The Settlers HD save ERROR

[Leifern]

Hi,

Today i booted up my Amiga, thinking i would do some writing. However, having sold all my fancy hardware my Amiga would no longer run my wordprosessor and i ended up playing a game of The Settlers.

I have now come to the point when i need to save my game, but it refuses. It is installed on the HD and it said "Save game: On harddrive" on the infoscreen (that shows on boot).
It gives me an error message and ask me to make sure my drive is not write-protected.

Any ideas? Do i need to create some fancy folder to save to or something?
Please help.

[SkidMajor]

Im not here to help you, just to say i have the same problem. I dont think there is an eay way round it. Can anyone help us? Or am i to blind and lazy to see it's actually simple but i was not in the mood to fix the issue at the time?:confused: lol!

[Franko]

Came across that problem many years ago, solved it by using a Hex Editor to change the main game code program (TheSettlers from disk 3) by editing the hard coded ascii in the file to point to SET: which can be any HD or directory you set up with an Assign for where to save the game...

Kinda hard to explain it all here but basically after changing this and creating a little script the game runs fine from HD and you can set up your Saved Game Directory to be on the HD or partition of your choice...

If I recall correctly the original game looks on your SYS: partition as the location for the "Saved Games" and if it doesn't find it there it reports an error...

[Darrin]

So just creating a directory called "SYS:Saved Games" should fix it?

[Franko]

So just creating a directory called "SYS:Saved Games" should fix it?

Nah... not unless you hack the original...

On a floppy it looks for files called...

DF0:SettlerSave-

Where the "-" is replaced by a number from 0 to 9 by the program...

On HD it looks first in the drawer from which you run The Settlers then in SYS: for the file...

SettlerSave-

Again where "-" is a number from 0 to 9...

So I changed the main code to look for...

SET:StlSave-

and this allows me to create a drawer anywhere called "Saved Games/The Settlers/" (or anything you like really) as you then only have to run the game from a small script the assigns SET: to point to the drawer where you want to store your saved games, works perfectly...