Civilization AGA installed to HDD on OS3.9 - green screen

[MarkWatson]

I've been reading a bit more about this on newsgroups. It sounds like the LBM files are compressed using powerpacker and can theoretically be extracted with XFD. Mine are the same size as on the disks (and can't be viewed with multiview) so I guess they must be packed. However xfdDecrunch says "Not crunched" when I run it against them.

So how can I decrunch these files?! I looked at them in a hex editor and they start with "5150 3032" or "PQ20". What packer uses that?

Thanks,

Mark

[MarkWatson]

OK, got it working:-) All the powerpacker decompresses claimed blind that those files were not compressed. So I went back to   a trick suggested by some people on newsgroups.

The trick was to run Civ from disks. Then exit to DOS. From the cli copy the contents of all the disks to HDD. This decompresses them on the copy since Civ has installed a system patch to decompress files on reading. Though I still had to use xfddecrunch to decrunch the CivilizationAGA binary itself, oddly.

Now the question is - why does the decrunch of the other files work for everyone else? What is it about my box? I tried uae as well with the same results...

Mark

[MarkWatson]

Sorry, 4th reply to my own post:-) Just after I used the copy from disks after running civ trick I got an e-mail from the whdload patch author. They send me a tool decrunchciv. This does all the decrunching, much simpler:-)

Mark