Here's instructions on how to make a single cd that will allow you to play all your games from it. The below works for all HPS game series, like the ACW, NAPPY, Panzer, etc. and will work for all BG (Talonsoft) series, although SOME of the BG games do not work for SOME people.
The way I have done it follows. I have 30+ games on one disk and it is only taking up 230 MB. Basically there's room for every Tiller title that will be coming out for years to come.
Create a Working Folder on your hard drive.
Drag and drop all of your game folders into it. (Including the BG series, also)
Make sure each game folder is named EXACTLY the way it is shows on the cd (Caps, abbreviations, spacing, etc.)
Go into each folder and delete all .bmp .doc .hlp .wav files. Then you MAY delete all SUB-FOLDERS.
In the Main game folder, delete all files EXCEPT any EXE game file. (For instance: CPI.EXE, CP_START.EXE, CWCAMP.EXE, CWEDIT.EXE)(Example is from Campaign Shiloh) (For the BG series, leave BGG.EXE, BG_START.EXE, CWEDIT.EXE and the similar files in other BG games)
Then burn your cd. Make sure all the game folders are at the root of the CD, don't grab the working directory with them inside of it, as that won't work. Do not FINALIZE the CD and you can add any new HPS game that comes out.
I keep the working folder intact once I am done, that way when a new game comes out I just have to repeat the process for that one title and I can burn a new cd.
It's great not to have to swap CD's anymore!!
Actually, it does work for Talonsoft titles. You simply ADD the BG series games to your working folder you made for the HPS titles, Copy your game folders into the WORKING Folder say BGG, BGS, BGN, BGBR, and leave the executables (example: BG_start.exe, BGS.exe, etc.) in the folder for each game.
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