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8055
I've never seen a village turn back into a RB castle, whether burnt or not. I have seen villages recover from being burnt, though, turning back into villages...
merle
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Jul 3, 2007
6:45 pm
8056
Greetings, I've been lurking more than I should but my reasons are honest - my newest RPG is going to be released this weekend during Brazilian's XV Encontro...
Marcelo Paschoalin
fermmoylle
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Jul 6, 2007
12:53 pm
8057
Congratulations! That's cool. (Of course, I wish we enjoy an English copy. ;) I'm very glad you are happy with the results. Woohoo! Please do post linkage when...
quadkorex
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Jul 6, 2007
5:42 pm
8058
More than once people tried to convince me to write an English version... Maybe I'll do it, but translating 264 pages is never an easy task. If someone takes...
Marcelo Paschoalin
fermmoylle
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Jul 6, 2007
6:01 pm
8060
HI.. new user here.. I'm running w2k and have been unable to get Darklands to run. Is there a documented process? I've read a lot but only found the changes...
Brian
brianfell2002
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Jul 6, 2007
8:51 pm
8061
The best way is to use DosBox to run it. You can find DosBox by googling it. If you read the Darklands archives you will find lots of discussions on using...
Douglas Mawhinney
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Jul 6, 2007
8:59 pm
8062
... Download DOSBox and D-Fend and learn how to use them then play Darklands the way it would have been when it first came out on a perfect PC for it....
John
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Jul 6, 2007
9:00 pm
8063
In general, DosBox (easy to google) should be your best bet. The quick (and non-authoritative) answer AFAIK is: 1) Win2K doesn't have good builtin dos game...
quadkorex
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Jul 6, 2007
9:00 pm
8064
Hi all, I've been playing Darklands since '92 and just joined this group today. I ran into something interesting! I was playing last night and encountered a...
agronosky
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Jul 8, 2007
7:55 pm
8065
Andrew, I looked through the Clue Book and did not see thta dwarf mentioned by name. I am just speculating, but this might be a randomly set name (selected...
Matthew Wirkkala
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Jul 8, 2007
8:36 pm
8066
... I spent hours and hours and hours, in the previous millenium, trying to get Darklands to run in Windows 95OSR2. Only a couple of years ago did I get it to...
Peter Knutsen
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Jul 8, 2007
11:11 pm
8067
I found dosbox by google... it works great.... use a key drive with the game becasue dosbox does not like to load up hard drive files on W2k.... works great......
Brian Fell
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Jul 9, 2007
12:02 pm
8068
... In my analysis of the string tables in darkland.exe: 0x18862c: unknown array[ 36 ] of string (null-delimited) - Names of something? - "Alveig", "Gulveig",...
merle
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Jul 9, 2007
7:40 pm
8069
I believe i once encountered "Gulveig" but no Mimingus. Sounds like the right file. Brian merle <merle-darklands@...> wrote: ... In my analysis...
Brian Brady
nairbydarb
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Jul 11, 2007
1:35 pm
8070
... By loading pages do you mean the fade-in of menu screens in Darklands? This used to be quite slow in earlier versions of Dosbox but in the newest version...
Daniel Collins
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Jul 12, 2007
2:15 am
8071
My apologies for this Off-Topic post, but I thought the audience here might be interested... From TheOneRing.Net (TORn) web-site: New Online Gaming Laws in...
Matthew Wirkkala
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Jul 14, 2007
1:04 am
8072
I just got Darklands and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to create some characters... after which the game (or simply DOSBox) froze up on me, which...
flexbuster
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Jul 29, 2007
5:05 am
8073
Hi there! Good luck with Darklands to start off with - be ready for some fun gaming! :) As to the built in characters being overpowered I must admit I never ...
John
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Jul 29, 2007
10:02 am
8074
welcome to DL, a recurring favorite of mine since 1993. Play a lot of other games but keep coming back to DL. Would suggest you try the quick start team and...
Brian Brady
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Jul 29, 2007
5:19 pm
8075
Welcome :) I did a quick test and while I didn't exactly replicate the chars (it's very hard to reverse-engineer a character), I think I got pretty close, so I...
Harry
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Jul 30, 2007
11:26 am
8076
My son is 4, and he plays the game "Fate" at his biological father's place. I was thinking about how much i loved Darklands, and how open it was compared to...
Helen C Taylor
tailkinker42
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Jul 30, 2007
6:55 pm
8077
Welcome aboard and ask that Uncle if he has the original code hidden somewhere so it can be used in an update! :) For other titles like Darklands, you cannot...
John
uk_john2005
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Jul 30, 2007
9:53 pm
8078
Ok, it seems there is a misunderstanding here. Dwarf names are random like so many other names in Darklands (alchemists, etc, it would be a wonder to get a...
sultitan
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Jul 31, 2007
11:52 pm
8079
Apologies in advance for the length of this post. As prompted by Sultitan, here are all the dwarf names that the game can choose from. I also added dragon,...
Daniel Collins
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Aug 1, 2007
12:26 am
8080
Well, well, playing a few hours per week I've managed to reach year 1427. Planning to end the game by 1440 in Prag. My oldest character is 57 but we're all...
sultitan
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Aug 1, 2007
12:31 am
8081
Re the south of Basil site... played that area about ten years ago but i am pretty sure it is actually west of Basil. cheers brian. sultitan...
Brian Brady
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Aug 1, 2007
1:19 am
8082
Thanks very much, Daniel. But things are even more complex when each alchemist, or lord, or schultz, etc, have a personal name ! I'm always amazed at that...
sultitan
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Aug 1, 2007
4:24 am
8083
Among the many mistakes I make (I am not english, obviously), I made this rather ridiculous one: Maybe I'm just getting way more villages because dragons have ...
sultitan
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Aug 1, 2007
4:24 am
8084
Among the many mistakes I make (I am not english, obviously), I made this rather ridiculous one: Maybe I'm just getting way more villages because dragons have ...
sultitan
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Aug 1, 2007
4:27 am
8085
... Very cool! I've never gone beyond about twelve game years. I would be quite interested to see your saved game, now ... Are all the castles that are left...
merle
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Aug 2, 2007
10:12 pm
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