Hi,

I played the Avernum series and enjoyed the play-style and found Balrum on Steam.
Being a Gog customer I bought the game here and found that the version is 1.12 whereas Steam proposes a 1.21 version with achievements and other want to have features.

When are you expecting to release an up to date version of this game ?

Thanks for your reply.

Hour later?

Thank you for the replies and yes the patch was released 2 minutes after my post.

Don't get me wrong I was not meaning to rush anybody.

@GOG staff: keep up the good work :-)

Unfortunately, this version (1.21) no longer works on Windows XP (giving a "not a valid Win32 application" message) due to the program headers for balrum.exe having been set to require Vista or later. This is a similar problem to the latest update to Nexus the Jupiter Incident, and it can be fixed by doing the following:

* Download and install a hex editor (I suggest using the free HxD);
* Make a backup copy of balrum.exe (HxD will make a backup copy too, but better to play safe);
* Open balrum.exe using HxD and change bytes 140 and 148 (hex) from 06 to 05 (see the outlined values in Balrum_fix.gif) - save this altered file;
* Try running Balrum.exe - it should now work.

As with Nexus, the most likely cause is Balcony Team's use of Visual Studio 2015 which requires patching for WinXP support.