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[rabadi]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]</div>

That big-version of Lands of Lore from the underdogs........... have anyone tried it yet???[/b]

Yes, I have tried it last year.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]</div>

Is it easy to install and play...[/b]

Assuming the archive is still the same with the one I downloaded and played last year, just use WinRAR to extract the files inside. Then open the first one, LOLCD.001 or something like that, with WinRAR once again, and do extract.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]</div>

How do you make it play??[/b]

Use DOSBox.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rabadi @ Aug 15 2006, 01:07 AM) [snapback]248632[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]

That big-version of Lands of Lore from the underdogs........... have anyone tried it yet???[/b]

Yes, I have tried it last year.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]</div>

Is it easy to install and play...[/b]

Assuming the archive is still the same with the one I downloaded and played last year, just use WinRAR to extract the files inside. Then open the first one, LOLCD.001 or something like that, with WinRAR once again, and do extract.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yalla-Johnny @ Aug 14 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]248557[/snapback]</div>

How do you make it play??[/b]

Use DOSBox.
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Thanks man k:
Then ill try it then.
This is a very cool game. Especially this CD-Version.

And then there is the game: have you also had the problem that in the final chapter, Scotias tower, that some of the animals constantly acided your armor???
When i played it first time, the monsters (especially that wheel-looking-clown with the big eye) acided and destroyed my best pieces of armor (and i forgot to save, because i am so dumb), so that in the final battle that red-haired man (Paulson i think) did not where any armor..... so the battlle was very hard.
But had any of you other also tried that really iritating problem????
(PS: Sorry for my poor typing-skills)

[Undertaker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(yalla-johnny @ Aug 15 2006, 03:26 PM) [snapback]248714[/snapback]</div>

But had any of you other also tried that really iritating problem????
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Not really. Just put your chest armor in your inventory and you should be fine. If you do lose your armor, let Baccata be the one without armor; he's in the middle of the guys, so he gets hit the least often. Generally, only monsters that take up an entire square (that would include Scotia) attack Baccata. Or just find some new armor. There are some to be found in the Dungeons and Castle Cimmeria.

[uk_john2005]

The answer is pretty much always the same. 'It works in DOSBox'. I also recommend you get a free front end for DOSBox called D-Fend. It set's up the mounting and soundcard, etc globally, which mean you only have to set it up once, you can set the cycles and skips, etc in D-Fend because you can set a profile for each game. Once the profile is set you double click on it and D_Fend calls DOSBox, gives it the paramenters and settings you have made in the D-Fend profile and starts the game. No setting the mounting over and over again and resetting the cycles. In D-Fend, just do it the once!

I have about 50 old DOS games listed in my D-Fend profile list. I couldn't even tell you what cycles, etc I have each game set up for. All I do is double click on the game, just like a shortcut and DOSBox opens, the game loads, the screen goes full screen and I have the game running at the cycles and setting I want without having to touch anything (other than the first time)!!!

[rabadi]

Well that's interesting. I never use D-Fend, I just use the traditional DOSBox. Do you mean that in D-Fend, the program will be intelligent enough to raise or reduce cycles according to the game being played? I mean, if I want to play games like Lands of Lore and Anvil of Dawn, I will set the cycles to 8000. But when I played Ancient Land of Ys, the cycles needed to be reduced as low as 250, 'cause otherwise the game will be much too fast. With Albion, however, no amount of raising/reducing cycles really worked for me, it is unbearably slow. So, can D-Fend adjust that automatically?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rabadi @ Aug 16 2006, 12:59 AM) [snapback]248807[/snapback]</div>

