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My most memorable moment:

I had just figured out how to cast Ful Ir. I was cruising around the 4th level, and I saw a couple worms down the hall. I immediately unleashed the strongest Ful Ir I could manage, then proceeded to charge down the hall full tilt on the tail of the raging ball of fire ...

Anyone heard of this? It's a pretty obscure game that came out around 1993, published by Microprose. It was actually the last game developed by the legendary company Magnetic Scrolls, who were mainly known for their graphical interactive fiction games with very sophisticated parsers.

This game is ...

Gambit37 wrote:You can probably now begin to understand why nobody has bothered doing this before... It's not really difficult, just very, very time consuming...

*sigh*

That was more or less the impression I got when this topic last came up about 8 months ago.

Marco.

Some time around December/January, there was some talk around here about creating a verstion of DM2 with the Amiga graphics for use with RTC. I remember George Gilbert stating that he wasn't planning on doing this, but there were a few other people interested in generating the alternate version. Has ...

I would actually like to play DM2 on RTC with the original Amiga graphics -- they're less cartoony and have the "look & feel" that is more consistent with the original DM/CSB.

Has someone gotten around to creating an alternate set of graphics.dat files that can be substituted for the ones that come ...

(*snip*)...in some versions you can take a step toward the door and then quickly backstep, so the door will be open and Lord Librasulus will be visible with some nightsky horizon in the background, but unless you approach him again you can go back into the dungeon in order to attain the powergem ...

I was a huge Bard's Tale fan back in the day, and I've been eyeing Devil's Whiskey for a while. Haven't gotten around to buying it yet, though. It's supposed to be a tribute to the Bard's Tale series. I would love to play another Bard's Tale game, one that uses the same character classes, bard songs ...

Ah, Doom. I forgot about that little itty bitty revolution of the computer gaming industry.

Marco.

Wow... Okay, you're going to have to answer me this, then:

Why on earth would you have willingly chosen to use a PC over an Amiga when you had access to both? In this gaming era that we're talking about, virtually everything worth playing was coming out for both systems. Many of them only had third ...

The 386 and even the 486 machines were screaming in agony..

Oh definitely! I remember those days well -- the early to mid 90's. The games were pushing hard on that famous limitation imposed by His Shortsighted Highness, Mr. William "640K should be enough for anyone" Gates. I remember the ...

Ultima Underworld is definitely a classic. I too am not a fan of the fully 3D dungeons, so it's a testament to the quality of the game that I loved it so much. The dungeon was richly designed and atmospheric, with just the right mix of monsters, puzzles, interaction with non-hostile characters, plot ...

Never tried editing EoB portraits. Hex editing is mostly useless due to the fact that you can customize your characters' HP and statistics. It can be done, though, and you can hex edit your characters' experience, levels, and inventory if you're really shameless about cheating. (which I am :) ). One ...

M&M 5? You mean Darkside of Xeen? Wouldn't it be essentially the same engine as Clouds of Xeen?

Marco.

As far as I know, the password thing is bogus. I played the game several times through and always completed all the special quests, and don't ever remember getting a password for my efforts. The quests themselves weren't that hard, once you knew about them, and I was able to figure most of them out ...

Works now! Nice stuff. I'm looking forward to the sprites for the other things.

Incidentally, I have a complete collection of monster sprites from Eye of the Beholder III and Dungeon Hack if anyone is interested. Unfortunately, I generated them when I wasn't very savvy about these sorts of things ...

I've tried with both Firefox and IE, doing every combination of right clicking & "save target" and left clicking. I've also tried opening it with WinZip, WinRAR, and the generic windows zip decompressor. Never had so much trouble with a simple zip file. *shrug*

At any rate, I'll just sit back ...

I happened to like both series. The main strength of the EoB series is in its presentation -- I'm normally not a sucker for pretty eye candy, but EoB looked good compared to DM. The games were very fluid, and on a technical level, I found them quite impressive.

Beyond the graphical aspect, the ...

Wow, lots of progress!

Gambit37, that zip file with all the LOL monsters seems to be corrupt. Do you have another version of it?

Marco.

I remember that item from years ago when I first played DM on my Apple 2GS, and it's always bothered me. I've used the RTC conversion of the kid dungeon, but unfortunately we're not supplied with the text file that can be opened in the RTC editor, so we can't see what that item is.

Can the CSBWin ...

I found out about this game and its sequel while I was poking around some Amiga sites looking for Black Crypt (since a lot of people around here seem to like it). I haven't tried Abandoned Places 1 and 2 yet, but they seem to be very similar to DM. Are they any good?

Apparently there was a PC port ...

It really isn't a good game. It's fun at first, and then gets rapidly boring. It interesting to see all the different monters (there really are a lot of them), but once I was able to extract all the sprites, that wasn't a reason to play the game anymore.

The other irritating thing is that they ...

Has any progress been made with the extraction of graphics from Lands of Lore 1? Years ago I tried out some of the tools that were posted here, but I was never able to get them to work properly.

Marco.