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5217
I installed Darklands from the CD and wrote down everyhing I did. I uploaded that file to the 'Files' area: (/Help and HowTo's/A Guide- How to install...
quadkorex
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Jan 1, 2004
7:06 pm
5218
... Excellent! Many thanks. If you find the howto works for you, please post; this would be a great resource to put into the FAQ as well... Merle...
merle
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Jan 1, 2004
7:35 pm
5219
Hello and Happy New Year to all!!! If I remember correctly there was a previous post to remove the Read Only properties from the Darklands files in the hard...
calandryl018
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Jan 2, 2004
9:55 am
5220
... yes indeedy, mainly in marshy areas, so anywhere in the north there's that possibility - fortunately it doesn't happen very often - which is lucky, as the...
Quick Mary-Lou - Lond...
mlquk
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Jan 5, 2004
9:30 am
5221
When Darklands was new, presumably everybody knew abou the "Beer Glitch". Boy was I ever surprised to stumble upon it! After routing the forces of darkness at...
drinking_leprechaun
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Jan 7, 2004
9:08 pm
5222
Very cool, Ron! I've never heard of this before. Do you have a saved game as a demo we could play with? -MLW :)...
Matthew L. Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Jan 7, 2004
10:52 pm
5223
So far it looks like the added security measures (ie. requiring manual verification of random text in graphic form) implemented by Yahoo! for screening new...
Matthew L. Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Jan 7, 2004
11:57 pm
5224
FYI: We have been comfortably over the 450 member count for awhile now -- currently sitting at 461. Maybe we might be well over 500 by the end of this year? ...
Matthew L. Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Jan 8, 2004
12:32 am
5225
Hey Gang, I am forging ahead on the character gen side of things, and have put aside my issues with the map for the moment (haven't received any answers on my...
Angus Grant
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Jan 8, 2004
4:51 am
5226
... Sorry about that; I procrastinated and then forgot. If I recall your question correctly, you wanted to know if we could further decode the map file to get...
quadkorex
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Jan 8, 2004
7:12 am
5227
okey dokey. I think it is time for me to take some screen shots of Darklands and try and form some patterns. hmm, time to fry my brain.. :-) Will also have a...
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hondavtr250
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Jan 8, 2004
7:42 am
5228
... Welcome, Quadkorex....
Michel Boucher
alsandor
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Jan 8, 2004
3:09 pm
5229
... Ha! A great use of the standard "save and restore" glitch. The same trick can give you useful results in a number of places. Want to raise local rep at a...
merle
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Jan 8, 2004
8:39 pm
5230
... If you want, the "file format" pages I worked on were xsl'd from a base xml structure -- and I made sure to give every data element a unique label which...
merle
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Jan 8, 2004
8:44 pm
5231
... Thanks, all! I am really glad this group exists and happy to be able to serve. Quadko...
quadkorex
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Jan 8, 2004
9:49 pm
5232
Have decided to put fonts on the back-burner for a bit. As far as game play goes, fairly insignificant. Am now up to char creation. Have defined my xml schema...
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hondavtr250
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Jan 11, 2004
11:24 pm
5233
I went and checked out those files on darklands_01, and they are a cd image for the actual game, not a music cd. Of course, you'd have to be able to burn it...
macadamia85
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Jan 12, 2004
3:58 am
5235
... Y'know, I would *swear* that I've seen that information somewhere before, possibly in print. If I find it around here *somewhere* <G> I'll scan it and...
MultiSteveB@...
lordofthetiles
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Jan 12, 2004
6:26 am
5236
I am going to look at my Darklands download directory before I start doing it all myself. I know I have some Excel files from the files section which has Saint...
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hondavtr250
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Jan 12, 2004
7:06 am
5237
When people sign up for this group they should receive a welcome message that explicitly asks that URLs to illegal downloads NOT be posted in this group (see...
Matt Wirkkala
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Jan 12, 2004
7:55 am
5238
... Hey Matt, That email address still kosher? R Friends don't let friends use IncrediMail....
Robert Beveridge
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Jan 12, 2004
1:26 pm
5239
... <mailto:mwirkk@...> ). ... [mwirkk] ..."Yes", if you are referring to my Eskimo North account cited by Michel in the group 'Welcome' message. This...
Matt Wirkkala
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Jan 12, 2004
8:14 pm
5240
HI ALL, I tried the above on my xp pro system as well to no avail. I'm running pIII 667, 128 sdram, 10G hdd, nvidia riva II tnt 64, plus 52x cd/dvd-rom, and...
ilshimjunsa
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Jan 13, 2004
2:12 pm
5241
You could try running it using the program Dosbox. I managed to run Darklands just fine using it, the only catch is that since it's emulating a PC it can run a...
Allan Mills
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Jan 13, 2004
9:42 pm
5242
Hi guys! Darklands fan since just about the time the game came out here. I have two versions of Darklands - one is a copy that was created by diskettes once...
Jeremy
arideth
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Jan 14, 2004
2:48 am
5243
Ok, look under the Windows directory where XP is installed. There will be a file called _default which has the MSDOS icon. Right click on this, choose...
Allan Mills
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Jan 14, 2004
5:11 am
5244
Sometimes it is possible to add points to skills, BEFORE choosing an occupation. (That's skills, not attibutes.) Presumably, veteran Darkland players know...
drinking_leprechaun
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Jan 14, 2004
7:48 pm
5245
"Fighting DRAGONS can be expensive and inconvenient." :) Even with some combination of Firewall, Hardarmor, and the proper Saintly blessings, armor routinely...
drinking_leprechaun
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Jan 14, 2004
7:50 pm
5246
Exhaustively, yet judiciously applying Merle's great "Save & Reload Caravan Rescue" suggestion, to the "Going through the Tent & Wagon Screen" of the...
drinking_leprechaun
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Jan 14, 2004
7:55 pm
5247
... Definitely. Mines, too -- I really hate those traps. In the mines I usually don some ~q30 armour from the early game (before I can get to or afford better...
merle
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Jan 14, 2004
11:30 pm
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