Dungeon Master Forum

I think I'm older than you by a few years then. I was ten when I first tried Dungeon Master at a friend's house, and eleven before I could save up enough money to upgrade my Apple IIGS to actually play it on my own computer. I recall my IIGS came with 512MB (The ROM 1 had 256K on the motherboard but ...

I played the Apple IIGS version as a kid. I tended to use the keyboard to move and the mouse to attack with weapons or spells. There were no keyboard equivalents for weapon use, but you could fire off a spell with the keyboard.
I'm not sure if I could have pulled off the step-dance with just the ...

Somebody did release a version of DM for Android that fits your desires, but it's been taken down, probably for copyright reasons. See my previous post.

>Does getting caught between two sets of worms entail that you've made a mistake progressing through the level, or possibly >triggered some creature generator that puts some fresh worms behind you?

Well, there isn't much treasure worth seeking out that you'd miss if you decide to take the "shortcut ...

Except poison bolts, those are single target. I did tests with trollins as a kid, but not as good as some people as I didn't have any tools like hex editors in that pre-internet era. Here are my observations from memory (as my notes are locked up in a crate/chest in mom's basement, well my basement ...

I agree, raiding the items in the oitus regeneration room is the hardest or at least most dangerous part of the game, followed by facing the worms at the end of level 4 when there's a possibility of getting sandwiched between two pairs of worms in a corridor when you retreat. Heck, even getting ...

Did you fall through a pit from the level above? Both the easiest and hardest way to kill the dragon is to fall on him from a pit from above. It's an instant kill, but setting that up is difficult due to the random nature of movement and you have no way to know where the dragon is when you are above ...

Compared to some of the games I've seen today, especially the "Pixel art" or "Retro style" games, I'd say Dungeon Master's graphics hold up pretty well today. The animation might use a little improvement (a few more frames), but the graphics are very good even today. The resolution might be a tad ...

Wrong assumption: the SNES version is a direct descendant of the Apple IIGS version, so it is an early one (internally it is a version 2.0 engine as shown by the version checker sensor).

The SNES version of DM is based on the Apple IIGS source code because the CPU in the SNES is very similar to ...

I guess some disagree.
It's when the remake tries to do too many changes that I have issues, but if they limit it to some updated graphics and a few simple QOL improvements that don't drastically change the gameplay I wouldn't mind a remake.
It's when they decide the interface needs a massive ...

Is that first damage what spell shield cast from items protects you from? I never figured out what it did, since it didn't seem to help against poison bolts or poison clouds, and fireshield seemed to reduce the damage from fireballs and lightning bolts cast by enemies.

On the Apple IIGS version for stupid reasons you can only have one save per 3.5" diskette even though with how quickly the game loads the same there is no way it is using up the entire disk. Photonix II takes considerably longer to read a 3.5" disk and when it was released people were amazed because ...

I recall one time I played the dragon was no where in sight and I proceeded to the area with the power gem, only to get hit in the back with a big fireball while examining the power gem as I didn't have any fireshields up.
Good thing there's an Alter of Vi in that same area.

I didn't know you could kill the golems or armor at all with fireballs. For the longest time I thought they were immune to magic the way mummies are immune to poison.
Nor did I know the water elemental was vulnerable to poison clouds.
However 16 lightning bolts explains why I never killed a golem ...

Yeah - freezing the Dragon and then spamming it with Poison Clouds is just cruel.....


--Jay

Actually I almost never use OH VEN on the dragon.
Instead I freeze him and then tribute to him a couple poison bombs I picked up earlier along with all the FUL Bombs I have left. When the green ...

Of the five offensive spells, it seems odd that one of them seems like just an inferior copy with no advantages over casting Fireball. It always seems like an inferior copy.
Does anybody have any particular monsters that they tend to kill with lightning bolts over fireballs?
Supposedly lightning ...

I'm surprised so few people use poison bolt. I myself never found much use for lightning bolt or poison cloud except in certain situations.
Supposedly lightning bolt works on animated armor or stone golems, but I honestly don't remember ever killing either of those things with lightning. In every ...

Technically yes. Tactically it is not the best strategy.

In any case, back on the original topic the oitus room on level 12 is a place to train, although it's not as safe as the rat room and definitely not as safe as the screamer room. The main advantage is that it's deeper in the dungeon so you ...

I don't have a working version of DM to test this out, but pretty sure it works. Did you check the map I linked to? It's only a couple of squares away from the floor plate.

Since they revamped the website it is much harder to find the downloads (or most of the things I'm actually trying to find ...

I'm assuming you mean YA BRO and YA IR? I didn't realize they stacked, I thought they were the same thing only the potion was ST with a longer duration and the spell was party-wide.
Still learn something new about DM even after 35 years.

Unless you split them by killing one or more of the creatures in the group. A fireball can turn a group of four trollins into a single trollin.


On the subject of creature generators, I've often wondered what it is that triggers Fire Elementals to respawn - sometimes a new one pops up as soon as ...

You can't get a fully equipped team until the game is practically over, as the last one is when you choose which door/treasure to acquire on level 7 before retrieving the Firestaff. After that you just have to get the power gem and fuse Lord Chaos.
That said, having everyone use boots of speed does ...

Prince of Elves wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:55 pm There was a whole thread about this with very detailed info on the what/where. If I remember correctly you can train against the black flames in the down below but I don't remember any specifics.

It would help if you linked to the thread.

For me a couple of the most dangerous parts of the game are:
There is a risk on the worm level of retreating from the final set of worms unleashed when you kill the mummy and having a regenerated pair of worms come up behind you leaving you sandwiched between two sets of worms. This is a death ...

I'm pretty sure that is the case, but I had a very hard time quantifying just how effective armor was as a kid.

It's hidden out of sight so I considered it what TVtropes called a "guide dang it"

You might want to check out the hint book at dmweb.free.fr. While the guide has a couple errors in it, the only solution I know of being wrong is the one for the pit maze and I think one button (can't recall which) is one square off on the map. I penciled in a solution in my copy, but it's in ...

Did you mention Sundog: Frozen Legacy during the interview or did he mention it on his own accord?

I'm going to throw a spanner into the works here but to give justice to Dungeon Master you have to give justice to FTL, and to give justice to FTL you need to give justice to Sundog: Frozen Legacy ...

Well, if Tika Waylan was a mere tavern wench who became one of the famed Heroes of the Lance, why can't a couple of Go-Go Girls do the same?

To be fair, in the 20th century researching such things was much harder than it is in this internet age. While the article seems to have been written in 1995 or 1996, the internet was still in its childhood (I won't say infancy because the WWW was established by that point. I'd even say it was ...