Is there any chance to update New Horizons to the latest build for Malestrom? I would fix the aesthetic issues one by one, but I cannot make it start with the new updates...
I don't think I will do that. The intention was for their own community to update it, but that did not happen. I did the port as proof it could work because their forum has many posts where they supposedly wished the engine would be updated to DX9 and the newer 2.8 elements and I had hoped this work would provide them an incentive to take what I had done and proceed with updates from that point; they apparently are not really interested.
I have forgotten many of the needed changes and if I try to update, I will probably overwrite many of the changes again with the old, incompatible things, then since I don't know anything about New Horizons and never play it myself, it will go back to where in those old conversations with pedrwyth, when he was testing, a bunch of things will be found as broken again and I will have to investigate and redo changes just like I already had to do and that is very time consuming and I feel like it's not worth my time if they as a community are not interested.
There are a couple things that might help:
Something like FreeFileSync (https://freefilesync.org/) will allow you to compare the Program/Resource files with a "binary" comparison so you can limit investigation for things that are truly a difference and ignore things that are unchanged.
For the changed/different Program or other text files, use a visual file diff tool to quickly find the differences.
Thank you Jeffrey, you are the man! I have updated the Resources folder (including INI folder) and no bugs syntax errors so far. Errors start to occur when updating PROGRAM folder, but I can see that 80% of the files can be updated, the other ones cannot because of the updated engine (at least that seems logical). I might have something in a couple of days. Then I can start fixing the aesthetic issues mostly related to position of some icons in sailing and world map mode. If I succeed, I will start promoting maelstrom engine on Youtube, because like it or not, New Horizons is still the most popular mod for Storm engine games. That should be used to boost the sale of Maelstrom engine and hopefully make all this amazing work that you do payable.