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- Hi guys 'n' gals in 17 Bit land,
- Its The A.P.H.I.D! here again...that stands for
-
- Anthony Paul Hancock Is Daft
- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
-
- but when it comes to Dungeon Master I am DEADly serious...seriously!!!
- Oh what the heck...nobody believes me so I'll continue....
-
- I have Dungeon Master [ as if you cuddunt guess! ] but I got fed up with
- having to use a separate disc for each saved level...I'm fussy about
- wastage and economy and things like that you see.
-
- Anyway, I decided to create directories for each saved level on ONE disc
- and do away with all this waste lark { and save money etc... } but I had
- to boot up the WorkBench and manipulate the DungeonSave disc with the CLI
- to get anywhere : I got fed up with this also !
-
- Then one day I had a brainwave! I waved back { I'm polite as well } and
- set to work on a bootable disc which would enable me to choose which level
- I wanted to play in and at the touch of a key would go ahead and copy the
- relevant saved_game file into the correct position.
-
- Thus this disc was born, raised, nurtured and has come into bloom. I am
- ready to release it into the public domain through you bootiful people
- but can you check that I'm not infringing any copyrights first please...?
-
- I read somewhere that the authors of the { brilliant } Dungeon Master
- wanted the players to get so excited that they would all start to exchange
- characters via disc { or whatever else you can exchange them on ! } so I
- thought I'd take this thought a stage or two further... well, here it be!
-
- I've recreated this disk (I prefer disc actually) with meatier
- characters so that I'd have a better chance in Chaos Strikes Back...
- I sat there till quite a few early mornings (just ask my wife !)
- clicking on that poor little rodent, so much that I've had to replace
- it with a brand spanking new Naksha creature! Did you know that the
- Commodore own-brand mouse can cost well over 40 quid !!!!!
- Oh, I think you do know don't you, ahem, er, um, yeah, well, er,
- Anyway, all that matters is that I have a working system...sheesh,
- don't I waffle eh ?!?!?!?!? Back to reality... er I mean business...
-
- I've used common commands to avoid the risk of spreading any viri and the
- keymap was created using the SETKEY utility on ST/Format coverdisc #11
- from May 1989 in case you are interested...
-
- The ViewILBM command I found on the January 1990 Amiga Format coverdisk
- number 6 { as well as the maps } if you want to check 'em out...
-
- I hope you can release this disc 'cos I've always wanted to have my name
- { NB NOT MY NAMESAKE } plastered everywhere...except perhaps the toilets
- in Arroods....
-
- You may notice that there are hints and tips hidden on the keymap. These
- are designed to help some of the nosier { or more desperate } Dungeoneers.
- I've left it up to them to decide what to do with the information...well
- you can't make it too easy for them can you....!
-
- Talking of tips...in the room with 9 pressure plates on level 2 just walk
- onto the first plate, step back off it and walk forwards onto all three
- plates in front and through the gates...simple eh? No sidestepping at all!
-
- Oh well, I s'pose I'll be going now...
-
- Do you like the colour scheme ?
-
- Is there any plan for DUNGEON MASTER III at all ???
-
- By the way...Eye Of The Beholder is over-rated... I want MORE hit points
- 'cos they keep going down quickly...
-
- Does anyone have any helpful hints for the Federation Of Free Traders ?
- I can make tons (or tonnes ?) and tons of money and have bought loads
- of meaty lasers and hyper-dimensional-galactic-space-warping-drives
- but flying is absolutely abysmal !!!!! It takes ages to get anywhere
- and I get bored waiting... And they didn't include the Blue Danube
- in the list of music......
-
- Well, I'll really be going now....
-
- Oh, first a bit of criticism... your new game 'FULL CONTACT' could do
- with a bit of amending! Can you tell me why it constantly keeps
- accessing the drive ( I only have a single floppy - fnarr fnarr )
- and hardly gives me time to pull out the disk ?!?!?!?!?
- And to top it all... when I do manage to remove the disk without
- ripping the drive heads off, the flipping disk light comes on
- and I DON'T LIKE IT OKAY.....!!!!
-
- By the way, you're speling iz atrowshuss...
-
- Okay its REALLY time to go now...............
-
- Byeeeeeee from Mr. Anthony Hancock 17Bit_5370 May 1991
- A.K.A The A.P.H.I.D!
-