tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post1076462146590541844..comments2024-03-29T02:34:55.592-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Game 265: The Kingdom of Krell (1987)CRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-74092172871831240152018-01-14T21:20:22.675-05:002018-01-14T21:20:22.675-05:00I know this from Warhammer 40K, orks that have arm...I know this from Warhammer 40K, orks that have armour are 'ard boyz. Warhammer Orks are based on football hooligans.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5169369305531998682017-10-21T16:21:29.348-04:002017-10-21T16:21:29.348-04:00It's always nice to have a developer stop by, ...It's always nice to have a developer stop by, but perhaps warn him that I didn't exactly give a glowing review.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-81945688721282237272017-10-21T13:04:34.712-04:002017-10-21T13:04:34.712-04:00Yeah, somehow on first pass I didn't understan...Yeah, somehow on first pass I didn't understand Anonymous's comment, so I was late to the artwork critique party. I will say that I've probably spent orders of magnitude more time looking at D&D artwork than my own driver's license. Plus I started D&D at least 5 years before I even had a license.Quirkzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16409671254311123117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-16087538456137826222017-10-20T14:05:42.389-04:002017-10-20T14:05:42.389-04:00Yeah, it would be great. I love reading about how ...Yeah, it would be great. I love reading about how these games were made. Especially those that were low bidget projects or made by then teenagers.Mag Wielki i Szelkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807838665939928892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-69118103195319733892017-10-20T05:47:30.334-04:002017-10-20T05:47:30.334-04:00Are you kidding me? Everyone, including Chester, l...Are you kidding me? Everyone, including Chester, loves it when authors are dragged back to their old games. By all means, do it!Raifieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08478524519453417677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-12971769784633680372017-10-20T03:35:33.337-04:002017-10-20T03:35:33.337-04:00or at least a gunor at least a gunWonkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05147422102351323674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-1763346819159344182017-10-19T23:51:32.280-04:002017-10-19T23:51:32.280-04:00If you played D&D basic set that was the cover...If you played D&D basic set that was the cover of the famous red box and it's manual and the startdd with a introductory line about a pile of treasures and red dragon making an appearance.<br /><br />In other words any one who has ever played pen&paper in the 80's instinctively regocnizes that cover and Elmores classic "titty elf" art style.Petri R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-7113512871761141282017-10-19T20:25:15.033-04:002017-10-19T20:25:15.033-04:00SSH! You don't have to admit that!SSH! You don't have to admit that!Joe Pranevichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997014242774219758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-51068551175025995422017-10-19T19:55:12.277-04:002017-10-19T19:55:12.277-04:00Thanks for the exposition!Thanks for the exposition!Arthurdawgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-26194638020818277822017-10-19T18:14:48.047-04:002017-10-19T18:14:48.047-04:00Heh, 8-bit microcomputer wars 30+ years later, now...Heh, 8-bit microcomputer wars 30+ years later, now we just need someone who had an msx :).<br /><br />Sure, I agree with most of your points (although the extra 6502 in the c64 disk drive didn't work out so well :P, and I wouldn't call a 36% extra CPU horsepower "iffy", going by your own numbers), but I have to disagree with your comments about the performance of the Freescape games (which I'm well aware began development on the CPC, never claimed otherwise); <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo0zrgaqrvI" rel="nofollow">the spectrum is noticeably faster</a> than <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcaUX8n_Tw" rel="nofollow">the C64</a> even though the latter is rendering at a lower resolution, and there's no need to take my word for it, as it's something easy enough to test empirically on your emulator of choice.Seolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-35877228611355869202017-10-19T17:05:12.767-04:002017-10-19T17:05:12.767-04:00Chester, would you like me to ask Steve Screech if...Chester, would you like me to ask Steve Screech if he'd come here and talk a bit about this game?