gbx cbdesign.exe (679 k)

By John Erwin Hacker (Godzillaking) on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 03:31 pm: Edit

John Berg:

I have trried on 8 ocassions to install the program that you offered up to the public to view your maps with no success. Is there special software that is needed on top of the exe. file you provided to use it?. If there is where can I find it?. Please let me know.

Thanks in advance, "THE GODZILLAKING".

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 03:46 pm: Edit

When you save the progam direct from here it saves as

cbdesign_exe.unk

When you save the program rename it as

cbdesign.exe

that should solve the problem. If that doesn't work (and it did for me) try http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/ the compannies website.

By Bennett Eugene Snyder (Planner) on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 09:42 am: Edit

Having trouble trying to open the map. Comes up as gbx.unk.

By Howard Bampton (Bampton) on Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 04:30 pm: Edit

Windows is too smart for its own good. Rename the file to be a .gbx file.

By john burton steele (Johnbsteele) on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 10:28 pm: Edit

Howard ... Will you please work your magic and post it here so those of us having trouble can see the map?

By Howard Bampton (Bampton) on Sunday, November 09, 2008 - 10:59 pm: Edit

I need to turn in, but I'll try and play around with screen captures when I get off work in the afternoon.

By Howard Bampton (Bampton) on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 07:37 pm: Edit

http://www.sfb-galactic-conquest.org/U5/MAPS/U5_160_1.gif

Link to U5 map, gif format, as promised. No Microsoft products were used in process- Wine and GIMP under Linux.

By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 10:32 pm: Edit

What do the green and red colors represent on the map?

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 07:12 am: Edit

Red blobs are UnNav Space, just like the Andro campaign.

Green streaks are Radiation Zones and do "interesting" things to sensors, cloaks, and AF/DF. Its exact effects will be in the Rulebook.

By Bennett Eugene Snyder (Planner) on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 08:27 pm: Edit

I can't open the map. Isn't it through Cyberboard?

By Bennett Eugene Snyder (Planner) on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 09:02 pm: Edit

I now have Cyberboard v303. Is the map an older version?

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 09:12 pm: Edit

I think they use an older version. Also you probably need change the name of the file from .unk to .gbx .

By Bennett Eugene Snyder (Planner) on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 04:29 pm: Edit

I tried that. Do I need to add .exe?

By Howard Bampton (Bampton) on Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 08:23 pm: Edit

They use an older version. I think you can read the older versions, but can not save in the older format. I.e. until/unless John and Mike upgrade, you can not send V3.x .gbx files to them.

The map file is a data file. exe files are executable. Making data files executable (or running ones that are) is rarely a good idea.

The BBS software, for whatever reason, "fixes" the filenames from foo.gbx to foo_gbx.unk. When you download them you need to correct this bug and rename them back to foo.gbx as Ryan noted.

By William Gary Glattli II (Wglattli) on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 06:50 am: Edit

It has probably already been said, but I just take the file that is downloaded and just rename it. So, when it is named "Seltorian_161_2.gbx", it works just fine.

You can name it whatever you want... just make certain it has a "xxx.gbx" file extension on the end.

Gary

By Kurt Byanski (Kurtski) on Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 09:11 pm: Edit

Converting Cyberboard’s *.gbx file format into bitmaps (*.bmp):

• Save the *.gbx file you want to convert someplace you can browse for it. I usually put the most recent map in the directory with its corresponding turn information (by turn year).

• In your Cyberboard directory, open an instance of CBPlay.exe. In the menus at the top of the active CBPlay window, open the following: File...New...Scenario. Now, in the popup box browse for your CB map file.

• A window will pop up and you will have three choices: Game Scenario, Playing Boards, and Playing Piece Trays. Choose Playing Boards. In the next popup screen choose Player Map. This will move you back to the previous popup and you should now see "Player Map" as an option under the Playing Boards heading.

• Click on "Player Map". You should now see your map.

• There will be a series of menu headings near the top of the window. click on Edit.

• In the dropdown for this menu heading click on "Save Board Image in File". This will open a popup browser window which will allow you to choose a location for your new image file.

The image will be bitmap so you will need to convert it something a bit more useful. Good old Microsoft Paint can convert it to a number of formats including *.jpg and *.gif.

Good luck!

By Howard Bampton (Bampton) on Tuesday, June 06, 2017 - 09:31 am: Edit

For the UNIX(tm)/UNIX-like types:
* Use WINE to run CBPlay as Kurt notes above. Make note of the resulting .bmp file name/location.
* Use the "convert" program from the ImageMagick package: convert foo.bmp foo.gif

By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Saturday, June 10, 2017 - 10:10 am: Edit

Make sure you are using the current version of the package.

From US-CERT:
ImageMagick, an open-source image processing software suite, has released versions 7.0.1-1 and 6.9.3-10 to address a vulnerability in previous software versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.