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I haven't played this game in a while and now I suddenly find myself unable to run it. I like this game so much, losing access is not an option for me. I have read that there are solutions, but none of them works.

• One I thought about myself was Windows compatibility mode. Effect: as always, that is, it didn't work. I have never seen compatibility mode actually work.
• The game is supposed to be supported by Scumm VM since version 2.5, I have version 2.8.1. However, when I select the game folder, I get the message: "Scumm VM didn't find any game in the specified directory!". (The exclamation mark annoys me most, as if it was supposed to be something cheerful...) I have no idea what I could be doing wrong.
• Supposedly it can work with the following roundabout: download AGS, take the file acwin.exe, put it in the game folder and use it instead of the proper game executable. It didn't work. First I got the message: "Executing code cannot be continued, because SDL2.dll object was not found. Reinstalling the program could solve this issue". I downloaded the SDL2.dll file and placed it in the game folder too and now I get another error message: "Application was not properly launched (0xc000007b). Click OK to abort the application".

I never even wanted to use Windows 10. I resisted it for long, I gave up because otherwise my new printer coudln't even be detected and installed. And now I find myself with free time (my period just started, so I can't cycle within the next three days) and no possibility to play a game I really love...
I'm no specialist in technical issues, so it may be that there's a simple trick to make any of these methods actually work... but I can't have an idea what it might be. I could really use some help.
P.S. I don't have Virtual Box installed currently. I should, but I can't set it up by myself, and my cousin who knows technical stuff never found time for that (I wanted to play Sierra's "Take a Break! Pinball", and even on Windows XP the game runs, but paddle controls don't work, it requires an even older version)... and the the switch to Windows 10 came and, for a time, I gave up Virtual Box to save space on the (borrowed, by the way) external disk used for moving my files... Of course I could install Virtual Box right now, but I'm afraid that I might be unable to set up a working virtual Windows 7 by myself.

[original Sokoban]

I'm posting again because I have a question about the original Sokoban which no one has been able to effectively answer on Moby Games.
I tried to just copy my favourite extra levels into original Sokoban with the level editor. However... how to mark the starting place? The place where the player is standing at the start of the level? I copied the first of those "Extra" levels, but the player should be in the bottom right corner at the start. I get "thrown" into the middle of the map and can't solve the level from there. Can anything be done about it? It would be a little absurd if the creators of original Sokoban omitted such an important detail...
I don't like the Sokoban clones such as YASC - sophisticated graphics which are, anyway, quite ugly, and too large for my taste. Can I do something about the problem in original Sokoban or, if I can't, is there a Sokoban clone with simple pixel graphics? And without a gazillion of functions which I don't even understand...

EDIT: I have figured it out and I'll post it in case anyone else has this problem. After you place everything, move your "cursor" to an empty square without placing a storage place or box there. The editor will remember it as your starting point.