Cant get emulators to run

[cparsley]

on all previous versions of windows the programs (Stella/NesterJ/Nostalgia) worked fine, but now on a Windows7 machine it comes up saying it's not a valid program file.

 

Error message

Atari\Stella.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

 

Driving me insane here!

[onthinice]

I use Stella version 3.3 and Nostalgia 3.6. They both work on windows 7. I might need to update Nostalgia because that new Christmas Carol rom ran slow at times. Have you tried reinstalling them or maybe copy them from an older computer and just transfer the files to your windows 7 machine.

[+stephena]

I would suggest looking at the version, and make sure you not trying to run the 64-bit version on a 32-bit machine (the other way around works fine, though: 32-bit on 64-bit machine).

[cparsley]

Im not, they came from my Windows XP 32 machine, burned them to a CD, loaded them to the Windows 7 machine, and now, fail with the error message above.

[icemanxp300]

If you have 64-bit windows 7 try the 64 bit version.

 

On a side note, I'm not familiar with this but does this require an actual install? Because if you just copy and pasted the "folder" contents you are not going to have any registry files and what not.

 

Generally you can't transfer programs the way you described. Just download and install properly and it will probably work. It sounds like you basically dragged and dropped which doesnt work for programs.

[Drixxel]

If you have 64-bit windows 7 try the 64 bit version.

 

On a side note, I'm not familiar with this but does this require an actual install? Because if you just copy and pasted the "folder" contents you are not going to have any registry files and what not.

 

Generally you can't transfer programs the way you described. Just download and install properly and it will probably work. It sounds like you basically dragged and dropped which doesnt work for programs.

 

In the case of NesterJ and the like, the ol' drag and drop should work just fine. There's no installation, it's just an executable file. The latest version of Stella I downloaded just the other day, on the other hand, did have to go through a proper installation.

 

As previous posters have said, this sounds like a 32-bit OS/64-bit program mismatch, either that or the files on that burned disc are fubar'd. Are you getting the same error message that's coming up with Stella for each emulator you're trying to run, the "not a valid Win32 application" blurb? Also, have you copied the emulators over to your Windows 7 machine's HDD, or are you trying to run them off the CD?

 

EDIT: Unless that particular burned disc is your only option for getting files onto your Windows 7 machine, downloading different versions of the emulators in question, matched to the bit-ness of the version of Windows 7 you're running, would be the simplest course of action by far.

Edited August 31, 2012 by Drixxel