SilverMachine

SilverMachine

plays the SSI Gold Box games from your own copy.

Fan project; not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast, SSI or their successors. Requires your own copy of the games.

Built with AI: most of this code was written by AI coding agents directed by DrEvil; see the private development notes for method.

Alpha 0.1.3 — Windows x64. Compatible with Secret of the Silver Blades (PC/DOS): GOG and Collector's CD.

Download SilverMachine-0.1.3-windows-x64.zip, extract the complete folder, and double-click SilverMachine.exe. Python is included; no installation or commands are needed. The SilverMachine title list opens in your browser. Choose Play.

Use Browse to navigate folders inside the page, or type the folder containing your copy's ITEMS and data files. You can also drag your game folder onto SilverMachine.exe before starting. Dragging a text path into the field works too; browsers do not expose Explorer folder paths to a web page. The engine checks the same supported editions and rejects other data. Your original files stay read only.

Use Game folder to change your copy; quit and reopen to apply a change to an active game. Supported: the GOG release (recommended, buy it) or the original Collector's CD. We recommend the GOG releases as the supported way to own the games: Forgotten Realms: The Archives Collection One and Two, and Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series.

Without an existing save A or autosave, the party menu opens. Create and save each character, use Add to put them in the party, then choose Begin. Created characters and saved games go into the save location; your game-data folder is read only.

Click the game for keyboard control; use arrow keys to move, F2 for the map and F10 → Quit to close the game. Closing only the browser tab leaves the game running. The launcher chooses a free local port each time.

The Windows app keeps saves in %LOCALAPPDATA%/SilverMachine/ssb/saves and settings in %LOCALAPPDATA%/SilverMachine/ssb/config. Replace the extracted app folder to update; your progress stays in the player data folder. Keep that data folder when reinstalling. Other titles can be added to the same SilverMachine app in future releases.

The Plus tile opens Journal, maps, help and display options. When the game cites a journal entry, its on-screen link opens Journal at that entry. Your GOG Adventurers Journal.pdf is read in place using the browser's PDF viewer; CD owners are directed to their printed journal. Journal briefings, conversation history and your notes are kept beside your saves.

Report problems using the alpha bug-report template, including the version and build shown on screen.

Developers using the source tree can still run python -m sm.ui --web with Python 3.12 or newer. Source mode retains its existing save and config locations; SM_SECRET overrides the saved game folder. Source releases include tests: set it to your verified copy and run python -m sm test. Checks requiring excluded developer routes or installed save fixtures print SKIP; the pristine new-party check runs without those fixtures. python -m sm.release validates the source manifest and creates local/silvermachine-alpha-0.1.3.zip. The Windows build recipe is herdr/tools/release/package.py in the development workspace.

0.1.3: bundled Python and one-click Windows launcher, SilverMachine title list, Browse without Tk, and saves/settings preserved outside the app folder.

Code licensed under MIT (see LICENSE); this covers our code only, never game data.

Reference: the Brazen Crows / talonius source reconstructions (https://github.com/talonius) were read as a reference only; no code from them is used.