Hello. I have had the above game for a long tome now and have failed to ever finish it! Thought I would give it another try and am nearly at the end. You have to put chemical powders into a grate and then set alight. If you get the measurments correct then a huge light envelops the screen, (this is what should happen my walkthrough tells me),instead the symbol of Omega appears and tells me that my game has prematurely ended, and would I like to quit or go back to last save? Actually neither as what I would really like is to continue the game! Any ideas please? Never seen such a thing before?

Lozza,

I moved you to Hints forum from Glitches because this events are part of the game - not a glitch.

This means that you were incinerated-blown up-died because you made a mistake in doing the puzzle. It's like in Nancy Drew games - you have to try again.
If you have a saved game before this puzzle go there and do the puzzle correctly. It is not a glitch.

Thank you. I have had a couple of grey puffs thought that was my signal that I had failed. Thought all was correct when it changed to yellow light. How do I know when All is correct please? How many goes do I get?

You can try as many times you want. No problem there - except this is one frustrating puzzle.

- Be sure that you are NOT clicking on the grate-lever. I you do it discards the powder that you measured.

You'll know that your mixture was right when the disk appears in the grill. You'll see a flash of bright light. When the light goes away, look in the grill.

Thanks Cue.

Hi there. I have filled the grate many many times and always get blown up! Surely by the law of averages I should have got it right at least once!? I am beginning to wonder if I have missed something but I really don't think I have. What do you suggest apart from keep trying. I have checked the scoops and the ammount of powder each time sooooooooo?

Lozza,

I sent you a saved game.
I don't know where the saved game folder is located for TOS.
See if you can find it in the installed TOS game folder.

I have two saved games from around this puzzle, one of which should be right after it. I probably played on Windows 98 or 2000, possibly XP (almost sure it wasn't XP). Would saved games from another computer with a different version of Windows work?

Never mind. I see Marita sent one already.

Hi Jenny,
Thanks. Appreciate it. Lucky I have one but with no memory of where files are located.

With Windows 98, 2000, or early XP, the savegames would probably be put in a different location from Windows 7/8/10 anyway.

Mine were in
C:\Program Files\The Omega Stone\Savegames

but that's playing in Windows 98 or 2000
My saves are from 2003

Windows 7/8/10 would probably put them in a subfolder of the hidden AppData folder or possibly in a subfolder of the Users folder.

Thank you very much all I wil endeavour to do your bidding. Let you know soon. thanks once again.

Hello and Thanks to all who heiped me with this game, thanks again mates. One last try of the powder measuring and I cracked it! Moved on to the placing of the discs took me a while but passed that one too, Then put the lid on the pot and there I was finally finished. I have had this game seven years and never got out of the water caverns with the correct amount of skulls and or scrolls. I did enjoy playing but could have never done it without your help. I could not use your "save" as I was told that I have a terabyte (prob spelled wrong)machine and also Windows ten soooooooo. Took a while and a lot of writing down to do the final disc placing but it was manage. Before I go I would just like to tell you I have just started playing Barrow Hill The Dark Path so to save your sanity run for the hills Ha ha. Thank you again. Lozza.

That's great! for solving the difficult puzzles.
Dark Path is a fun game. Enjoy!

Congrats on sticking with it and finishing the game Lozza!

Thank you. but I could not do most of my games without your walkthroughs. Any game I fancy I check there is a walkthrough done by you. If not I don't buy it! I played the first Barrow Hill so looking foward to this next one. See you soon.

Thanks. Glad GB can help. Happy Gaming!