The topic of this post is not how to make EB work with ALEX. For information about that please go to

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=94861

and

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=96135


This is about a bug of the alex installer.
The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive.
If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.


To play EB with ALEX anyway you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive.

The easy one first. RomeTW-ALX.exe can be found on the CD. Just copy this file to your RTW installation, into the same directory as RomeTW.exe

The second file is chat_filter.san.
This one is, of course, also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.


I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net.

To get i6comp go to.
http://programmerstools.org/node/123
or google for it.


Unzip the download in some directory, say D:\extract. This should give you, among others, the file i6comp.exe.

From the ALEX CD copy the files data1.cab, data1.hdr and data2.cab into the same directory.

Open a Texteditor and create a file i6comp.bat with the following line:

i6comp e -r data1.cab

Save the file in D:\extract.

Doubleclick i6comp.bat.

This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find chat_filter.san in D:\extract.

Copy chat_filter.san to <your RomeEB directory>\EB\data.

Thats it.
For information on how to set up EB to be compatible with ALEX visit the links above.


And finally:
A big thank you to the EB team or making this fantastic mod.
Also to Maksimus and everybody involved in making it work with ALEX.


cheers

Gerhard