Afternoon chaps,

I remember there was a download that enabled you to link your careers in EAW... Is that still around?
Or is there an updated version?

Ta much

It's at Tally Ho in the Lost and Found:

Career Linker

I seem to recall a lot of these utilities only work with the early 1.2X execs.

I know I tried the one that allows you to switch planes mid-career but it crashed when using 1.6.

Bugger... Wont work on my computer

If the problem is that you have a 64 bit computer that doesn't like DOM's DOS programmes, you can actually run them under DOSBox. I am doing that to use DOM's HillsGenerator at the moment.

I just put the necessary DOSBox files in the folder with DOM's programme and edit the final lines of dosbox.conf to automatically run the DOS programme.

Tried this out with Career Linker 1.1 and the programme runs, but I see from Ray's post above that it may have difficulties with recent versions of the EAW exe.

Moggy, can you elaborate on that? Which files need to be in the folder? I'm trying to run the Converter 1.8 and have to boot up an ancient computer to do it, then move the files back and forth.

For example in the HillGenerator folder I have dosbox.exe, dosbox.conf, SDL_net.dll, SDL.dll.

I edit dosbox.conf to put these lines at the end to mount (as a drive) the Main EAW folder (which contains my EAW utilities folder where DOM's Hill Genrator lives), move to that mounted drive, and then to start the Hill Generator programme:



Note that long folder names have to have their DOS aliases so "EAW-Utilities" is "EAW-Ut~1"

I have also edited dosbox.conf so that the programme starts in a window.

Run dosbox.exe and this is what you get:

What if you install DOSBox then place your DOS EAW Tools in the EAW folder, then just drag the tool exe to the desktop dosbox shortcut.

It should run with the EAW Game folder as Z: drive.

Then you don't need to change the configuration file each time for different tools.

Hmmm. Not sure that will work for the converter. It operates by dragging a file onto a batch file, which then calls the converter. DOSBox tells me both the batch file and the exe are illegal commands. Using Mark's suggestion does mount the drive, so that's cool. But then it's not working.

I hope I'm wrong but I think it goes deeper than a DOS box problem.

Along the way there have been changes made to a lot of these files so even if you edit them successfully the edited files won't work with later execs.

DOM's Hill Generator works on the original .tm file, which is what I am working on in the MP map editor. When it is done, it then easily convertible to eaw32.tm

The converter works on 3dz files, which are common to all versions.

I have got the converter to run under DOSBox by installing DPMI support i.e CWSDPMI.EXE (google to download) is in the folder and in dosbox.conf the final lines now look like this:



The -s switch on CWSDPMI.exe sets up the memory swapfile. It all unloads when you exit DOSBox.

It runs fullscreen (but alt-Enter reduces it to a window) and you can enter the names of the files to be converted:

Well, that's something good.

I think some of the other .dat files for campaigns, careers, squadrons and such are a different size. Which if them, I'm not sure, but I know the flight models are different and Jel developed a method of mixing early and late versions.

Maybe he'd have to do the same with other .dat files too.

You can also make batch files and drop them on the desktop shortcut!