Re: I'm progrsmming "Dungeon Master 3 - Chaos strikes back again"!!!

Darin Johnson wrote:

On Jan 30, 11:19 am, john....@xxxxxxxxxxx (John Lewis) wrote:
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I liked DM, but it was sort of boring in a way. It really didn't
break out of the "identical 10x10 blocks of stone" motif except
in one single room (where there were ominous scratches on
the stone). Better by far than Wizardry 1 or even Bard's Tale,
but it had more potential.

This was probably a concession to the platform. The whole game fit on a single sided 3.5" DD floppy and ran on an 8 mHz 68000: All the processing power of a 1o mHz '286! I think they may have used a SS 82 track or more sectors per track to get it up to 400k of storage. That and 512k of memory was all the floppy the original ST had.

Thanks to the poster of the DM Java info! I decided to try it out and worked flawlessly on my XP box.

I decided to try it on my W95 laptop and it took a while to get it going. Only version of Java that would install after downloading other 1.3 distributions multiple times was a ~5 meg file of 1.3.1_20. DM java itself was another 20 megs. Extra 25 megs of files, 10 years of OS evolution, 30X faster processor, 100X the memory, and it runs a lot slower then the original.

Rick
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