Creatures Caves

Jessi, can you please share with me how you make your COBs? Do you use a program, or something of your own creation? I have tried using BobCob and others, but everything I've tried is either incompatible or missing files. I used to use BobCob in the past with my older computer, but now that I've upgraded my rig with Win7 none of my old tricks seem to work. I know the lingo of scripting COB's for the most part and still have my old CAOS guides and tutorials, but I still need a program to compile everything, right?

Is my system missing VisualBasic or C++ support in order for BobCob to run properly? I wouldn't even know how to tell. I even tried using the BobCob 1.44 from AmberCreatures, and it worked at first without a hiccup, but as soon as I tried opening an existing COB file for editing, I was bombarded with "Runtime Error : Type Mismatch." After that, BobCob wouldn't even start up.

I'm also using the Creatures version distributed through GOG.com so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it?

This problem is killing me now that I'm finally experienced enough to work out and understand the tech jargon of scripting with CAOS since my heydays of playing Creatures as a teen and wondering how the heck downloading and installing COBs actually worked.

Anyways, sorry for the rambling. Hope you or anyone else is able to give me some advice here.

~Pankypie