<br /><br />We still stay in touch - as you said, he made quite the name for himself in soccer games, and there's a yearly meeting of people coming from all corners of the world with their Amiga 500s and decide who's the best player of Kick Off 2 (probably Anco's biggest selling game?)Pedro Q.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03572150497835442981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-7517846323077447552017-10-19T15:32:04.741-04:002017-10-19T15:32:04.741-04:00Even in raw CPU the Spectrum was iffy. While the Z...Even in raw CPU the Spectrum was iffy. While the Z80 in the Spectrum was clocked 3 times faster than the 6502 derivative in the C64, the Z80 was a much more basic design than the 6502, and thus the 6502 gave more performance on a per-cycle basis.<br /><br />The Z80 (released in 1976) was a derivative of the Intel 8080 (released in 1974). The primary market for the Z80 was as a low-cost replacement for the 8080 that Intel was phasing out in favor of the superior 8085 (1976) and the in-development 8086/8088 family (1978).<br /><br />The 6502 began as a clean-sheet design in 1975 (meaning that the basic technology was a year newer), and was able to use external RAM for register commands. The internal instruction set was also shorter and more efficient. Most hobbyists working with the hardware today consider the Z80 to require between 200% and 220% clock speed to equal a 6502 in most applications, which suggests that the Spectrum had a 3:2.2 advantage in performance rather than the 3:1 that it appears to have at first glance.<br /><br />Add in the way that most C64 peripherals had a processor built in instead of relying on the 64's processor (a move made possible by Commodore's vertical integration with MOS technologies), and the Spectrum's processing advantage drops to almost nothing. Which is why the Freescape games (which debuted on the Amstrad CPC (using a 4Mhz Z80), not the ZX specturm) could be ported to the C64 quite well. There was no significant performance difference among the 8-bit versions of Driller/Space Station Oblivion, with the primary difference being that the Spectum version was by far the ugliest. Gnomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920812227941556716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-89500903392967745522017-10-19T15:12:26.388-04:002017-10-19T15:12:26.388-04:00Wow, that is quite an effective and gutsy ending, ...Wow, that is quite an effective and gutsy ending, given the limitations of the game.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-78144558724491585302017-10-19T15:10:31.940-04:002017-10-19T15:10:31.940-04:00Ending:
Bapr lbh unir gur svir zntvpny funcrf, lb...Ending:<br /><br />Bapr lbh unir gur svir zntvpny funcrf, lbh'yy unir gb tb gb gur Benpyr, juvpu tenagf lbh gur Fgnss bs gur Tbqf:<br /><br />"Nyy bs n fhqqra gur tebhaq orarngu lbhe srrg ortvaf gb dhnxr naq yvtugravat synfurf cnfg lbhe urnq, gura va sebag bs lbh n infg vzntr bs na byq zna nccrnef. Lbh ybbx hc ng vg naq gur vzntr ortvaf gb fcrnx.<br /><br />'Jryy qbar, oenir jneevbe, lbh unir erghearq gb zr zl fnperq negvsnpgf. Abj xvyy Ihypbe naq lbhe dhrfg jvyy or pbzcyrgr, ohg uheel, sbe rirel frpbaq lbh jnfgr ur tebjf rire zber cbjreshy.'"<br /><br />Rdhvccrq jvgu gur fgnss, lbh'yy svaq Ihypbe va gur "sebmra abegu." Xvyyvat uvz nccneragyl vzzrqvngryl cebqhprf gur raqvat:<br /><br />"Nf lbh fgnaq nobir gur znatyrq znff gung jnf bapr Ihypbe, n fjveyvat zvfg rathysf lbh naq lbh svaq vg vzcbffvoyr gb zbir. Gura lbh ybfr pbafpvbhfarff.<br /><br />Lbh ertnva pbafpvbhfarff fybjyl naq nf lbhe rlrf ortva gb trg hfrq gb gur oevtug fhayvtug oynmvat qbja hcba lbh, lbh svaq gung lbh ner va gur snzvyvne fheebhaqvatf bs lbhe ubzr gbja bapr ntnva. Lbh dhvpxyl znxr lbhe jnl gb lbhe ubzr sbe gur wblshy erhavba gung njnvgf lbh.<br /><br />Lbh ohefg guebhtu gur sebag qbbe bs lbhe ubhfr rkcrpgvat gb svaq lbhe snzvyl ohg gurer vf abobql urer. Nf lbh ybbx nebhaq lbh pna frr fznfurq pebpxrel naq jbbq fgerja npebff gur pbooyrq sybbe. Gura lbh fcbg n abgr fpenjyrq hcba n oebxra gnoyr naq lbh gerzoyr nf lbh ortva gb ernq...<br /><br />'Lbhe snzvyl vf nyvir. Whfg vg'f rvgure lbh be gurz. Pbzr naq trg gurz, obl. Gur Qvfpvcyrf bs Ihypbe jvyy niratr.' Gur zrffntr raqf."<br /><br />Naq gung'f vg.Zardashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856007425128087340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-62809266032522344312017-10-19T14:44:22.674-04:002017-10-19T14:44:22.674-04:00Darn... was planning to post this!
