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Trying to run the Archimedes Emulator for their own version of Elite and I downloaded the emulator from here....

http://arcem.sourceforge.net/

and downloaded the Arc-Elite game from here.....

http://www.elitehomepage.org/arc/index.htm

Before, I use that on the emulator, I have to get it to work, and I'm getting nothing. When ever I click on the installer icon, nothing happens.

Is thee easier and better way of getting this game to work without having access to the original game itself?

Commander Mick wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:47 pm

Trying to run the Archimedes Emulator for their own version of Elite and I downloaded the emulator from here....

http://arcem.sourceforge.net/

and downloaded the Arc-Elite game from here.....

http://www.elitehomepage.org/arc/index.htm

Before, I use that on the emulator, I have to get it to work, and I'm getting nothing. When ever I click on the installer icon, nothing happens.

Is thee easier and better way of getting this game to work without having access to the original game itself?

Knowing nothing about this, does that refer to ArcElite & it refer to the emulator? And might it help if you spelled out which operating system your magnificent machine of Machiavellian mysteries is using?

Yes, it is. It's a Elite game that ran on the Archimedes Machine (Or Arc-Elite as it's otherwise known to me.) and this is the emulation....

I use Windows 10.

They also mention Cygwin and the Arc-emulator is supposed to build itself under Cygwin.
https://www.sourceware.org/cygwin/

But it just gets more complex.

Commander Mick wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:12 pm

They also mention Cygwin and the Arc-emulator is supposed to build itself under Cygwin.
https://www.sourceware.org/cygwin/

But it just gets more complex.

This installation thing looks as though it is making your life miserable...

Didn't dabble with Cygwin in more than 2 years (switched to the "real thing" -- Linux), but what I can tell, it's not for regular users.
Unless one's in the at least "partially developer" camp, not much use out of it (not that it's not useful, I still have it available in my windows instances, but I'm also in that camp).
Also, definitely, the Mac crowd has no need for any Cygwin reference (should work natively, usually).