Well that's interesting. I never use D-Fend, I just use the traditional DOSBox. Do you mean that in D-Fend, the program will be intelligent enough to raise or reduce cycles according to the game being played? I mean, if I want to play games like Lands of Lore and Anvil of Dawn, I will set the cycles to 8000. But when I played Ancient Land of Ys, the cycles needed to be reduced as low as 250, 'cause otherwise the game will be much too fast. With Albion, however, no amount of raising/reducing cycles really worked for me, it is unbearably slow. So, can D-Fend adjust that automatically?
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No. Cycles cannot be automatically changed by D-Fend.It wouldn't know what speed you would be happy with! You still have to use Ctl-F12 to raise cycles etc. This is what I mean by setting te game up first time. Once you have started the game the first time and raised/lowered the cycles to what your happy with you would put that information into the game profile in D-Fend. D-Fend can auto cycle up and down by 500 (there's an option to tick in the profile) The main point is that once this information is put into D-Fend, that's it. In your Ancient Land of Y's you have to adjust the cycles everytime you play the game. You also have to mount the drive, and if it needs the CD you have to mount the CD as well. In D-Fend, you do all this just once. And once you put the cycles required into the profile, that's it.

All I can say is get D-Fend, read the readme.txt, or just try it. I am currently playing about 5 Abandonia games. I would hate to go back to opening DosBox, mounting the drives, going to the correct folder and starting the exe, then increasing/decreasing cycles, etc. In fact D-Fend is why I am happy playing 5 games at once. For me it's just a double click on the profile title in D-Fend to start the game. Hardly any more than any modern game shortcut on your desktop! And I haven't even mentioned the fact you have room for comments on the game, you can classify it in a genre, then list by genre, you have many settings you can play around with to get a stubbvorn game working, but it only involves ticking boxes, not entering all those esoteric commands in DosBox! There's many more options too that even I only skim the surface of. It really is an excellent DosBox front end. I personally think the two products should merge. I will close by saying that once you have used D-Fend for a little while you will never see how you managed with just DosBox!

I think you can tell I am a fan of D-Fend! And it's free!

[rabadi]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 21 2006, 08:47 AM) [snapback]249856[/snapback]</div>

No. Cycles cannot be automatically changed by D-Fend... [/b]

Thanks for the info. I usually do not play more than one game at a time, and after I finish a game I usually just burn the game along with saved game files into CDs then remove the folder from harddisk, so I may not get much use of D-Fend profile, but thanks anyway for the info k:

[uk_john2005]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rabadi @ Aug 22 2006, 02:07 AM) [snapback]250101[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 21 2006, 08:47 AM) [snapback]249856[/snapback]

No. Cycles cannot be automatically changed by D-Fend... [/b]

Thanks for the info. I usually do not play more than one game at a time, and after I finish a game I usually just burn the game along with saved game files into CDs then remove the folder from harddisk, so I may not get much use of D-Fend profile, but thanks anyway for the info k:
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But surely even if you burn it to a CD, if you have to play the game in DosBox, you still have to set it up in dosbox everytime you play? If you are not using dosbox, yes, I understand you don't have to use d-fend, it only works with dosbox, after all!

I tried first at downloading this game, from the link that was put here.... the one that lead to the underdogs. At first they refused to let me download this game in 110 mb version.... then i clicked back on this site, found a direkt link from this site to the underdogs, found lands of lore once again..... and then i could download it esaily..... just that i would let you all know.

Now back to the game: i stepped into the swamp, and i have now gotten some bronze-horse-shue..... i cant use it on my charaters and cant equip it. I can only get 5 or 10 crowns for it.,....,.,.,
Do any of you know a better use of it???
Can i give it to the guy who drives Dawn in the wagon???
Or is there another hidden purpose of the bronze-horse-shue that i do not know about??


That is the same thing when you i think it is in the white tower, you find a granit-rock.... does that have any other use, than being sold for 5 crowns????
Secondly (i must warn you, this is the most irrelevant thing in this thread, i think): have you noticed that there are 3 different kind of rocks in this game?? Yes, there is rock, granite, and then there is a smothe-rock.... (4 kind of rocks, if you count coal)...... just to let you know..

[Scatty]

No, the coal doesn't count. Other rocks can be throwed when picked up to hurt enemies slightly, and also can be equipped as weapons in hands I think, but the damage is very low. The different kinds of rocks do different damage, other than that there shouldn't be anything more behind them.