As for the dra...Darn... was planning to post this!<br /><br />As for the dragon behind a rock... reminds me of a scene from Mazes and Monsters I think?? It has been decades since I've seen the movie though...<br /><br />arthurdawgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-6848185645554016872017-10-19T12:01:47.814-04:002017-10-19T12:01:47.814-04:00D&D was an important part of many of our lives...D&D was an important part of many of our lives, I suspect.erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088258287586749431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-23283199235075128622017-10-19T08:51:55.902-04:002017-10-19T08:51:55.902-04:00It's just how the font is designed. The fact t...It's just how the font is designed. The fact that it's twice as thick as other characters bothers me a lot more.Zardashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856007425128087340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5847924238315669222017-10-19T07:15:49.747-04:002017-10-19T07:15:49.747-04:00Exclamation marks for the letter "I" are...Exclamation marks for the letter "I" are driving me crazy. Is that a weird spectrum programming issue, or did this game's author think it was a good idea? Dungyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12199751859534712567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-66862152146616152662017-10-19T05:13:55.898-04:002017-10-19T05:13:55.898-04:00spoil the ending in ROT13spoil the ending in ROT13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53304044177916728792017-10-19T04:02:37.095-04:002017-10-19T04:02:37.095-04:00I love reading about old 8bit computer games. The ...I love reading about old 8bit computer games. The spectrum was superior to the C64 in terms of raw CPU power, as could be seen in the Freescape 3d games (Castle Master and the like), but lacked the fancy dedicated video and audio hardware of the C64 (the AY-3-8912 <a href="http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/m/sergey-kosov/you-life/" rel="nofollow">was no slouch,</a> but it only came integrated with the 128k models).Seolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-48396735689364213482017-10-19T03:02:11.949-04:002017-10-19T03:02:11.949-04:00"For no reason that I can possibly justify ex...<i>"For no reason that I can possibly justify except that I've recorded a loss on two consecutive games"</i><br /><br />Looking at the obscure and/or foreign games on your upcoming list I recon you might pick up quite a few losses in a short space of time. Even Google isn't helping me much with what exactly "Maze Quest" is. Good luck with them all!Mikrakovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359946565373258773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-45061939817883875632017-10-19T03:01:54.382-04:002017-10-19T03:01:54.382-04:00Charisma definitely plays a role. If I'm readi...Charisma definitely plays a role. If I'm reading the code right, you'll need at least 11 to be able to speak with everyone. Apparently there's a potion that gives +3 and one of the magical rings grants +4, so you're probably not doomed if you start with a low value.<br /><br />Well anyway, I'm not sure if you even want to waste any more time on this clearly amateur effort, especially if it's bugged. I'm tempted to just spoil the ending and be done with it.Zardashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856007425128087340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-60567215793419685372017-10-19T01:52:34.507-04:002017-10-19T01:52:34.507-04:00Yeah I agree, this seems like (yet another) games ...Yeah I agree, this seems like (yet another) games you could drastically improve with a bit of bug squashing, a balance pass and a few QoL improvements. Tristan Gallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769219573533545742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-7850102178998275662017-10-19T01:48:15.267-04:002017-10-19T01:48:15.267-04:00Or maybe that bit about "DAMIENNE STOLE THE S...Or maybe that bit about "DAMIENNE STOLE THE SCROLLS" was a bug and only one NPC was supposed to have that line. The rest were supposed to give me all the information in this file.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-29402254909159161242017-10-19T01:47:28.349-04:002017-10-19T01:47:28.349-04:00Weird. Only one person mentioned a "shape&quo...Weird. Only one person mentioned a "shape" to me, and he wouldn't acknowledge when I brought him what he was looking for. I think maybe I was hurt by a low charisma, and a lot of the NPCs didn't say things to me that they were supposed to say.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.com