hsballina wrote:
I've been trying but without any success so far. Are you running 32 or 64 bit Win 10?
Running 64 bit Win 10 and now also have it on the older laptop running it with 64 bit Win 7.
I really can't claim much credit - just the hours spent trawling the internet to find this! Probably like most I read that SSA is 16 bit and so the problems running it on a 64 bit OS. Started googling for solutions and found all those ideas like setting up a VM or even how to have two OS installed on the one machine. But also read that the issue with some programs is just that the installer is 16 bit, even though the program is 32 bit; add a new installer and all fixed! Way way beyond my computing skills though.
Turns out this is exactly the thing with SSA, the program is 32-bit and that's clearly stated in the help files now I can access them, the installer must be the problem and must have been left as it was from the initial versions of SSA which were 16 bit. So after hours and hours of searching found this:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/339251-SUB-STATION-ALPHA-4-08-For-64-Bits-Systems Some computing genius (well to me) has created a version of SSA with a 32 bit installer which is available here:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Sub-Station-Alpha Once it was installed I also had to install the dll file mentioned into the SSA directory, and then it all worked fine - easy as that!! So huge kudos to 'devilcoelhodog' who created it back in 2011.
If you want to access the help files the old winhlp32 won't work with Win 10, did find some suggested work-arounds, but Microsoft provided updates for up to Win 8 to be able to access those files, which is why I also put it on the Win 7 machine so I can read through the help files.
I noticed 'devilcoelhodog' said "Please enjoy it and feel free to download it and put it on your own site." Perhaps Julien might consider making some room on the lddb server to store a copy (like the manuals)? It's something that only LD fans are going to have an interest in these days and that would help ensure it isn't lost forever.