[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath - PC Port

[mike delyea]

Find a long corridor, wait for the walking death to find you then "A space
R" 5 , maybe 6 times, then MMMMM like a madman.  Then your heart beat turns
almost into a solid tone and the screen goes black, then when you can
finally see again, there's one of those stupid Knights there to "clunk"
finish you off.

,On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think a bit of the delay was designed to let you get more "A space R's"
> in.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:11 AM, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 11-12-23 09:38 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> 1. I don't remember the monsters being as difficult - or as fast - as on
>>> the original cartridge (you can slow the monsters down in the config,
>>> though)
>>>
>>
>> Some of the monsters are faster in the pc port because the pc can keep up
>> with the processing demands of the levels where the 6809 in the coco just
>> couldn't quite hack it. Thus, you'll see that the creatures move a bit
>> faster early on when there are dozens running around on a level but get
>> closer to the speed on the coco as the level is depopulated. There may also
>> be some timing differences.
>>
>>
>>  2. I also don't remember being able to "run outta breath" so easily,
>>> either (maybe I didn't move as much when I was a kid?)
>>>
>> There are some calculations that are corrected in the pc port. One of
>> them might have been related to item weights.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 3. The high-res mode needs to be extended to cover everything (the
>>> bottom text area of the screen is still original resolution)
>>>
>>> But it comes with the source code; I've actually got the 0.5.0 version
>>> (a patched version for Linux that includes some extensions not in the
>>> "official" 0.4.0 version for Linux).
>>>
>>> Anyhow - if you want to play around with it:
>>>
>>> http://mspencer.net/daggorath/**dodpcp.html<http://mspencer.net/daggorath/dodpcp.html>
>>>
>>> Patched 0.5.0 (sputnik) port - plus icons:
>>>
>>> http://demandred.dyndns.org/**dod/ <http://demandred.dyndns.org/dod/>
>>>
>>> If you have troubles getting it compiled under linux, make sure you have
>>> all the development sources installed (especially SDL); also, you might
>>> have to mod the Makefile to include the proper location of the SDL
>>> libraries (I had to do this for Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit; strangely, though, not
>>> for 10.04 LTS here at home).
>>>
>>> Anyway, happy holidays, and happy adventuring!
>>>
>>> -- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona
>>>
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