Upload them here. You should be fine.

Try right-clicking and Troubleshoot COmpatibility, then select XP SP2 mode.

Just run the Troublshoot Compatibility by right-clicking on the MultiEx Commander icon in Windows 7. Then select XP SP2 after it is done and save its settings for next time. It worked for me on a clean install.

Just run the Troublshoot Compatibility by right-clicking on the MultiEx Commander icon in Windows 7. Then select XP SP2 after it is done and save its settings for next time. It worked for me on a clean install.

Excellent.

Ok, here's a crude converter for you. It will create BMPs.

The rules state you will have to upload an example.

This is great, why not add it to the tools blog yourself, you should have author rights there

Well, each file has a header: uint16 Image width (-8) uint16 Image height uint16 dummy uint16 bytes per row in each layer (each byte is 8 pixels, remember, so to get to the actual width, multiple this with 8) uint16 (number of bytes in each layer in theory / 8 ), so multiply with 8 to get to the tot...

Okay, so the game uses 4 palettes, I noticed. 2 CGA and 2 VGA. The MWI files that have CGA in their name have a slightly tweaked CGA palette (colour 12 is white instead of black). Also, those MWI files that have a CGA in their name have a VGA counterpart, with a gray-scale VGA palette, as opposed to...

The files in this archive are Zlib compressed. The first file starts at 0x7a8.

well, like I said. There are 4 layers of pixel information. Each byte in a layer represents 8 pixels , the left most pixel being the 8th bit (decimal value 128). If a bit is set, then the pixel at that location is set. However, there are 4 layers, so each pixel has 4 bits of colour information (4 la...

So it seems these files have 4 colour bit layers. By chosing the right palette you can show the picture in VGA or CGA mode, when the palette is CGA compatible.

Check out the title screen, I've converted it from the data in TITLE.DZI to what it would look like in VGA mode:

Actually, each bit is simply a pixel (disregard the nibble part above). The highest bit comes first, so bit 7 (dec 128) is pixel 0, bit 6 (dec 64) is pixel 1 etc.

If I expand the first of the screens in the TITLE file like that to a 8-bit bitmap this is what you get:

Okay, never mind, I got it. They are CGA/VGA files. The TITLE file shows a screen resolution of 320 x 200 in the header, and a 'line'of bytes of 41 per row. Each byte depicts 8 pixels, in nibbles. So a hex value of FF means two consecutive rows of 4 pixels, with 0 - 15 combinations (e.g. F = 1111 (b...