Hello,
I found the DK1 Map editor thread and followed the instruction for getting it to run written by user name DeMignon. It still crashes on me. I am running Windows 7 home premium 64 bit operating system. I changed the compatibility to Windows 95, 98, and XP and run in administrator mode and it still crashes. I get the title screen and then the cd image screen. It crashes at the cd image screen. Also once I change the path in the keeper.cfg file to use the editor I can no longer play the game. Do I have to change it back and forth every time I want to use the editor? Any thoughts and help would be appreciated, thanks.

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I apologize it has taken me a few days to get back to posting. I made a copy of my dungeon keeper folder and made a new folder on the C: drive. Then followed the editor instructions. It works now, but I get a color glitch every now and again. The best way to describe it is the colors go all rainbow colored. I am not worried about the color issue as once I save, log out, and restart the program the colors are back to normal. Is there anyway I can configure DosBox to use with the editor so that the special slow down and the scrolling descriptions can be read? Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately no, you can't run the editor in DOSBox. It was shipped with the Dungeon Keeper: Gold Edition, which was Windows only. As far as I know, there's no DOS version of this editor.

The rainbow color glitch happens because the editor is trying to use its own exclusive color palette, but this doesn't always work on newer Windows versions.
The easiest way to fix this, is shutting down the explorer.exe task while using the editor.

- Start the editor
- Press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the Taskmanager
- Switch to “Process” tab, locate “explorer.exe”, click the “End Process” button and confirm the operation
- Once the explorer is shut down the Taskbar is gone as well, but the colors in the editor should be fine
- Use Alt-Tab to jump back to the editor
- After you're done editing, you want to start the explorer again. Go back to the Taskmanager.
- Select "File" on the menu bar and then "New Task”. Enter “explorer” to restart the Explorer.

Alternatively write your own batch file to automate the process:
- Make a plain text file (e.g. DKEditor.txt) and save it on the Desktop
- Write and save the following text in this file:

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
C:\DK1\dkedit.exe
start explorer.exe

- Now rename DKEditor.txt to DKEditor.bat
- Start the editor by starting DKEditor.bat

Thanks for all the help DeMignon!!