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I promise faithfully.

No, I don't have a Mac, I have a PC. What I can cover (hopefully) is the PC part of the problem.

I'm curious too. If you trust me not to steal your graphs I'll try to make it work.

You are right that, while you are still working with the editor, there's a subfolder within you 'Data folder' that contains your scen. And you save your images into that subfolder.

In order to play your game this subfolder has to be copied (or drawn) into the 'BoA scenario folder'.

What folder? Thralni, let's get this right. There is the Blades of Avernum directory that contains three folders: 1)BoA Editor, 2)BoA scenarios, 3)Data.

The second (BoA scenarios) contains subfolders with all scenarios that either came with the game or you downloaded or created yourself. It is this second folder that your pics should go into: you should place them into the subfolder you created for your game.

Thralni, are you trying to play a Mac scenario on a PC? I don't know, but you may have to adapt more than just graphics to make that work.

If you have a PC version and just trouble with your graphics, mail me the whole thing. I've done custom graphs for PC before.

mailto:fritze@leukefeld.com

This is what I was looking for:

see: Unwanted lines in custom graphics

There was an occasional problem with Mac graphs. If I remember this right, they had to be placed in their rectangle's upper left corner to look well in the game. Would Kel or Thuryl know?

Silver is around and posting occasionally. So you could ask him, if he's moving or upgrading his site.

I haven't seen SkeleTony in a while. He offered some files for download that solved Win XP's compatibility problems. Princess Ruth got them from him, so maybe you PM her and ask her to mail them to you?

See here:

Topic: 16 but MS-DOS error

 

Try contacting SkeleTony or one of those that got the files from him.

You started something, SkeleTony..

Quite a few members have that problem. It wouldn't be so bad, if spidweb offered a download of this precious file on their own website.

Ask TM. Yes I know he's on a Mac, but he's done so many scenarios, there should be little that he doesn't know about this kind of thing.

Thought it might work. Cheers!

SkeleTony talks about it in the link I gave you above. He'll probably mail it to you, if you PM him.

Try that selfextracting file SkeleTony is offering. If that also doesn't work, consider changing to Win 2000. It's still the best OS Microsoft ever created and keeps you out of all this trouble.

You touch that old question: What is more important in life, the goals you set for yourself or how you move towards them. Or both?

Personally I don't believe that there can ever be an easy answer. Not only because of individual preferences, also because the answer is heavily dependant on and changes with circumstances.

If a scenario's author chooses a linear style, then having few options is part of the story he's going to give a life of its own, and it doesn't make sense to me to ask him to please tell a different tale.

Of course the same is true vice versa. Or for a mix of both.

There's this info in Tech Support, Ruthie. It might solve your problem.

Topic: 16 but MS-DOS error

Two links that might help you:

 

Compatibility Problems

16-bit windows based programs on XP

Congrats! And my PC's last crash was...mmh, let me see...2001.

Congrats! And my PC's last crash was...mmh, let me see...2001.

Me too. And it's not that difficult to have custom sounds with Windows. You have to put a few empty folders into the .exe directory, but once that's done, they can be used eternally.

I share your feeling. I loved to explore all the niches and corners looking for a goodie or two.

Bad things have happened. Try to repair your WinXP, if your computer has such an option. If not, you'll have to reinstall XP.

The error message you get is a typical one and tells that your Editor.exe is not where it should be.

 

Go to your Blades of Avernum folder and open it. You'll find a subfolder there called 'Data'. This subfolder is what Isaac is refering to. Move the Editor.exe into the Data subfolder.

 

The instructions for Windows can be misinterpreted. When they tell you not to place the .exe into a subfolder, they refer to the subfolders containing graphics that you find within the Data folder.

I don't remember IE4 that well, but check the 'internet options' of your browser, particularly the security and advanced sections.