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8712
Checkout the last paragraph of Atari super-mod X900BattleApple's most recent response. It sorta validates what we've always dreamed of doing here in this...
Matt Wirkkala
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Feb 1, 2008
8:07 am
8713
Hello everybody, haven't been here in a couple months. Just lurking, as I probably will do once in a while for many years to come. I am mostly interested in...
sultitan
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Feb 3, 2008
3:32 pm
8714
Good to hear from you again, Sultitan! -mwirkk :) YBL2...
Matt Wirkkala
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Feb 4, 2008
1:46 am
8715
... Interesting -- I wonder if all those times I was desperately trying to find a dragon, wandering over and over every pixel, I may have been at the wrong...
merle
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Feb 4, 2008
10:37 pm
8716
... Yes, this is very important for players to know: If you run around for many months without a thing happening, your "dragon time" is either OVER or you are...
sultitan
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Feb 5, 2008
2:22 pm
8717
Looong time lurker. I heard about Darklands about a year before it came out - last century. ;) waited very patiently (most of the time) for it to arrive in the...
David
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Feb 6, 2008
6:00 pm
8718
This may already be known by members of this forum, but I couldn't find it when I was doing searches here. I finally found a fix for it in the DOSBox forums....
bootcloset
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Feb 7, 2008
8:40 pm
8719
I use the D.O.G. front end, so I went to the Memory tab, and DOG had turned off the XMS.... Gosh, I love front ends! :)...
John
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Feb 7, 2008
9:47 pm
8720
Hi everyone I played Darklands in the great "backwhen" days. Some months ago I was surfing through a game site (Classic Games) and found it at a very cheap ...
José Freitas
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Feb 18, 2008
10:22 pm
8721
Hi Jose, Try using DOSBox and a front end called D.O.G. (available from the DOSBox site) and setting the sound to Soundblaster Pro. Also find 'Install.exe' and...
John
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Feb 18, 2008
10:36 pm
8722
... Done!! Thanks, John. All is well. I've also consulted the DOSbox commands ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
José Freitas
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Feb 19, 2008
4:31 pm
8723
Hi, I was reading an FAQ that mentioned relics that can be donated to cathedrals for reputation as well as a few relics that can be weilded as weapons. Where...
hevey
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Feb 19, 2008
9:21 pm
8724
Saving merchant caravans in the wilderness is the best way. Greg. ... From: "hevey" <dhevey1@...> To: <darklands@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday,...
Greg Woodstock
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Feb 19, 2008
11:44 pm
8725
The way you get relics is from the type of mine mission were the dwarves are being forced out of their homes by some sort of infernal invasion. ... [Non-text...
Carl Howard
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Feb 20, 2008
3:42 pm
8726
No, I'm pretty sure there is always one or two at the templar fortress. It's been a while since I played but I'm pretty certain they are always in a specific...
Allan Mills
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Feb 28, 2008
4:13 am
8727
I was going to say the same thing that Allan did, but my memory is vague, and the cluebook did not mention relics there. I thought there were two or three to...
merle
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Feb 29, 2008
3:01 am
8728
... Not sure there's an ultimate. However, you can generate a very powerful alchemist if you are prepared to make sacrifices to his utility. I would go...
tristan_list
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Feb 29, 2008
5:18 pm
8729
Hi all, When I look at the saved games list (at the beginning of the game, where you can choose to start a new group, continue the story or delete a saved...
Rachel Kronick
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Mar 1, 2008
12:45 am
8730
... Do you have more than a hundred saved games in the SAVES folder? That might be the cause of the randomness. Once you get a few hundred it gets a bit...
merle
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Mar 1, 2008
7:32 pm
8731
There's Michael Petzold's Saved Game Sorter for Windows which might be of help to you managing overly large sets if saves: ...
Mwirkk at Eskimo North
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Mar 2, 2008
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8732
Yep, well... It's been what? 2 to 3 yrs since I last came here? After getting a new com and getting sick of the ridiculously lousy, yet very pretty looking...
foamy_pp
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Mar 8, 2008
2:46 am
8733
Can't remember to be honest, though I have a feeling that he disappears after a year? But if worst comes to worst, just strip him of all items and send him...
Greg Woodstock
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Mar 8, 2008
5:04 am
8734
... He does leave after some amount of time. You could also shack up in some inn where you make enough money to pay for room and board and just sit it out for...
merle
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Mar 8, 2008
2:13 pm
8735
Bah~ I shall just kill him off. Maybe, I shall sacrifice him to a bunch of witches. Mua ha ha ha ha.......
foamy_pp
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Mar 8, 2008
11:51 pm
8736
You can find relics in the mine quests. They are three types of mine quests (one of them as 3 or 4 variable (the enemies are different), another has 2 (2 paths...
sultitan
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Mar 12, 2008
5:34 am
8737
I played this game looong time ago so please enlight me - what was this Great Monastery quest? Is this the tampliere forthress? Handel ... From: "sultitan"...
Handel
bamamamu
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Mar 12, 2008
7:14 pm
8738
... this ... Yes, The Templars fortress, but it is called Great Monastery in Darklands. This and the Citadel are the two large missions, but the Great ...
sultitan
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Mar 12, 2008
9:29 pm
8739
I just now ran across this by accident: http://www.microprosesystems.com/company.htm This took me quite by surprise. I had not heard anything about it until ...
Matt Wirkkala
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Mar 21, 2008
9:00 am
8740
Looks like they acquired the name - not so sure about the software rights. And from the looks of things they don't plan to do anything software related. ...
Bob Hazlewood
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Mar 21, 2008
1:36 pm
8741
... looks of things they don't plan to do anything software related. Looks like they might do something software related -- from the bottom of their about ...
merle
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Mar 21, 2008
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