The lo-tech way to do it would be to make a simple batch job (e.g. "rundl.bat") placed on your desktop with lines something like the following: dosdrv d: cd...
I tried this on my pre-RC3 installation of .NET Server (same code-base as XP) and found that I was 1KB short on conventional memory, so I had to start dosdrv...
Hi all! I'm thinking about a remake of darklands too, with new graphics and wider gameplay. And I'd like to write me some advices and ideas about many things. ...
Tom Cat
psicho@...
Feb 1, 2002 12:19 pm
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... I don't think first person views would work if you had a party of characters... at least it would seem kind of strange. Isometric still seems to be the...
I've been poking around in the "msgfiles" file. It's basically another .cat file, containing a heaping load of .msg files -- some used, some not used. Does...
Firstly, for the n00bz, DL was supposed to be modularly expandable. That is, more scenarios could be added on later. (The Hundred-Years war, War of the Roses,...
... I'm just wondering how the game knows not to display the "5", "6", and "7". Just the fact that it goes 0a 15, with no 14 between it? Seems kind of an odd...
... party of characters... at least it would seem kind of strange. Isometric still seems to be the way to go for groups of characters. Yes, You are right, I...
Tom Cat
psicho@...
Feb 1, 2002 11:01 pm
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... It's called 3d. ... It's doubtful even legendary heros would be allowed to lead armies. You have to be in the right circles, and have the right birth....
The Fool
kneem@...
Feb 2, 2002 1:22 am
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... I have never seen any of these outcomes before. Why dont any of these ever occur? However I have experienced the refusal of a room at the inn. I found...
... True. I guess I see the crusades as being better suited for a strategy game than an rpg (although strictly speaking it would still be an rpg.. but you...
... IIRC in the high difficulty mode some options don't show up if you can't use them instead of being greyed out. For example in the type of dragon ...
... The data files are there, but they aren't linked in -- presumably they were buggy or incomplete (or both), and they ran into the deadline. Given the sheer...
... There are three common ways to do isometric, but I only remember two of them. 1) 2-D tiles and sprites rendered to look 3-D or 2) full 3-D with a fixed...
... with a ... Final Fantasy Tactics is 3d Isometric, and it allows rotating (and zooming)....
The Fool
kneem@...
Feb 2, 2002 8:16 pm
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replies inline... ... [MWIRKK] There was a CRPG that came out about the same time (of just after) as Arena: The Elder Scrolls that was a 1st-person 4-character...
HOW DO I INSTALL A MOUSE DRIVER ON DL??? PLEASE HELP AND I WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE! The mouse doesn't work. The lines of my config.sys and autoexec.bat say the...
... Don't shout. goto logitec,com and find their mouse drivers. There should be a dos driver and a program called cloaking.exe. put these in the...
The Fool
kneem@...
Feb 3, 2002 1:38 am
3443
... Please don't shout...ever. ... You don't have a driver loaded in your autoexec.bat; if you had ever run DOS, you'd see that right away. I never had a...
... Found it: it's the old "mem.log" file. The second column seems to be the name of the current .msg file (or "full up" -- not sure what that means). ...
Hi! I apologize to disturb You with this f***ing thing,but on the universitiy the a*****e teacher gave us a work to find out what the non-hungarians think...
Tom Cat
psicho@...
Feb 4, 2002 9:27 pm
3446
FYI: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are a couple of Clue Books up for auction on eBay. Check it out!... ...
I will be out of the office until 8am thursday, the 7th of February. I will respond to your messages then. Thanks =>) Bob K...
Bob Kaufman
bobk@...
Feb 5, 2002 7:38 am
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Hey Bob, (no! not the drinking game) your Out Of Office auto response was going auto-nuttso! We got 7 consecutive OOF's at 2 minute intervals (I deleted 6...
... Raises a good point though Matt, when I'm out of the office, I leave auto-reply on, how does that affect Darklands (and other) message lists ?? - ...
... As far as I remember, Mary-Lou, we've only had this problem once or twice and youze wasn't one of them. I suspect that intelligent mailers know when to...
