Dungeon Master Forum

You are quite right. I learned about poison clouds while watching Guillaume Basttard's record-setting speed recordings. Since I wrote the previous note I also discovered that the clouds are very helpful in getting a monster to retreat. For example, if I get cornered by two dogs (whatever they are ca...

<r>In the Atari CSB all the text is kept, as you say, one string after<br/> the other.<br/> <br/> However, There is only one array of indexes into these strings.<br/> So you should be able to move the strings around as you choose<br/> and fix the index array. The maximum index is 13 bits long and it...

I never saw this on the ST or on the PC. It sounds as if the timers got corrupted. In CSB there is a binary tree of timer entries. An entry out of its proper place could cause the process to get stuck. Everything that normally moves would stop moving. Off topic....... This tree is the only thing in ...

So you wanted to see the fireballs generated when you throw something other than Corbum into the FulYa Pit? But you always got toasted? Try this......On the Atari version or CSB for Windows. Stand in front of the FulYa Pit. Slide one step to your right. If you now turn left and throw something acros...

Quantum mechanics guarantees that we are all chasing integers
at all times. Even when chasing girls. (or boys)

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

You do not run it in full screen mode. Run it double size and set your video to 640 x 480. That is as close as you will get. The symbolics are available if you would like to enhance the program for full screen mode. It is compatible with the Atari and emulated Atari CSB. It is compatible with DMute ...

Thanks much for the MIDIs. They are much better without the game.

Sorry. I played the game but I was not too happy with it. I have the
MIDIs playing in the background while I do my other work. Neat!

PAul

The machine language looks very much like it was compiled with a simple C compiler. Very little optimization. But it might have been Pascal or some other language. Only very small parts were coded in assembly. Mostly the graphics and a few lines of interrupt processing. The things they coded in asse...

I found the problem with the damage numbers having the
wrong background color. There will be no release for quite
a while unless something more significant gets fixed.

PAul

Version 4.2 has an 'Attack Trace' mode that, along with the source code, the ASCII dump, and some playing experience, will help you figure out what is happening when you 'Cleave' or 'Stab', or whatever. If you make sense of some of it, please help by inserting comments and/or renaming variables to m...

I found the error. When computing the correction, I was supposed to divide by eight. I multiplied by eight. Then the minimum came into effect. And everything got set to about 30. The fix will be in the next release but that may not be for a while. If you want this right away, write to me and I will ...

New record set..... Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 11 hours, 49 minutes , 20 seconds Guillaume Bastard (Plague) 11 hours, 7 seconds Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 8 hours, 20 minutes, 11 seconds Guillaume Bastard (Petal) 5 hours, 7 minutes, 8 seconds Paul Stevens (Buzzzz) 4 hours, 36 minutes, 7 seconds That is 4-1/...

I just got out the Atari version and played it on an emulator. It seems that you are right. CSB for Windows does make the numbers too small. Hmmmm. I suppose I should try to fix this. But it messes up the speed playing competition. Those low numbers make getting started very difficult and those are ...

I have posted the other three 'movies'. You can find them at:

www.geocities.com/stevens_madison

in the binaries area. Filenames are:

CSBMovie2.zip
CSBMovie3.zip
CSBMovie4.zip

Each is about one-half megabyte.

PAul

I will look into the backgroud color problem. ----------- The original movie is on the DM Encyclopaedia http://dmwebdownload.free.fr/CSBMovie.zip The other three have not been posted because you are the first to ask. Tomorrow I will get the other three posted and tell you where they are. REMEMBER !!...

New record. Pretty amazing

Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 11 hours, 49 minutes , 20 seconds
Guillaume Bastard (Plague) 11 hours, 7 seconds
Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 8 hours, 20 minutes, 11 seconds
Guillaume Bastard (Petal) 5 hours, 7 minutes, 8 seconds

Thanks for writing. Glad you like it.

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

Guillaume Bastard <gb_sphenx@hotmail.com> and I have been competing to see who can play a game of CSB the fastest.. The records so far: Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 11 hours, 49 minutes , 20 seconds Guillaume Bastard (Plague) 11 hours, 7 seconds Paul Stevens (Toadrot) 8 hours, 20 minutes, 11 seconds A rec...

If you can read C-code, get the source for CSB for windows
(from the DM Encyclopaedia site in the clones area).
Look at the rather short function named AdjustSkills.
They tell me that Dungeon Master and CSB use the same code
for most of this stuff.

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

Well the code survived from DM. I had not translated it because it
was never used. Now it seems to work. You can get rid of Lord Chaos.

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

In CSB the cursed objects caused your Luck to decrease. In fact, I believe that they could cause the Luck to go negative and appear to be very large positive numbers. This is one of the things I fixed in the CSB for Windows. DJARCUS' program named CSBwin++.exe has a Cheat option called 'Show Luck' t...

My apologies to the clever people who created this game. The code that flashes the damage to each character is not only clean, it is straightforward and understandable. I made a very obvious omission in the translation. Version 4 will have the fix. A week, perhaps. Unless someone can find some other...

Be careful adding to bytes. Almost every byte in the .DAT file has more than
one field.

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

In the source, in file Code11f52.cpp there is a function named 'CheckMissileEncounter'. You might want to look. That seems to be where the computation is done. These things are not simple. If nobody answers your question, I will look at this code for a couple hours to see what I can determine. It ai...

As I said, I will be happy to help with your efforts.
Checking menu items is certainly easy.
Write me: I failed in my attempt to write you.

prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

Thanks for the clarification about the damage display. I am not at all surprised. The "Flash" code is not too clean. I will see what I can do. The config.txt file contains the keystroke translations. Perhaps I can add a mode that prints these as the game is played to aid in debugging. PAul

I think I have fixed the problem with the icons appearing for characters after canceling their selection. Version 4 will be released in a few weeks. I selected Toadrot, resurected him, and immediately threw a 4-level fireball at his empty portrait. His health went from 250 to 25. After 30 minutes of...

I don't hink you understand my concern about the false wall.
When I am inside the wall I am told that there are other false
wall to my east and to my west.

09(25,21) is a false wall but 09(24,21) and 09(26,21) are solid
rock.

PAul

Thanks. The prison never concerned me much.
But I will look into these problems.

PAul
prsteven@facstaff.wisc.edu

You needn't get through this wall to avoid becoming toast. Before entering and taking the gem, close the first wooden door (the one nearest the source of the fireballs). Take the gem and run back to the door, which will absorb the first fireball. Then simply time your movements back to the stairway ...