Re: Secret of the Silver Blades: Map Error in SSI's Clue Book

Posted on 2011-02-15, 16:11

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Finally finished Secret of the Silver Blades last weekend, and plan to install Pools of Darkness & transfer my SOTSB party soon. One question perhaps someone who's got old AD&D rulebooks can help with: One of my characters (a ranger) has a Long Sword vs. Giants, which I assume also counts as a magic …

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Re: What old games are still on your wants list?

Posted on 2011-02-06, 01:09

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I don't know how much of FeedingDragon's list he/she's still looking for, but (just in case anyone else is interested), I'm selling 2 Forgotten Realms CD-ROM compilations on eBay this week. One is the 2001 Gamefest compilation (with PDF documentation); the other is the 1997 Interplay Forgotten …

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Re: German ebay sellers and their strange behaviour....

Posted on 2011-02-06, 00:48

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I don't think it's just German eBay sellers who will bundle a bunch of things into 1 lot -- I do it myself, particularly when the component items in the lot have gone unsold as individual items at least once. If you really only want part of what's included in a lot, you should use "ask seller a …

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Secret of the Silver Blades: Map Error in SSI's Clue Book

Posted on 2010-09-11, 12:52

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I took a year's break from playing SSI's old "Gold Box" games (little RL things like sending my oldest off to college took priority for a while), but have now picked up where I had left off in "Secret of the Silver Blades." Anyway, I had completed the first 2 levels in the Mines and entered Level 3, …

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Re: Alright, Blood is on GOG.com now, the moment I have been waiting for!!!

Posted on 2010-04-27, 21:53

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We thought it was probably DOSBox in there; it's just that with the GOG.com copies, one doesn't have to load DOSBox first, then load the game; also, this way the AUTOEXEC.BAT (or whatever) is preconfigured to run the game full-screen & with the sound just right. An individual gamer could do all this …

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Re: Alright, Blood is on GOG.com now, the moment I have been waiting for!!!

Posted on 2010-04-27, 19:29

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I had never heard of GOG.com before, but my spouse just bought a downloadable copy of Master of Magic from them, and it works great, without any music glitches or having to load DOSBox first. It sounds like they work with game publishers to get worldwide licenses for old games (so they're NOT an " …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-08, 22:43

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Sorry about the rambling; just wanted to help as I'd been helped. 😊 I'll wait to post further questions/comments about SOTSB until I either get stuck or finish -- unless I spot a question someone else has that I think I can help with. OK?

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-08, 14:07

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3. Enlarge may or may not be effective. Due to some bug, probably, Enlarge didn't seem to do anything for my PCs. However, I was able to swap the Girdle of Storm Giant Strength among the characters, and the increased STR effect seemed to persist after the Girdle was unequipped. (I believe the STR …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-08, 13:53

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Now I've finished COTAB (again), this time completing the final battle against Tyranthraxus without help from the Dust of Disappearance. A few observations on that battle, for anyone else who may be working on Curse of the Azure Bonds: 1) If you've decided against tackling the Mulmaster Beholder …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-07, 02:32

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I did it! I beat the Mulmaster Beholder Corps! :happyhappy: I did use the Dust of Disappearance up to get through it, and it seemed to take about a zillion combat rounds (partly because I really wanted to avoid putting my characters in melee range of all those Beholders/Dark Elf Lords/Rakshasas/etc. …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-06, 03:22

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One more request for anyone with (legal, of course) access to other platform's versions of COTAB: I'd love to hear the intro music for Curse of the Azure Bonds! (YouTube video, anyone!) :wink: COTAB (MS-DOS version) w/Tandy sound has better sound effects than the PC speaker sound, but no music, …

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Re: Curse of the Azure Bonds -- Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle?

Posted on 2010-04-06, 03:06

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Well, I finally got back to Curse of the Azure Bonds (on a different computer, this one with Windows 7), and I'm retrying the Tower of Oxam. I hope to attempt the Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle again soon -- hopefully the victory-screen crash I experienced the last time was due to the old computer …

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Re: dark queen of krynn graphics messed up

Posted on 2010-01-24, 11:59

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I still have all of my SSI "Gold Box" cluebooks from back when the games were originally released; however, 2 DQK walkthroughs I found on the Internet were helpful supplements -- especially in identifying which encounters could be safely skipped and in providing specific advice for a few of the …

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Re: dark queen of krynn graphics messed up

Posted on 2010-01-24, 03:52

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I finally finished Dark Queen of Krynn -- for the first time ever, yet! :happyhappy: (I had played it twice "back in the day," over 15 years ago, but kept getting whupped by the time I got to the Abyss -- not to mention I was usually suffering from "Dragonlance overload" by then, after already …

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Re: VISTA 64bit, Pools of Radiance Save Issues: Please Advise

Posted on 2010-01-10, 04:32

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Tempus2, you are a saint! :happyhappy: (Or, to put it in "Gold Box" game terms: "Congratulations! The party has earned experience!") I copied my original DQKCFG file to my Documents folder, copy-and-replaced the alternate DQKCFG file you provided the link for into the DQK/DISK1 directory, and voila! …

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Re: VISTA 64bit, Pools of Radiance Save Issues: Please Advise

Posted on 2010-01-10, 01:03

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Rats! :dead: So DQK can't be tricked into thinking the save game directory is a floppy drive? Well, I'll at least reinstall the game for now, and spend some time 3-hole punching the printout I made of the rulebook/Adventurer's Journal (plus a couple of walkthroughs I found online). I still have my …

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Re: VISTA 64bit, Pools of Radiance Save Issues: Please Advise

Posted on 2010-01-10, 00:54

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Someone at Bit O' Moander posted a screenshot of a DOS configuration screen for DQK -- but it seems to only be accessible if one's installing the game from floppy discs (and, although I do happen to also have the floppy-disc version of DQK, I no longer have a floppy drive on any of the computers in …

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Re: VISTA 64bit, Pools of Radiance Save Issues: Please Advise

Posted on 2010-01-09, 20:36

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I can see I'm also going to have to do some finagling to get my Death Knights of Krynn characters transferred into Dark Queen of Krynn. When going from Champions of Krynn to Death Knights of Krynn, I was prompted to specify save paths for both games when I ran DKK the first time, and the default …

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Re: VISTA 64bit, Pools of Radiance Save Issues: Please Advise

Posted on 2010-01-09, 19:54

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I figured out the stunning effect by having my paladin use Olin's Quarterstaff in combat occasionally (usually against undead, though -- so although it said they're "stunned," I'm not entirely sure it really stunned undead enemies, too). Just installed Dark Queen of Krynn from the Wizardworks CD-ROM …

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Re: dark queen of krynn graphics messed up

Posted on 2010-01-09, 19:40

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Well, I did learn how to mount a CD-ROM drive within DOSBox, and I've played through both Champions of Krynn and Death Knights of Krynn (installed from the Wizardworks CD-ROM within DOSBox). I've just also installed Dark Queen of Krynn. The good news is that the VGA graphics installed without a …

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