Runtime Error 50003

Doc wrote:

> I dont know about the Mac, but do you have a C:\Temp directory on you
> machine?
>

My Mac is a seperate machine, and Planets on it would be nice. I also
have a Wintel machine running XP. Although in September I'm getting a
new shinney Intel Mac, which runs Windows on it, so I will be able to
run Planets on the Mac...

But to answer you question about the Temp folder on the C: drive, Yes I
do.
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I have had this problem, it stems from a computer that has not been
maintained.
Ie defrag your computer and due a disk check also run a virus and spy
ware scan.

Good thing I still check this forum out now and again.

I still am wondering if tim will ever get around to fixing all the
basic bugs in this game before he bothers to put a new level of
complexity in it.

Jason
Lokkee
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Lokkee wrote:

> I have had this problem, it stems from a computer that has not been
> maintained.
> Ie defrag your computer and due a disk check also run a virus and spy
> ware scan.

Cheers Lokkee, I'll give it a while in the am.

>
> Good thing I still check this forum out now and again.

I'll refrain from judgement until I know whether the fix works!

> I still am wondering if tim will ever get around to fixing all the
> basic bugs in this game before he bothers to put a new level of
> complexity in it.

There's no fun in maintainnance. We'd all rather spend time doing new
and exciting things...
Talking of which should I defrag my Hard Disk or try and get the Beta
of Vista working to see how much they knicked form Mac OS X?

--
Mr Maff
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KlingonKommand wrote:

> maffster writes
>
> >* Actually a Mac user - but with lots of PC experiance. I'd rather
> >play planets on a Mac!
>
> Check this out:
>
> www-furfur-demon-co
> ignore.this.line
> .uk/geop/p4-on-a-mac.htm
>
> apologies for mangling the URL but I'm currently on 600 spam a day...
> but I'm trying to cut down... damn crawlers!

No Worries.
And thanks for that.
Virtual PC was alwas too slow for practical use on the old IBM chips.
The new intel chip is a wonder in the mac.
There is an application called 'Parallels' that lets you run multiple
Operaring Systems at the same time whether it be variations of Linux or
Windows.
Once I get my Intel Mac - I'll be ditching my PC (check out ebay in
September) and will use my mac for accessing the very few programmes I
actually run under Windows.
Hopefully VGA Planets will be one of them!
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maffster writes

>* Actually a Mac user - but with lots of PC experiance. I'd rather
>play planets on a Mac!

Check this out:

www-furfur-demon-co
ignore.this.line
..uk/geop/p4-on-a-mac.htm

apologies for mangling the URL but I'm currently on 600 spam a day...
but I'm trying to cut down... damn crawlers!
--
Paul Honigmann
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>
> Well after uninstalling Planets 4, deleting the directory, Defraggin
> the Hard Drive (6hrs), downloading the shareware version of planets
> from www.planets4.com (rather than www.vgaplanets.com) installing the
> updates, turning off the virus checker (after checking for virii and
> spyware) and consuming several mugs of Tea (milk with one sugar), I
> feel I'm ready to play Planets 4.
>
> Except that I still get Runtime Error 50003!
>
> Help!

Did you run a registry checker, this could be a problem too.
I use nortons and have had no problems since.

Lokkee
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>
> Did you run a registry checker, this could be a problem too.
> I use nortons and have had no problems since.
>
> Lokkee

Also go to dos and run a diskcheck usually called dskchk.exe

Lokkee
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Lokkee wrote:
> >
> > Did you run a registry checker, this could be a problem too.
> > I use nortons and have had no problems since.
> >
> > Lokkee
>
> Also go to dos and run a diskcheck usually called dskchk.exe
>

It all seems like a lot of work!
I've not had to go to all this sort of trouble for any program on my
Mac...
That said I've not had to go to this much trouble for any program on my
WinPC.
Shouldn't programs just work if written for an operating system?

I've spent 2 days on this now... It's a good job I'm on holiday at the
moment...
but the wife is beginning to ask me to start work on that list of jobs
she wants me to do!
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> apologies for mangling the URL but I'm currently on 600 spam a day...
> but I'm trying to cut down... damn crawlers!

Wow although my mailadress was in cleartext in the web for thtree years I
didn´t manage to get 600 spam mails a day.
As long as I can reach you side via direct link from cranyon there´s no need
to mange URL's. There might be lot of other direct clear type links, so it
might be pretty usless to encrypt you link in the news.

Sebastian
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maffster wrote:
> Lokkee wrote:
>>> Did you run a registry checker, this could be a problem too.
>>> I use nortons and have had no problems since.
>>>
>>> Lokkee
>> Also go to dos and run a diskcheck usually called dskchk.exe
>>
>
> It all seems like a lot of work!
> I've not had to go to all this sort of trouble for any program on my
> Mac...
> That said I've not had to go to this much trouble for any program on my
> WinPC.
> Shouldn't programs just work if written for an operating system?
>
> I've spent 2 days on this now... It's a good job I'm on holiday at the
> moment...
> but the wife is beginning to ask me to start work on that list of jobs
> she wants me to do!
>
well then you better slow down, you don't want to get to that list too
soon. it is a beta, and if you ever played stars!, there were patches
coming out 5 years after it was released...
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I've finally done it, with the help of Tim W.
He sent me a list of the dll and ocx files used by Planets 4 (see
below).

Working my way through I found I had an old version of MCI32.OCX. I
replaced this with a new version I downloaded from the web.

I unregistered the old OCX file with regsvr32 -u (thanks to Doc for
introducing regsvr32 to me), put the newer file in the system32 folder
and registered it.

Lo and behold Planets 4 works.

Thankyou to everybody who suggested solutions.

I've not finished my shelves yet.

I am once again drinking Whisky and Dry (Bushmills 10 yr old single
Malt).

Here's that list of dll's and ocx's just incase your interested (or
looking this up in the future because you have a similar fault).

Here is a list of possible files that could be causing the error. . .

Source: "msvbvm50.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: normal
Source: "stdole2.tlb"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist;
Flags: regtypelib
Source: "oleaut32.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "olepro32.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "asycfilt.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "comcat.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist;
Flags: allowunsafefiles
Source: "comppl32.dll"; DestDir: "{app}"; CopyMode: normal
Source: "tabctl32.ocx"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist;
Flags: regserver
Source: "threed20.ocx"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist;
Flags: regserver
Source: "mci32.ocx"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist;
Flags: regserver
Source: "msvcrt.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "msvcirt.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "shlwapi.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: "ole32.dll"; DestDir: "{sys}"; CopyMode: onlyifdoesntexist

Peace.
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