Posted September 17, 2015
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I just finished playing Pool of Radiance on my Mac thanks to GoG! It was a blast from the past as it brought back fond old memories of first playing it when it first came out and saying up all night with my friends as we took turns at the keyboard.
Now I want to play Curse of the Azure Bonds and want to transfer some of my characters over from PoR.
I did a lot of Googling and everything I found was for the Windows version. I'm not a DosBox or Boxer expert by any means so I had a hard time figuring it out. But, finally with enough bits of information via Google, I figured it out and thought I'd share my findings with everyone.
So, here are the steps I took in order to transfer my Pool of Radiance characters to Curse of the Azure Bonds on Mac:
1. First, close Curse of the Azure Bonds if you have it running.
2. In PoR, go to the training hall and remove all the characters from your party that you want to transfer.
3. Exit PoR - you don't have to save the game
4. In Finder, go to your Library folder under your home folder. This may be tricky as by default, the Library folder is hidden. So, in Finder, go to your Home folder and then select the Go menu (in Finder) and select "Go to Folder...". A small window will open and in this window enter "Library" (without the quotes).
5. In Finder, now go into the "Application Support" folder, then the "Boxer" folder, then the "Gamebox States" folder, and then the "com.gog.pool-of-radiance" folder.
6. You should now see an item named "Current.boxerstate" - right-click on this item and select "Show Package Contents" from the popup menu.
7. Now, open the "C.harddisk" folder and then the "POOLRAD" folder.
8. Ok, this is it. In the POOLRAD folder you should be able to find your character files. After testing, I've determined the only files you need are the ones with your character name ending in ".CHA". So, for instance, if your character's name was "MERLIN", you would need the file named "MERLIN.CHA".
9. So, now open another Finder window and do the same as above to navigate to the following folder:
~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.curse-of-the-azure-bonds/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk/SAVE
edit: sorry for the spacing but I cannot figure out how to stop that on these forums.
10. Simply copy the .CHA files for the characters you want to transfer to this "SAVE" folder for Curse.
11. That should be it, now fire up Curse and select the "Add Character to Party" option, select that it is from "POOL" and you should see your characters available for importing.
Now I want to play Curse of the Azure Bonds and want to transfer some of my characters over from PoR.
I did a lot of Googling and everything I found was for the Windows version. I'm not a DosBox or Boxer expert by any means so I had a hard time figuring it out. But, finally with enough bits of information via Google, I figured it out and thought I'd share my findings with everyone.
So, here are the steps I took in order to transfer my Pool of Radiance characters to Curse of the Azure Bonds on Mac:
1. First, close Curse of the Azure Bonds if you have it running.
2. In PoR, go to the training hall and remove all the characters from your party that you want to transfer.
3. Exit PoR - you don't have to save the game
4. In Finder, go to your Library folder under your home folder. This may be tricky as by default, the Library folder is hidden. So, in Finder, go to your Home folder and then select the Go menu (in Finder) and select "Go to Folder...". A small window will open and in this window enter "Library" (without the quotes).
5. In Finder, now go into the "Application Support" folder, then the "Boxer" folder, then the "Gamebox States" folder, and then the "com.gog.pool-of-radiance" folder.
6. You should now see an item named "Current.boxerstate" - right-click on this item and select "Show Package Contents" from the popup menu.
7. Now, open the "C.harddisk" folder and then the "POOLRAD" folder.
8. Ok, this is it. In the POOLRAD folder you should be able to find your character files. After testing, I've determined the only files you need are the ones with your character name ending in ".CHA". So, for instance, if your character's name was "MERLIN", you would need the file named "MERLIN.CHA".
9. So, now open another Finder window and do the same as above to navigate to the following folder:
~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.curse-of-the-azure-bonds/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk/SAVE
edit: sorry for the spacing but I cannot figure out how to stop that on these forums.
10. Simply copy the .CHA files for the characters you want to transfer to this "SAVE" folder for Curse.
11. That should be it, now fire up Curse and select the "Add Character to Party" option, select that it is from "POOL" and you should see your characters available for importing.
Post edited September 17, 2015 by markreddick