I would like to complete this game, myself. I wish GOG would let us know that they are interested in finding a solution for us. Hallford stresses that this free remake can't be turned into a full for-profit project due to IP ownership and contractual. I point this out, despite it probably being obvious to most people, because the image contains bonus. I hope this clears up some of the confusion as to what the exact problem is. Original Betrayal at Krondor game designer Neal Hallford has explained on his official website that he is working on a free remake of the first areas of the game for Amazon's CryEngine-based Lumberyard engine. This isn't something ingame, but if you mount the bak.gog file in Daemon-Tools or Alcohol 120, it gets revealed as the image of the original Betrayal at Krondor CD version (minus the music tracks). Supposedly it addresses several issues, including this one, but I will have to do some more research. I read somewhere that there is a patch to bring Betrayal in Antara up to Version 1.1.0 (just looked, and the current GOG version is 1.1.0). Whether there is any incentive for either of them to work on a solution, I do not know. This is a technical issue that, it would seem, would require some work on the part of both GOG and the DosBox developers. Since it does not ask you to swap discs, I'm assuming both are mounted, and the game knows that both are there. Apparently there is no notification (none of the posts I've read, nor my own experience with the game, have shown that anyone was notified that a disc change was required) and, I do not know if it's possible to tell DosBox to unmount one directory and mount the other one, at appropriate times, as the game was originally set up to do.Īs it is, it would appear that the game looks for files on D: first, and only looks on E: (assuming this is how it's set up) if it does not find files by that name on D. I do not know if the game can recognize that both CDs are mounted at the same time, and switch between them as needed (some games were programmed by people who assumed that you had one CD drive, drive D:, and could only "see" a CD if it was in that drive). I know that the game runs in DosBox, and that DosBox is capable of mounting both directories as drive D: and E:, however, there are two things I do not know: These two CDs include files with the same name, but containing different resources. I believe that part of the problem stems from the fact that the game came on two CDs (which are now two directories in the game's installation directory).
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