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8042
... Yup. That happens. I never thought of it as a bug, but it should be -- it's an artifact of how things are stored in the save file, and the fact that you...
merle
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Jun 2, 2007
7:53 pm
8043
... Nope. The only quality changes I've seen in any items are armour and weapons, from potion or trap effects. Merle...
merle
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Jun 2, 2007
7:54 pm
8044
... Sorry -- what I meant was that while RBs die and reappear, a place that started out as a village will always be a village. But once a RB site has become a...
merle
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Jun 2, 2007
7:56 pm
8045
... Hmm. That could be. Aside from the early game I tend to eschew those "travel 1000km to get this item for me" quests in favour of RB and mine quests, which...
merle
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Jun 2, 2007
7:59 pm
8046
... From: "merle" <merle-darklands@...> To: <darklands@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:56 AM Subject: [darklands] Re: Darklands...
Allan Mills
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Jun 5, 2007
4:40 am
8047
... I do the same, but that did cause a problem once when my armour got damaged by exactly that amount, and became the same as my reserve armour... I'm not...
Harry
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Jun 5, 2007
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8048
The RB keep doesn't turn directly into a village. First it is burned ruins (almost always, although one time a new RB appeared right when I got back out to the...
merle
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Jun 6, 2007
11:14 pm
8049
Hi folks, I'd like to know if it's possible to get a 3.5" disk set from you, since I'd like to have this game as much mint as possible (I mean, not a...
widarthemighty
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Jun 16, 2007
2:29 pm
8050
hello I am in Canada and have two sets of 3.5 disks and the boxes etc, but the disks are corrupted and have not had the time to see if i can fix them... i use...
Brian Brady
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Jun 16, 2007
5:07 pm
8051
FYI 3.5" disk sets appear semi regularly on Ebay. So if you're a collector, just keep an eye out and one will eventually appear. Greg. ... From:...
Greg Woodstock
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Jun 16, 2007
5:43 pm
8052
All right, just got a copy from ebay, from a canadian seller. Should I get corrupted disks? I think I read something about that here. Anyway, should that be...
widarthemighty
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Jun 24, 2007
6:38 pm
8053
... Widart, I think that as long as you own original disks it is not illegal to produce a backup for personal use. If the disks are corrupted I believe it is...
John
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Jun 24, 2007
7:02 pm
8054
Yes the RB castles are allways burnt but the ruins can be turned into a new RB castle. I have destroyed the same tower 3 times in a short time in one game....
Sami Rieppo
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Jun 27, 2007
8:01 am
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
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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
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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
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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
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