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Zyx wrote: Well, if I had time, my next dungeon would be much more abstract in its behavior. It would adapt to the player with a certain personality. The game would be as much to survive as to understand the mind of the dungeon, and manage to dialog and "tame" it. I mean that the dungeon w...

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I hardly remember Black Crypt, but it left the impression of being extremely difficult. It featured some cool features like monsters being only killable with a certain weapon, or monsters only being visible if you are wearing a certain item. I'd actually like to play it again. I love these ideas! O...

Identifying the bug is always a great news! :D I had a nasty feeling, that (if investigation fails) - since GG is no more actively repairing bugs - you`d have to rebuild some parts of the dungeon.. or start it over.. I was thrilled, because I`m waiting for your dungeon to be released! :wink: Imagine...

I don`t have idea about RTC, but it`s too bad if it`s totally random and not fatal either (no bug pop-ups?). You`ve got to find out some regularities to find out what kind of a bug is this - if any. What kind of doors are missing? Ordinary ones or rather these with custom graphics? With a switch, op...

like on this example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv ... ion_143076
A non-euclidean geometry is something that I always liked to see in DM style games without using ordinary teleporters - it would confuse player the most.

Ian, just wait till they release a new version of SS - DCSSv0.7 (dosens of new features).

Excellent news Trant! I will certainly try it..
Congratulations!!!!!!!

256- colour bitmaps in CSBwin? Marvelous! How did you do it, Ras??
Is there a way to update 16- colour bitmaps to 256 colour ones in Conflux? No doubt this game deserves it..

this one should work:

I was thinking of something like this:
The party is marked on a map facing North, South, East, West respectively. The map is always faced North.
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ok.. to be honest, I found those Belfast 1928-like vidoes a joke :) A lady would need a base transceiver station to speak a phone! ;) As for the time travelling it`s the physics itself that excludes that kind of things. To travel the time (backwards) you`d have to move faster than light (= that`d re...

Rasmus wrote: I am playing CSB now are a little bit annoyed over not having the map-scroll.. So I was thinking about inserting it into the game.. Does anyone has a screenshot of what the map looks like on CSB for amiga? My thoughts about the map in DM : Map feature is rather always cool (well, not a...

Time travelling evidence!!! A woman speaking cellphone catch on a documentary movie showing Belfast from 1928!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81155501/

Paul Stevens wrote: If I wanted to do this I would create a new screen buffer in 16-bit or 32-bit pixels. We could throw out most of Viewport.cpp. Then I would see if I could make a version of TAG0088b2 that could write to the new screen buffer with the old format bitmaps as input. Then gradually re...

This is very interesting (and ambitious) project! From what I read so far, they want to make this game in a cartridge (this means practically no memory limitations). The game is on cartridge, so it would require nothing but a plain, 64kB Atari. They are making home-made amateur cartridges - it`s not...

I would love to see that early demo as a short youtube-like movie. Christophe, can you record a movie showing old demo?

oh well! I guess this is extremally rare stuff! You`re great ene!!! It`s interesting to see how the game evolved (interface especially) from rather obscure D&D game to the final Dungeon Master jewel... Plus some good ideas like amulets detecting things... and - check it out - you could place the...

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Tatra is on the edge of bankruptcy. It still might survive, but the chance is not big.

I dodn`t know that. That`s sad The trucks are beautifull: http://tatra.cz/web_en/default_en.asp

If Paul`s Atari wouldn`t die, he would never write CSBwin and Zyx would never create Conflux out of it. Thanx God it happened!

Try fitting Dungeon Master onto a single 1.4 MByte floppy and 512K bytes of memory (including the CRT graphics buffer and (essentially) a 4 MHz processor. I thought DM/CSB were first released on Atari ST on 720 kB DD floppy and required buying additional 512 kB RAM (with standard Atari 0.5 Mb it gi...

Is it this part the code you`re trying to investigate, Bit?
http://dmweb.free.fr/files/DMII-Game-PC-ASM.rar

oh, there actually is DM2 graphics.dat editor by Kentaro! My fault, sorry for a mess... :/ http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/721
edit: I just opened DM2 graphics.dat in DM2GED and there`s A LOT to investigate... and A LOT of features... Generally, an impreesive amount of stuff!

Building a dungeon on DM2 engine wouldn`t be a bad idea, but you`d have to enlarge the database (1024 actuators so far...). It`s not impossible, since Paul did this with CSBwin, but it`s still a serious technical problem in DM2 engine. You`d need to understand the code first, though (Bit is currentl...

Note there are little differences between some DM and CSBs actions ( http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/690 ). While in DM warcrying gives you the "influence" (priest skill) - just like blow horn action does - in CSB it was modified (gives "parry" - priest skill - instead of "infl...

Well done! Paul did make a special maze-making tool if you`re interested in using his algorythms:
http://www.dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/MakeMaze.zip (check this file, it can create random dungeon using defined values).

BTW, Dungeon Hack is a gooood idea.

if anybody wants to check it out, it`s here: http://www.mypicx.com/09172010/Conflux3/

Basing on heavily modified ASCII dump file I made "plain" maps for Conflux (I think that was 3.0 version - I`m not sure). I made them mostly for myself, but thought that can be used by others, too. The idea was that the player gets completely plain, binary (0/1) maps, print them and mark b...

Well, I didn`t like EOB2 and EOB3 as much as EOB1. This applies to DM2, too. DM1 and CSB were much better IMO. Continuations are sometimes worse than the original. Kes, if you want to play EOB2, there`s a special clone on the way ( http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=28626 )...