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Typo in home page:

It's Chaos Strikes Back - not Chaos Strikes back

Yes - I used it as a reference point.
No. Everything was normal.

After solving the mirror puzzle ...

Grap a mirror and push it into the teleporter's area. Wait till they move away and then push it one more. Go back and get another mirror. Push it likewise but use your "Push/left" (which doesn't work). Now you can step into the NW-most square and the teleport's ...

Beowuuf: I did bring it up -- in a message that disappeared. I have since found it in an archive area. But it was really gone for a while - even the forum's search engine couldn't find it.

One point is that we have monsters in corners of a square, on the 2 (4!) sides, and in the center. The minion ...

Oh, yes - an example.

Take the Imp maze. There are several corridors where we want the fireballs to follow the corridor. A spinner doesn't work. A mirror would - be want a haze and not a big gizmo filling the pathway.

(Something for the wish list.)

OK, I found my old message in the archives. The search feature of the forum didn't see it for some reason.

Anyway, the problem is dumping the party 2 levels down. I always lose 1 character and usually 2. And then I have to go get back inside - and found myself locked out.

Perhaps a trigger in ...

George: Now that you have spell mirrors, teleporters need similar actions. Unless there is some other invisible 'object' that implements that.

The Fantasy Trip had a Magic Fist spell - plus Fireball and Lightning. It was fast and invisible in TFT. For RTC, maybe take a rock and recolor it. It would use Blunt Damage.

Or maybe a icicle? It would use Sharp damage.

And I think someone created a Snowball in one of the example dungeons.

I don't have DOSBox + DM2 running, so this is a question for someone who does.

There is a 'safe' square in the maze - just north of the illusionary walls. I remember finding this when I played IBM/DM2 several years ago.

Step one square north and one square west - you'll be facing a button. Stand ...

Explosions inside illusionary wall appear on the surface of the wall.

I'm not sure this a total bug. It makes sense to have some indication visible. Maybe use a small(er) explosion graphic for the part of explosion that extends beyond the illusionary square.

The guide implies that the party and a friendly minion can co-exist in a square. It doesn't work in RTC. Could someone with DOSBox+DM2 check if the IBM version allows it?

I stepped between a Ram and said levitating table. The Ram pushed me into the square with the table as if it wasn't there.

In FTL/DM2, the teleporter critters could not occupy the same square as a porter/scout minion, lamp, or mirror. (OK, tables were probably excluded too - I never tried one.)

I built a wall from the mirrorpuzzle over the quad pit puzzle. That isn't possible in 0.42.

In FTL/DM2, mirrors can be swung. As in Push/Pull Left/Right.

Push a table over an open pit - it just levitates there.

In the Zo corridor/pit after the second Earth Key door, the guide says there is alever that closes the pit. RTC/DM2 doesn't have the levelr.

Another ST versus AMiga versus IBM issue?

When a character gains a level, the eye has green around it. When you examine the stats and see the changed level in green, the green around the eye is removed.

You can also see red around the eye - usually because a stat has changed and the current level is low.

But I have seen cases where the ...

(I mentioned this in another message for 0.42, but the message disappeared.)

When you press the button that pops the Earth Key out of its hole, the button also opens the pit - so the key drops down. In RTC's version, the party entering the square opens the pit.

Is this a variation between DM2 ...

In FTL, tables (etc) used what is now known as a gesture menu. You hold the mouse button down (with the hand on the edge of the table) and then move the mouse to select the eight choices. It was fast.

In RTC, you click on the table and get a menu on the side. And it's not the full eight choice menu ...

Just a little whin - when you click on "log in", the focus is not in the user-name gadget. You have to click to move it there.

Some things I think are possible bugs:

I have not seen the Thorn Demons (cattle) regenerate.

At the boiler room, I put the key in the hole, pressed the button and the key drops out. But no pit appears. If you try to get the key - THEN the pit opens.

I got locked out do to lack of large gears. The ...

OK. It sounds like I need to get my copy of DOSBox out and find IBM-DM2.

GG:
Keep up the great work!

I put 2 postings on GG's request for last second bugs for 0.42 and both are gone this morning.

http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... hp?t=25815

Question: what is the regeneration time of the green gems? In DM2, they come back after a while - so it pays to go around on a harvest run.

In DM2, the blue gems on the lowest level don't seem to regenerate. Looking at RTC's version, I spotted a 'sub-quest' "Harvest all the Gems". Maybe the two ...

I was in the wolf area and had one trot up to me. Remembering DM2 that they nip you for maybe 5 HP, I waited to see how a RTC wolf worked. It went nip for 50+ HP and almost killed the character.

Also, when an RTC wolf dies, they howl. It is suppose to be when they get hurt that the howlwas to ...

In DM2, tables can rotated. You would grab the table edge and move the mouse left/right.

In DM2, the flaming pots can be push/pulled like tables (rotation isn't useful, of course). Very importnat to use to block passages.

I thought the cookie would identify me. Nope. Now I'm logged it ...

anyway, now 'guest' is identified

(1) I would like the ceiling to be allowed to be larger (wider) than the viewport size and then have the engine scroll the image as you move. This would give a parallex (sp) effect. Maybe eventually allow more than one 'celing' graphic with differing widths.

(2) Gardens of the Imagination had the ...

I tweaked the DM.txt file and compiled it. I am seeing crashes when a door kills a monster. No bug report - the program just exits.

Go inside to the area with the fuel. Stand next to the fuel carts. Look at the map. You will see a room behind the wall. Presumily where the fuel in mined. You can't get there.