Dungeon Master Forum

Hi Jan, Thanks! :-) However: In Poland we use to say "lack of knowledge is not courage, it is idiocy"... Really, only now I start discovering the sense and idea of "war cry", "calm", "brandish", etc. - the "soft" weapons in DM & CSB. What is &quo...

Hi Paul, You are right, I had the wrong file. Now I took the right file - 848,5 KB, right? - and the error is just: Speicherzugriffsfehler It works on your Linux independently from the directory? What about the access rights (of user and associated to the file)? When the game is executed, to which d...

Hi Jan, thanks for the advice about NOT stepping in the room with raves! Unfortunately the only vorpal blade I usually find is BEHIND this room - in the ghost/fireball room in the niche... I sometimes use some sticks to fight non-materials. The problem with this part of the dungeon is, that actually...

Maybe this will help you too: - no matter from what directory I tried to start CSBwin (of course, with dungeon.dat and other .dat files in the same directory): /usr/games, /usr/local/games , /usr/share/, /home/lukasz/Desktop/CSBwin/ etc - it was always the same error. So it is not a access-rights er...

OK, I managed to copy the following files to the following directory /usr/local/games The files there are: "CSBwin" (the SDL 2.0 version) "dungeon.dat" "graphics.dat" "mini.dat" "csbwin.sh" When I try to execute CSBwin - as root - from command I get ...

Sorry Paul, I oversaw the point with dungeon.dat and other files... But now there is some Chaos (yes!) with my files, versions, downloads, configs, direcotries there. Could you write a short How-To-Install-instruction please, for people like me (using Linux, just as a desktop users, with basic comma...

Hi, I run Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. When I try to run CSB (SDL 1.2) from command line, I get a error message like "Memory access error" (the original is in German). When I run CSB SDL 2.0, the error is: "Error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open s...

Hi Paul, I downloaded both files, http://www.dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/CSB%20...%2051202-1230 http://www.dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/CSB%20...%2051201-2133 and... dont know what to do now :-) I am a Linux-user for more than 2 years, but no IT-expert. When I try to "run" the files, nothing happ...

Hi Paul,

It will be a pleasure to try it out directly unter Linux. Any comments or questions I will post under another topic here ("CSB under Linux"), ok?

Hi, The "antman"-puzzle: I suppose you mean the corridor where one can see thru the wall, and pressing the green button kill the water elementals and raves behind. I tried this as well. First, after several "shots" it stopped working. Then I looked thru the wall: there were still...

@ Paul: Wow, never heard of that "boulder"-trick!!! So far I have finished three ways starting from DDD, as I wrote in another topic the DAIN way was the hardest: Especially ti get thru the "ghost room" with new and new raves, then thru to the couatl-room!... A real "managem...

Thanks all 3 of you! First, sorry for my own descriptions for some creatures and places: It comes from the first time playing DM & CSB on my Atari ST, when I could not know how to call all monsters, there were no websites or forums describing them, and you cannot get the name by taking them and ...

Hi, It happened to me once before playing CSB, now again: I cannot enter the DAIN area with flying snakes, water elementals, a lot of pits etc. - and the ruby key. Every time I enter into the blue fog and choose DAIN, I end up either before the "crossing of oitus" (how I call it), or befor...

Thanks, The worm-flood-room: It was even very hard with 2 champions (combination of prepared ful bombs, swords, and magic boxes). But, as far as I remember - after killing all worms (and standing in their "birth"-place), I just returned back (climbing down nearby where the demons used to b...

After finishing DM with 2 Champions (Elija & Gothmog, reincarnated), and then with those two finishing CSB, now I am trying doing this with only one champion - Gothmog. After 10 days I finished DM. I forgot to add, that in DM I have always one important rule: never use a spell before I learned i...

I am confused or I will have to start the whole game again... Where is the furnace? Is it the thing with pipes in cavern-level 1, close to the ladder (1st cavern level under lowest dungeon level). I cannot find anything looking like furnace on cavern-level 2 (the one with the squeezing machine and w...

Thanks. By now I activated a pumping machine at the end of level 2 (but the display on level 1 of castle still is low... - maybe I have to find a place to open water...), and decided to continue going up the castle. As you say, I discovered that there are ladder-shortcuts downstairs, so my former qu...

I have a "strategic" question, please do not tell me too much about any riddle-solutions etc. I am now at the end of level 2 (castle), and am not sure whether - go back to the caverns to fuel with pyro and light the furnace - or go up, open water, and later light furnace. - or it is not im...

You are right, Ameena - maybe I should just remember the name of the game!... Espacially since after Paul's hint there was some "chaos" in favour for me: without entering the room with the many "weaker" dragons and fake walls on level 3 (31, 23), where the trigger for the rock-pi...

Thanks, at least now I can stop searching (and falling thru numerous pits...) for an alternative solution!... But that riddle is really too complicated in my opinion (or: for me). All my respect for all the people who found it out without any hints or looking into the code (or drinking beer with the...

Hi, After few weeks I finally got 3 corbums (the north, the west and the south). Now I am stuck at the DDD on level 2, cannot pass the pit which I assume should lead me to the 4th, east-corbum. Furthermore, I cannot find any alternative way (like falling from upper levels or being teleported) to the...

I am playing CSB for the first time, and am not sure what is the best way to deal with the abilities of my champions. The question is, like in DM, whether to resurrect, reincarnate or import the champions. Reincarnation means lower starting abilities but faster learning, while resurrection higher ab...

Thank you all - it was my lack of ... whatever. It really goes as under the original Atari ST: 1. Creating a party in prison, saving game (A, B, C, D). 2. Quit CSB 3. Open CSB again, then press "UTILITY" - and choose the previously saved game. The progam converts a "Prison"-SAVEG...

Hi Paul,

so far I managed to run ChaosStrikesBack under Linux with WINE-Emulator, and it works.
Now I saved one game and have one file named "dungeon.dat" - and will try to copy it into my Linux-Directory and then start the game.
Any success will be reported...

I didnt thought it CSB would be that hard! I have choosen 4 champions, made a map of the Prison, by clicking on every wall found even the two hidden gangways - but no exit to any further level!!! The two ways behind the fake walls just lead to a room with either rockpiles or mummies, but in both cas...

Hallo, I have just finished Dungeon Master (using it in a Windows-7-Virtual-Machine), and now I would like to try Chaos Strikes Back. Since my host operating system is Linux (Linux Mint 17 Qiana), so more or less Ubuntu, I decided to download & install CSB directly under Linux. Now I have downlo...

Hi, During my walk thru the dungeons I collected a lot of stuff I dont really know how to use properly. These are magical items like wand, teowand, yew staff, vorpal blade etc. I realize, that the magical functions can only be used by guy with some mana experience - that is logical. -But sometimes I...

Hi, @ Ameena: I did not know the level 5 is not necessary - on the other hand, there is enough water and food nearby (screamer-generator in level 4), so it was a good training for my skills!... But these were really NASTY, especially in the north-west area where is a generator... So I will not need ...

Now I am in level 4 and have a bad time with fighting couatls (flying snakes) without FUL IR - they are really fast, too fast for poison cloud or any door-trick!... The one I killed was a combination of some door-slams, magical-box & hits, and a lot of ninja-combat (throwing or shooting with bow...

I am now trying the following in Dungeon Master: With reincarnated heroes to use only the spells which my company learned thru notes on the way. So far it es not so easy, I reached end of level 3 (4 x magenta worm generator!) without using FUL IR (firebombs) once!... Fortunately on my way there was ...