I think I've found a unused object in Dun Darach.
If you poke one of your pockets (0xb14f) with the value of 0x01, you get an object 'token'. When you drop it it looks like a pile of iridi.
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Ah, hang on I've just worked it out, its the object used when dropping money in the bank.. Normally you don't carry it in one of the inventory slots. But by forcing the value in I've created an extra object.
However last week I actually set myself the challenge of playing DD by only my wits and to understand each clue before proceeding. I amazed myself, but I have always been reasonable at adventures if I might say so myself.
Played it for about half an hour, openly declared "What the **** is this bullshit!?" and loaded up a different game (I might give it another try in a few days to see if my opinion has changed).
Played it for about half an hour, openly declared "What the **** is this bullshit!?" and loaded up a different game (I might give it another try in a few days to see if my opinion has changed).
But if you had paid, say, £60 for it, you might have given it more of a chance? =)
They were games that you had to work at and the more you got into them, the more real they became, the biggest thing to get round was turning round 45 degrees or 90 degrees. If you made a point of only turning in one direction, i.e. left or only right, it stopped you walking round in circles and then you started to visualise the surroundings better.
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Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
Played it for about half an hour, openly declared "What the **** is this bullshit!?" and loaded up a different game (I might give it another try in a few days to see if my opinion has changed).
But if you had paid, say, £60 for it, you might have given it more of a chance? =)
True. Good point. I'd have felt a little more compelled to try and finish it.
Spectrum games never cost anywhere near that much though. I could never understand why people would buy consoles with games that price when cheap, easy to use, computers were around. Once it became a choice of a £1000+ PC or a Playstation then it became more reasonable, but when it was Spectrum/C64 or SMS/NES, the console choice seemed insane to me, especially on a child's income.
Dun Darach cost £9.95 in 1985, allowing for inflation that would be nearly £29 now, which whilst is a lot cheaper than a triple A console title, is in a similar ballpark to most other new releases.
I can't remember how much console cartridges were, but I vaguely remember looking at the cost of a SNES cart with Mario in the title and thinking the same as you!
Dun Darach cost £9.95 in 1985, allowing for inflation that would be nearly £29 now, which whilst is a lot cheaper than a triple A console title, is in a similar ballpark to most other new releases.
Most new releases for all platforms are on cheap media now though. The cost was in the tech for the cartridges, ROM and RAM chips were expensive, hence the few carts that were available for computers being equally stupidly expensive.
Console game prices have fallen with the change in media. Your SMS/NES carts will be around £100 in current money.
Your £29 Dun Darach still equates to a new game every month or so for a kid on todays pocket money rates, versus a couple a year for cartridges.
Now is a great time to be a kid. Access to all our heritage games, and cheap console games to boot. The only downside is they accept microtransactions as the norm.
Dun Darach cost £9.95 in 1985, allowing for inflation that would be nearly £29 now, which whilst is a lot cheaper than a triple A console title, is in a similar ballpark to most other new releases.
Then again, your income today might also be tad bit higher than back then.. =)
Dun Darach cost £9.95 in 1985, allowing for inflation that would be nearly £29 now, which whilst is a lot cheaper than a triple A console title, is in a similar ballpark to most other new releases.
Then again, your income today might also be tad bit higher than back then.. =)
No, He still gets the same amount of pocket money
:)
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
Someone do a tutorial for this game please. I just get lost,what are you supposed to do? Magazines raved on about this game and the other Gargoyle titles. I only recently played Dun Darach and it looks neat. I played Marsport years ago off a YS cover tape, but I couldn't get my head around it. One thing about new games is that they give you tutorials which give you a chance to get into it.
Well I'm hoping to put together a definitive solution, but these things take time. Got other Gargoyle things to write first. You could try the Tip Shop
I think I've found to unused images in Dun Darach, correct me if I'm wrong...
Does anyone recognise these?
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the GUILDs images were not still in there, as they were not all abandoned from the early days, unfortunately only the Thieves Guild remained.
The bottom image has changed !
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Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
Here's an interesting thought;
I was wondering why GG never released a 128 version of Dun Darach to include all those bits they left out. My assumption is cost over development time over number of 128s that were sold, they probably wouldn't have got their money back. However I do wonder, if they had taken the risk, how many more 128s would have been bought that year. I would have even have got a Saturday job (gasp) to have bought a 128 for Dun Darach. :)
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Yes I noticed those as well.
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If you poke one of your pockets (0xb14f) with the value of 0x01, you get an object 'token'. When you drop it it looks like a pile of iridi.
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Ah, hang on I've just worked it out, its the object used when dropping money in the bank.. Normally you don't carry it in one of the inventory slots. But by forcing the value in I've created an extra object.
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Now we all know, how you completed all these games...
However last week I actually set myself the challenge of playing DD by only my wits and to understand each clue before proceeding. I amazed myself, but I have always been reasonable at adventures if I might say so myself.
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http://goo.gl/q2j0NZ - make ZX Spectrum choose your own adventure games, no programming needed (release 3)
True. Good point. I'd have felt a little more compelled to try and finish it.
I can't remember how much console cartridges were, but I vaguely remember looking at the cost of a SNES cart with Mario in the title and thinking the same as you!
Most new releases for all platforms are on cheap media now though. The cost was in the tech for the cartridges, ROM and RAM chips were expensive, hence the few carts that were available for computers being equally stupidly expensive.
Console game prices have fallen with the change in media. Your SMS/NES carts will be around £100 in current money.
Your £29 Dun Darach still equates to a new game every month or so for a kid on todays pocket money rates, versus a couple a year for cartridges.
Now is a great time to be a kid. Access to all our heritage games, and cheap console games to boot. The only downside is they accept microtransactions as the norm.
http://goo.gl/q2j0NZ - make ZX Spectrum choose your own adventure games, no programming needed (release 3)
No, He still gets the same amount of pocket money
:)
Unless you waited a year or so and got them at Comets who were clearing them out at £5 an adventure ;)
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Does anyone recognise these?
{edit} The first one might be one of the jewels given to Pita {/edit}
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I wouldn't be surprised if some of the GUILDs images were not still in there, as they were not all abandoned from the early days, unfortunately only the Thieves Guild remained.
The bottom image has changed !
I was wondering why GG never released a 128 version of Dun Darach to include all those bits they left out. My assumption is cost over development time over number of 128s that were sold, they probably wouldn't have got their money back. However I do wonder, if they had taken the risk, how many more 128s would have been bought that year. I would have even have got a Saturday job (gasp) to have bought a 128 for Dun Darach. :)
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