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4704
Well I found out this will not work...Can not change hardware settings. I was able to get my drive to read disk one but could only copy the darkland.001 file. ...
Phydoux999
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Jun 1, 2003
9:25 am
4705
As long as you run the INSTALL.EXE file again to reconfigure sound, yes, zipping the entire directory and dumping it on a new PC will work. Corrupt files...
Greg Woodstock
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Jun 1, 2003
1:19 pm
4706
... wrong) that ... - Hiya Greg and Company, Thx for the reply, Greg. :) - So, the only way to counter enemy magic is (1) saints (2) potions ? - Is there...
dugu09s
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Jun 1, 2003
3:02 pm
4707
Sorry for the porn spam several days ago, and for not replying to anyone recently. It's been reported and I'll delete it from the archives once someone at...
merle
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Jun 1, 2003
11:43 pm
4708
... Yes, you can do that. Might be easier just to zip it up (spanning floppies) rather than moving HDs around? Depends on how nice your case is. ;-) And as...
merle
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Jun 1, 2003
11:48 pm
4709
... I think the money is permanent, but the other two probably aren't. Otherwise just pray to the "raise virtue" saint over and over to max out your virtue!...
merle
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Jun 1, 2003
11:58 pm
4710
So the hint book says that each time you successfully create a Transformation potion, the party gains a florin! I wonder if this was taken into account in the...
merle
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Jun 1, 2003
11:58 pm
4711
... moving HDs around? Depends on how nice your case is. ;-) ... from the HD to reconfigure hardware... ... has an uncorrupt floppy of that size/version, and...
Phydoux999
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Jun 2, 2003
12:00 am
4712
... your virtue! ;-) For the reputation one you probably won't get the popup message in the character box saying "local rep lowered from 31 to 10"... but I've...
Greg Woodstock
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Jun 2, 2003
1:45 am
4713
... Ah! I hadn't known that. That's very cool! I never do take enough advantage of saints... I have a hard time keeping track of them, and hate reading...
merle
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Jun 2, 2003
2:13 am
4714
... Hmmmm. This, theoretically, would not be overly difficult to do. But i don't know what format such a database could take. just a thought, jerry...
Deth B0y
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Jun 2, 2003
3:47 am
4715
There's a shockwave tool that sort of does that, although not completely. You can look for a single thing you want assistance in, but not a combination of...
Fleisch
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Jun 2, 2003
3:57 am
4716
... sadly no, only works when you invoke it - similar to escaping from the wild hunt, or walking across the water ... Mary-Lou...
Quick, Mary-Lou (Lond...
mlquk
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Jun 2, 2003
9:57 am
4717
Hiya folks, Thx to everyone who answered and replied to "Properties of Prayers in Darklands." - The best way to use a saint is to COPY/PASTE them into an empty...
dugu09s
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Jun 2, 2003
3:40 pm
4718
Hiya folks, Dosbox updated to .58, find it here. :) - http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1...
dugu09s
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Jun 2, 2003
3:55 pm
4719
... [mwirkk] Oooops! Dang! I deleted the message off of the board before I read this. (But I still have it in my inbox.) 'Sorry. I could send them a copy......
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Jun 2, 2003
9:23 pm
4720
... No prob. If they're running a decent house, the posting should still be in their database, just with a 'deleted' flag. ... Yep. I figured if they were...
merle
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Jun 2, 2003
11:01 pm
4721
... I was thinking of just a plain ol' spreadsheet. Columns of: name, virtue, special, str, end, agl, ... (all skills and virtues). "special" would include...
merle
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Jun 2, 2003
11:03 pm
4722
Greetings all! I have finished the first version my .PIC image file converter. (At long last! <grin>) It will convert Darklands PIC images to Windows BMP files...
quadkorex
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Jun 3, 2003
3:07 am
4723
... you should do what i did: get a second box for stuff like that, and then use the primary for gaming and the secondary for information holding (when you...
Deth B0y
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Jun 3, 2003
4:13 am
4724
... Congrats! Sounds most excellent. Are you willing to create an API-ish version? I'm thinking of something that accepts a .pic filename (and, I suppose, a...
merle
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Jun 3, 2003
6:01 am
4725
... Ah, I do have several boxes, and a KVM switch (although my wife commandeered it for her freelance work). I keep meaning to make my current machine into...
merle
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Jun 3, 2003
6:05 am
4726
... *nods* yes, very much so. Although the most important thing to me is the massiveness, and the exploration aspects. Also muds give me a good chance to...
Deth B0y
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Jun 3, 2003
6:50 am
4727
... wrote: <snip> ... I plan to release the source so anything is possible... :) I would be happy to release a dll version too, if that is more flexible then ...
quadkorex
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Jun 4, 2003
4:39 am
4728
Is it me or is the first few months of the game spent hunting bragarts in your starting town??? Does anyone else have any starting pointers???...
Phydoux999
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Jun 5, 2003
5:35 am
4729
Without cheating, yes I have spent the first few months hunting brigands and bandits and all sorts of other street miscreants in town. I have found that the...
Anthony Galasso
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Jun 5, 2003
1:15 pm
4730
... [mwirkk] Tony's right. So, "NO", it's not just you. What else would you expect?... You don't have to stay in that town. You can venture out. Nothing's ...
Matt Wirkkala
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Jun 5, 2003
3:44 pm
4731
Aargh, wrote up huge reply and accidentally Alt-F4'd the wrong window. Feh. Will try to reconstruct... ... I agree with Tony and Matt, that's how it usually...
merle
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Jun 5, 2003
7:51 pm
4732
... Code's probably fine... and you're right, I just need read, not write. No idea if I want a raw HBITMAP, CBitmap, or TBitmap. Currently I have the Borland...
merle
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Jun 5, 2003
8:06 pm
4733
... I have a distinctly low-tech approach to this - I simply extracted the list of saints from the manual on the CD into a text document and printed it out, as...
Jeremy
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Jun 5, 2003
11:08 pm
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