[Bug 31618] Waterboy 1.0 (VB5 game) fails on startup, claiming "Run-time error '13': Type mismatch" (VarParseNumFromStr with invalid number string)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31618

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello Bruno,

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The game instantly fails in win XP with error 13, type mismatch. Time to
platform dependent code?
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Thanks for testing.

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It does not work with xp "compatibility mode" to win95 either.
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For "compatibility mode" to be effective the application/game must be listed in
the application shim database (= problem officially recognized by Microsoft) so
one or multiple shims "hacks" can be applied at runtime.

This game probably never gained any significant popularity hence the breakage
on modern Windows OS was never brought to Microsoft's attention.

This code probably only works by pure luck on older systems, relying on
broken/undocumented API behaviour (the executable is dated 2000).

I could probably dig deeper here and patch the application itself (it's native
code, no VB PCode), but personally I think that would be a waste of time.

IMHO 'invalid' or 'wontfix'.

Regards

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