Winampaq

Trying to get winampaq to work on my WINCE 5.0 GPS.

At first i got an error "cannot find winampaq (or one of its components...)

Then i downloaded mfcce300.dll into winampaq directory and i get two error windows "LoadDll Fail!" when trying to open winampaq but the program opens up, but when i try to
move the window, or maximize or do anything the program closes down with "Illegal operation"
anyone know what might be wrong?

i was looking in the windows directory and i see mfcce400.dll and got confused, do i need both mfcce300.dll and mfcce400.dll?

Or maybe i have downloaded an incompatible version of winampaq? (The installation went fine)

Edited by P80n 2023-05-25 4:50 PM

You may have to register the Dlls required. Try this program first.

It’ll tell you what exact dll is required.

https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/1398/Hou_Ming/Executability_Check/vers...

Then try copying that dll into /Windows and using this program to register it

https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/1517/CEGadgets/RegSvr2/version_1.0.191...

WinamPAQ only requires mfcce300, not mfcce400. But there are two versions of WinamPAQ, one for H/PC 2000 and one for Pocket PCs. And there are separate versions of mfcce300.dll for each of those two platforms. The "illegal operation" error probably means you're using the wrong version. No registration of the DLLs is required.

Hi, good to know that i don't have to register the dll file.

I use WinamPAQ PPC2000_ARM, have also tried PPC2002 and 2003, no luck with my version of mfcce300.dll (6.0.99.0)

The other version of mfcce300.dll seems hard to find.

The processor is ARM920T (it's an old GPS device)

What is the file size (in bytes) of the version of mfcce300.dll you're using? The build number is the one for the Pocket PC version, but we should verify that.

The "loadDLL fail" error has been reported here before. Doesn't look like a real solution has been found:

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17586&po...

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1983&pos...

The issue seems to be with the file that controls MP3 playback (in_mp3ogg.dll). One user found a solution by modifying that file and using an alternative version of coredll.dll, but the modified files can no longer be downloaded:

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1983&pos...

The WinamPAQ site is closed, but can still be found on the Wayback Machine. The download links here still work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040503225205/http://www.winampaq.com/n...

Maybe the H/PC 2000 version will work. The H/PC 2000 version of mfcce300.dll can be found in this download:

https://www.hpcfactor.com/downloads/754/HPCFactor_Global_Microsoft_M...

thanks for taking your time to help me,

My mfcce300.dll is 413696 bytes

Unfortunately i don't have download rights for the H/PC 2000 version of mfcce300.dll yet, will look into the in_mp3ogg.dll a bit more.

Try the site mentioned in this thread to locate that dll.
I haven’t checked but it should be there somewhere in archive.org

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16768&st...

That's the Pocket PC version, so it should be compatible with the version of WinamPAQ that you're using. More than likely the issue is with in_mp3ogg.dll.

Yeah it must be in_mp3ogg.dll, the hpc version of mfcce300.dll gave error "not valid ce application".

@CE Geek Do you know where that file would have been? Was it on the Winamppaq site or a different one?