Quicktime Lib missing for an old game

Newbie here - have not used OS9 for eons. I run OSX 10.3.9, but I want to run an old game - Panzer General ver.1.2 - under Classic.
Although the installer says all is OK, when run, the program gacks the message that it can't find quicktimeLib. I have confirmed that quicktime 6 (6.03 I think) is installed just fine under Classic. Sure enough, though, a system search shows no 'quicktimelib'.
Any clues?

Hi, Tom -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
It seems you are not alone with that problem, or related ones, re that game -
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=304159
http://www.gamedb.com/ssps/0/3/00013
Guesses as to the cause -
• The game may be old enough, and written so narrowly in its expectations, that it can not adapt to newer versions of QuickTime. Like much of the software since (and including) the release of OS 9, many elements that were stand-alone have been rolled into composite libraries. The code routines that may have once been in a separate extension named QuickTimeLib may now be included in a newer library-type extension, but the program can't find them because it doesn't know how to look for them.
• The game may be one of the many (usually game type) programs which will not run well, or at all, in Classic. These programs are usually ones that require direct access to the machine's hardware. Unfortunately, when OS 9 is run as Classic under OSX, it is being used as a program and not as an OS - OSX retains control of the hardware, and can not release it to a program being run in the Classic environment.

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