Well... I don't get it to work. I used to be able to create my own starter files like 10 years ago and I remember having problems with images even then, but at least it worked.
Now I only get a "syntax error" from the publishing process, whenever I use images which I saved via Photoshop or MS Paint. Tried a few different palette settings, bmp and pcx, different image sizes.
I've tried taking an old indexed pcx which comes with GStudio (for example palette.pcx or inventory.pcx), that works, but when I re-save them they don't work anymore. Do I have to dig out some painting tool from last decade/ millennium?
Can someone else maybe try to create a starter file, for example with the following test image: http://superku.de/starter_sk.bmp ?

Thanks!

EDIT:

The WDF Compiler is from A3, stick with DOS names (8.3 length, like start_sk.bmp) and it will work.

Yes, really

rename attachment to .wdf (looks somewhat broken, though)

Wow... that's actually amazing, thank you a lot! =)
Quite unfortunate that I resaved said template files by adding a "2" at the end and thus exceeded the galactic character limit of... 8.