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Awesome, thank you Christophe.
I'm not seeing a theme selector in the ucp? I've been through every tab/option.
Happy to make a new logo. We could put an SVG in there which will look much better. I'll investigate.

The Gor coin was a CSB thing, it did not come with any version of DM.

Yes I'm seeing that frequently too, although it only appears briefly and then a refresh loads the forum again.

FYI I forgot to mention this before: flying spells don't seem to get the chunky treatment, they still look high-res compared to everything else when this lores mode is active.

Absolutely. All that is taken into account. Doug shared some info about Sundog, but not much new from what you can already learn elsewhere.

Something is in the works...

Nice. An optimistic "close to nil" is still not nil.

I genuinely don't recall early DSB doing that. Very cool that you originally had it.

Perhaps, but I certainly wasn't buying *all* the magazines. Mostly it was Amiga Action, Amiga Format, CU Amiga and CVG. I also bought ST magazines when they featured DM/CSB information, even though I didn't have an Atari ST... It's kinda nuts how obsessed I was with these games back then!

There ...

Thanks for the link ZalewaPl, I've read that thread before, but it's good to review it again. What a mess this retro hobby has made for itself! :D

(Also, it's unfortunate that the screenshots on that page are all on Imgur. Now I can't see any of them. Looks like I'm gonna have to start using a VPN ...

Gambit37, could such a demo have appeared many months ahead of the game's release, even before extensive reviews appeared in magazines?


It's possible I suppose but that would have been an unusual practice at the time. Magazine demo discs usually came out around the time of a game's release or ...

Good point Christophe. I'm aware of that Amiga demo, but also at a loss to how it was distributed. I used to buy any magazine back in the day that had even the merest mention of DM/CSB and I really can't recall any of them ever had a cover disc.

CSBWin can be played in a kind of fullscreen mode if I recall. It's been years since I've played it, but I think you need to fiddle with some coordinates in a config file.

I'm looking for a way to replicate the "glow in the dark" pixels of the screamer, swamp slime and Couatl.

I can't find a way of doing this, and suspect the only way is to have some kind of extra graphic that could be rendered in "fullbright" mode (no shading) at the same coordinates as the monster ...

If a 3D shooter was intended for a 4:3 screen and you run it on a 16:9, you will simply see more to the left and right.

True, but that's not what I was referring to. Quake had actual "squashed" circular geometry and similarly squashed textures for the circular windows and archways: these were ...

RTC CSB isn't an exact copy of the original game. It's possible the timings of some puzzles are off.

Reconsidering this, I think perhaps you're mis-remembering. FTL said they didn't take out any adverts for DM because the anticipation for the game was already off the charts and it sold itself through pre-interest and word of mouth. I find it unlikely that they made a cover-disc demo for magazines ...

Thanks Christophe, you beat me to it and of course are absolutely correct.
One thing to note is that although it's implied in Christophe's info above, it's not explicitly stated:

Pixels back in the day were not square, they were 1.2 times taller than wide.

(Although, that did depend on how the ...

Any other image host should be fine. Another user recently had success with https://postimages.org/
Note that I'm off to bed now -- I can look at this tomorrow.

This is the sort of thing that interests me and I can help with, but I can't see your images because Imgur now prevent UK users from viewing any content. Would it be possible for you to host the images elsewhere? Many thanks.

Crazy, right? That said, I'm not sure about the Steam Machine. It seems a bit underpowered and could age badly. But that's based on me previously owning a top of the range hand-built PC (which I dismantled, sold in parts on eBay, and is now nothing more than a memory, aha!)

I'm happy it's there -- I don't mind the brief interruption if it helps to keep the bots away

After you mentioned this, I went to archive.org and searched for "Dungeon Master" + "cover disk" (and some variants). All I came up with was Edward Penman's "Dungeon Master Editor" that was on one cover disk. I couldn't find any actual demo of DM. But this was only a quick check, it would likely ...

FYI the loading animation was slower today and I could see it says "Making sure you're not a bot...".

Oh. My. Goodness! New Valve hardware in 2026.

Which quite possibly also means the third episode of a certain game to play on it! (Maybe... Please!)

I was done with mainstream gaming, but this... this is something that could bring me back!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

This is cool, a nice useful app you've made there, well done.

Would you have any objections to me porting that to JavaScript so it can be used on the web?

I don't think it needs fixing, I saw the same as Ameena: a big cog for a split second and then the forum loads.

I can't currently add anything using the Donate button, there's a problem with my PayPal account which I need to resolve first. I'll sort that out and make a donation.

EDIT: Donation now ...

Just checking in. Did something change with hosting recently? I noticed the site was offline for a bit and when I looked today, some kind of bot challenge filled the page before the site loaded.

Whether the host changed or not, I'm happy to donate towards current and future hosting, let me know the ...

scorpio wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:21 pm Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve updated all the image URLs to a different hosting service, so UK users should be able to see them now.

That's awesome, thank you so much for doing this, I really appreciate it.

Nice, thank you for doing this, what a great gift to all Spanish speaking DM fans!
I was wondering if you could use a different service instead of Imgur to host your images? UK users can no longer view anything linked on there, they disabled all UK access due to our new privacy laws

I too don't recall any demo of DM given away on a magazine, would be cool if you could find that @aster.

There were demos of DM2 given away in the mid 90s on various magazines, but I think those were all CD demos, and not floppy disc.