SquirtTheCat

At this point, all I can suggest is to sort out your Windows Installer problem or wait for jafa to respond, but he has not posted here in a long time. Short of that, a VM with Windows 9X installed in it may be your only other option. Thank you so much for all the help -- I truly appreciate it. Perh...

It is in the MSI. Try extracting with 7zip and placing it in the game's folder. There is no xobglu16.dll in the MSI, only xobglu.dll (got xobglu16.dll from another site but didn't do anything). I don't understand why the game launch file is trying to copy a .dll to my windows directory. Shouldn't t...

Collector wrote:I meant xobglu16.dll

I couldn't find that file at all. So tried downloading it, putting it to the Win folder, no effect. Also tried making it read-only, as some forums suggested, no effect. Of course, all this done as administrator.

Collector wrote:Is the file in your Windows directory?

The launch file is in the game directory: c: \amber_jb \new \amber_jb.exe

It does not matter what you name it, so long as it has the .reg extension. You merge it by simply double clicking the file. Got the .reg working (the problem was I copy pasted it first to word, and saving it as a .reg from word did not somehow allow execution). The next present opens as follows: &q...

The main registry entry that the msi makes is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hue Forest Entertainment] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hue Forest Entertainment\Amber] "InstallDir"="C:\\amber_jb\\" You can copy this into Notepad, edit the path to ...

If you still have problems, you could try installing the game with the original installer and unpack MSI and overwrite the files in the installed directory with the extracted files. Without examining everything that the MSI does, I don't know if this will work, but it may be worth a shot. Phew. Fin...

Collector wrote:Did you try to re-download the MSI after uninstalling F-Prot?

Still no, but I eventually managed to freeze the installer before blacking out to read the error message: Program too big to fit into memory. Naturally searched it but wasn't able to find any related hints..

Anti virus programs can sometimes interfere with installers. Also, have you tried to run the installer with admin privileges? Yes, I uninstalled the AV (f-prot) entirely; that computer is not connected to internet anyway. No success. Also gave it admin via file properties, no luck. Is there perhaps...

Collector wrote:Perhaps your AV?

Thanks, Collector, but could be more specific? Does Amber (installer) have some preferences that I should know about?