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So I will end up needing to have ways to describe items regardless of the Gold Box game. That is one of the things I am currently working on, making a Gold Box Item class that supports items from different games.

I plan to do the same with items as well. So what I have made is a Gold Box character class to hold character information regardless of which Gold Box games the character comes from. or at least files inspired by DTOs which stands for data transfer objects, used when working with APIs maybe an API an app might use to get files from a database, or how an app that uses an API.

One of the things I have done to prepare this to be possible to use with several Gold Box games on several systems is I designed some "DTO" files. My plans now is to add support for more games and polish the UI of the app.

The Gold Box Companion does already have some pretty good character and item editor features though, so if I add such features it would mainly be to play around with the idea and to learn more about the Gold Box games.įeel free to give some feedback or ideas for features to add. I have called it Gold Box Editor for now, as I will probably make it into a save file editor as well, and I might add other features to it. I should probably also setup a website for it. Its still very early and it needs some cleaning up. I first thought I had to leave out things like what items where equipped, what spells had been learned, what spells had been memorized and such, but it turns out it could all be directly converted not even needing a mapping table for items, spells or effects. This for now seems like a good solution if you want to play the graphically nice early Gold Box games on the Amiga and then move to the DOS version later.įirst I have been focusing on The Dark Queen of Krynn, and it seems to pretty much fully convert a Amiga character save file to a DOS character save file. make your characters from a Death Knights of Krynn C64 game be possible to use on the DOS or Amiga version. I have begun working on a tool for converting character files to make it possible to f.ex.