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- Subj: SUBMISSION: Belegost available
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- The Game of Belegost:
-
- - a cool text adventure game
- - inspired by Tolkien's work
- - nice scanned pictures
- - freeware
-
- OCSoftware just released the NEXTSTEP version of Belegost. The game
- of Belegost is cool text adventure originally written years ago by
- CYBEXLAB for ATARI ST. I've already ported this game for PSION
- Series 3/3a; now I've finished the NEXTSTEP port. The application
- is fairly big, as it contains a few nice truecolor scanned pictures
- (by John Howe and Ted Nasmith).
-
- * FROM THE STORY *
-
- >>The underground town of Belegost was built in the foot-hills of
- Ered Luin by the Naugrim folk (among people known as Dwarves) during
- the First Age.
-
- When the Dwarves were tunneling the domes and corridors of the new
- city, they discovered Alqualamir, one of the most precious gems of
- Middle Earth. The stone was not valued for its beauty as much as
- for its power to heal injuries inflicted by the forces of Darkness.
-
- The Dwarves lived in Belegost accumulating their wealth and adorning
- their city for centuries until the dawn of the Second Age brought
- Darkness as Sauron became the Lord of the Rings. One day, an awesome
- troop of Orcs stood at the gates of Belegost. The Dwarves bravely
- defended their city, but finally the tremendous enemy force
- prevailed...<<
-
- * PRICING *
-
- The application is freeware.
-
- * AVAILABILITY *
-
- Belegost is available at
-
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/games/Belegost*
-
- Supported architectures:
- NeXT, Intel, SPARC, HP
-
- Supported software:
- NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher (might work on older, untested)
-
- The application was tested on white hardware with 8-bit color. It
- is written with special care to be really portable, but you know
- - any code contain some bugs. I am particularly afraid there might
- be problems with readability of grayscale representations of the
- pictures. Anyway, let me please know how (or at least if) it works
- on your configuration.
-
- * ABOUT THE COMPANY *
-
- OCSoftware is a small private company in Prague, Czech Republic,
- specialized in NEXTSTEP and PSION software development. Although
- mainly focused to the vertical market with proprietary software packs,
- it had prepared a number of general applications as well, as
-
- - PSION NewEncoding Kit, which allows to use any code page on PSION
- Series3/3a/Workabout
- - PSION Software Localization Kit, which allows to localize Series3/3a
- to any language
- - NEXTSTEP NewEncoding Kit, which allows to use any code page with
- NEXTSTEP (developed with H.C.C., the premium driver writer)
- - NEXTSTEP FIDONet Message Editor
- - NEXTSTEP KeySwitch application to select wanted keyboard by one
- click
- - NEXTSTEP Czech spellchecker
- - NEXTSTEP Universal spellchecker, using ASCII file as dictionary
- - NEXTSTEP RTF Filter, converting RTFD to ASCII with numbered
- paragraphs and figures
- - PSION Ophir application, to supervise accounts
- - some games to attract users :)
-
- * FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT *
-
- OCSoftware
- Email: ocs@earn.cvut.cz
-
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