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I checked the cookies for the site, and three exist while logged in. As soon as I close the tab and return to the site, when I check the cookies they have been deleted. I suspect Chrome is deleting them silently because it still thinks the site is unsafe.

I've added the domain into Chrome's "Always ...

This is very cool, great work! It's wonderful to see DM running in new contexts.

Will this version always need to decode a graphics.dat, or could it be extended to read external image files? And could those external images have a higher bit depth? You can see where I'm going with this....

I have ...

I'll try another browser for a while and see if that makes a difference. Chrome is normally pretty reliable, but I think its security filters black marked the site a long time ago. Maybe. Who knows!

Things are still weird here regarding logins and security:

Recently, I've had to login again every day. It seems like the login cookie is not persisting.
Chrome frequently blocks me from entering the site with its standard "Site is unsafe" warning page. I have to click through the Advanced ...

There's a config.txt I recall where you can set some stuff but it's been years since I've done it and I no longer use Windows so I'm not sure how to do it now.

Multiple drives are not supported on Amiga, despite the game clearly recognizing the difference between unformatted disks, save disks and master disks.

Are you sure? Back in the day, I played DM on an Amiga 1000 with an external 3.5 inch drive: the DM disk went in DF0:, the internal drive, while ...

Nothing imminent, life pulls me in other directions for now.

Nice! I tried getting in touch with Kirk decades ago but the email address Doug gave me never worked, always bounced back. Good to see this info even if it's not very positive about DM2...

It's always good to see new projects like this. But as someone who's been on these forums for decades and seen many similar announcements, I doubt you'll be able to get anyone to make the graphics for your entire game for free.

Everybody here is too old for that with too many other ...

Happy New Year Cowsman! Good to see you again and with such a cool link too.

Yes, CRTs made everything look better back in the day. We had a few posts about it previously:
We don't remember DM properly
Making new games look like they're old

This link is sort of related too:
Dungeon Master 2 ...

Wow, that must have been a big job! Looks great now, much more useful and really helps to show the depth of content "at a glance". Fantastic job, Christophe!

On a different note, I'm seeing this error pop up infrequently recently. Looks like an intermittent issue with the certificate?

Screenshot ...

Games are of their time. If you "remake" DM from a modern perspective, it won't be DM. Even doing something as "simple" as updating the graphics immediately changes the sensibility of the game. I tried it, and it felt all wrong.

There's plenty of modern dungeon crawlers out there with better ...

Please tell me what I should improve, I'm open to good suggestions.


I'm not a fan of the AI art thumbnails used throughout. They don't really add anything useful, in fact I find them quite confusing and they kind of get in the way. Plus, theyre AI, so you know, not great and it kind of makes ...

Since they revamped the website it is much harder to find the downloads (or most of the things I'm actually trying to find. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? It was awesome for 25 years, why did they have to ruin it updating for updating sake just because it looked "dated"? The game ...

Yep, I remember discovering this by accident years ago. Such a clever little secret they hid there. I love how FTL hid logical actions like that.

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.

This was a really interesting insight, thanks for undertaking this interview. I especially liked the anecdote about Robin Williams going to the FTL offices to pick up a copy of DM when most of them were out at lunch!

I have noticed a few places in Dungeon Master that can be bypassed without really keeping a person from finishing the game.
The speedboots behind a number of fake walls is one.

Fun fact: If you could find all four speedboots and could prove it to FTL, they'd consider inviting you to be a beta ...

If I recall correctly there's a wall further south that opens when skeletons are on the plate.

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.