I still haven't found the way.

anyone has tried?
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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elcabesa wrote:yes, but after i installed it it refuse to start due to his old code, it seems it need to be launched in a wow64 mode, andi I still haven't found the way.

anyone has tried?
I use it under Win 8.1 for 3 months and I don't remember I had configure anything.
I'll look closer tomorow (I don't have access to my comp now).
Modern Times
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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It just works, same as it has always done in every other version of Windows. I didn't have to do anything special.
elcabesa
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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have you got a 32 or 64 bit win8.1?
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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64-bit.
elcabesa
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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i just retry the installation nd not it worker
happy new year, I hate windows 8
Modern Times
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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elcabesa wrote:i just retry the installation nd not it worker
happy new year, I hate windows 8
Very strange, I can't imagine what the problem might be. I'm very happy with Windows 8, but a lot aren't.
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Re: tom's chess live viewer in win 8.1

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elcabesa wrote:yes, but after i installed it it refuse to start due to his old code, it seems it need to be launched in a wow64 mode, andi I still haven't found the way.

anyone has tried?
I think you need to download old Visual Basic runtime: msvbm60.dll, mscomctl.ocx and mswinsck.ocx and simply place it in the same folder with TLCV.
Alternatively you can try my viewer that should work fine, but you have to compile it from sources as I haven't done a compile since long :)
https://github.com/kmar/livius
EDIT: and I don't work on it anymore ;)