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Bits and pieces were scattered all about both on this forum and elsewhere so I figured I'd just post it all together here. If you are having any trouble getting Lego Island to work on Windows Vista and Windows 7, just follow this step by step until it works. STEP 1: Prior to installation, open the CD's directory and make sure SETUP.exe and INSTALL.exe are set to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or earlier (as early as Windows 95) compatibility mode by going into properties and clicking on the compatibility tab for both files. STEP 2: Install as normal, then before running the game, go to your CD directory and go to redistdirectx and copy the file d3drm.dll to your installation directory in Program Files x86/LEGO Island or whatever. Alternatively you can download download the file from here: d3drm.dll (via the zip file) and extract the .dll file there. STEP 3: Once in the install directory, make sure msrun.exe, ISLE.exe, and LEGOisle.exe are both set to compatibility mode as you did in step one. Also set these files to run in 256 colors on the compatibility tab. STEP 4: Open up CONFIG.exe and set it to run in 256 colors, hit 'advanced' and select Ramp Emulation under Direct 3D Devices (turning 'Flip Video Memory Pages' back on is fine), then click 'OK' to exit. This should fix a common graphics problem for computers that aren't compatible with Direct 3D HAL. STEP 5: Go back to your CD directory, go into [cd directory]/Lego/Scripts and copy all the contents of this folder into your install directory in Program Files x86/LEGO Island/LEGO/Scripts. This will allow you to run the game without using the CD, resolving any issues the CD might have. STEP 6: Test run the game and once you reach the information center, hit escape or click on the door and see if it bugs out and crashes. If it doesn't crash, you should be good. If it does, then you have a number of options. Apparently messing around with what compatibility mode you run in sometimes fixes the problem, but the only way I could fix it is by running it through Steam: http://store.steampo....com/about/ by adding it as a non-steam game shortcut in your Steam Library and running it from there. STEP 7: If that doesn't solve the crashing on attempting to exit, then a work-around is to let it crash, but save your game before hand by going into the bluebook and resigning in or making a new profile each time before exiting/crashing.

Coming back to this, I found a fourth issue on Bricklink. Considering there are four installments to the web comic, it seems likely they're one and the same. And considering the web editions are lost, that's good! Those are definitely something to get a hold of and scan at some point. Also, this isn't new but I just noticed it: vroniefan2000, who uploaded the second Time Cruisers audio drama, also uploaded the third one. So nothing missing there, now!

This topic has been dead for almost a year - how about I revive it? My sigfig. Since there isn't a generic helmet piece aside from the diver, I wore the fisherman's cap. Unfortunately, I can't give myself a hook hand or epaulets either. I also made a classic pirate skin. Wouldn't you love to see what I had to re-texture? Anyway, I found a new use for my decal remakes!

hey dude if I lose my job can I borrow yours

The idea of Seatron eventually became Aquazone, which was very much its own thing, separate from Space (though it was intended to be on an alien planet, that idea often wasn't presented clearly, sometimes even ignored - like, there's magazine comics with Aquazone and Town/Divers crossovers). In the mid/late 90s LEGO started drifting away from the model of having ongoing themes with different factions anyway (with themes like Adventurers and Rock Raiders). By 2001 that model was gone entirely, and ever since then all themes have had more individual personality (Alien Conquest was just an alien invasion of a city). Power Miners was very much its own thing, but is often compared directly to Rock Raiders, which goes to show just how ultimately inconsequential it is that Rock Raiders technically takes place on another planet. Rock Raiders was just one of the first standalone themes like that, and now they're the norm.

It's definitely a standalone theme. The only thing it's part of is the Systems super-theme, which just means it was from the late 90's/early 00's and wasn't part of Technic or Duplo. Its closest relative is Power Miners, which didn't come out for ten more years. The space stuff was only in the books and video games - the sets themselves gave no indication they were on an alien planet, just that they were deep underground.