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Re: Daggorath PC Port ported to RISC OS
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Harriet Bazley
May 27, 2012, 4:49:22 PM5/27/12
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On 25 May 2012 as I do recall,
Christopher Martin wrote:
> Are you hard enough to slap an armoured knight to death with naught
> but your bare hands while deadlier things are hunting you down in the
> pitch black? Then come play in the Dungeons of Daggorath!
[snip]
A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself while
being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting, if not
being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM' settings
from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you rapidly from sheer
exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the monster attacks of the
first 30 seconds?
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Please all, and you will please none.
Christopher Martin wrote:
> Are you hard enough to slap an armoured knight to death with naught
> but your bare hands while deadlier things are hunting you down in the
> pitch black? Then come play in the Dungeons of Daggorath!
[snip]
A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself while
being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting, if not
being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM' settings
from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you rapidly from sheer
exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the monster attacks of the
first 30 seconds?
--
Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Please all, and you will please none.
Sjouke Burry
May 27, 2012, 10:58:48 PM5/27/12
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Harriet Bazley <baz...@feathermail.co.uk> wrote in
news:48f69a965...@blueyonder.co.uk:
> On 25 May 2012 as I do recall,
> Christopher Martin wrote:
>
>> Are you hard enough to slap an armoured knight to death with naught
>> but your bare hands while deadlier things are hunting you down in the
>> pitch black? Then come play in the Dungeons of Daggorath!
>
> [snip]
>
> A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself while
> being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting, if not
> being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM' settings
> from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you rapidly from sheer
> exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the monster attacks of the
> first 30 seconds?
>
Yep! ctrl-alt-del (or the equivalence for yor OS) will do.....
news:48f69a965...@blueyonder.co.uk:
> On 25 May 2012 as I do recall,
> Christopher Martin wrote:
>
>> Are you hard enough to slap an armoured knight to death with naught
>> but your bare hands while deadlier things are hunting you down in the
>> pitch black? Then come play in the Dungeons of Daggorath!
>
> [snip]
>
> A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself while
> being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting, if not
> being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM' settings
> from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you rapidly from sheer
> exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the monster attacks of the
> first 30 seconds?
>
Christopher Martin
May 31, 2012, 6:47:41 PM5/31/12
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In message <48f69a965...@blueyonder.co.uk>
Pretty much every new game begins with these three commands:
P L T
U L
P R SW
These can be typed while the word "PREPARE" is displayed before the
game gets under way.
I suggest picking on the spiders first. They can be felled with a
single blow of the wooden sword. The snakes are also good value
targets, but be careful because they initially take three hits and
they attack faster than spiders. The standard tactic is this sequence:
A R (Typed while the snake approaches, but don't press [Enter] yet.)
(If you are lucky, the snake will rattle before moving to attack.
If you hear the rattle before it attacks, press Enter and then...)
A R [Enter]
A R [Enter]
M [Enter]
M [Enter]
M [Enter]
T A [Enter]
If the snake doesn't rattle before it attacks, then just [Enter] the
A R command and go straight to the three M commands. Typically, I'll
have "A R_" sitting on the command line with a couple of right-hand
fingers hovering over Enter and my left index finger hovering over M
ready to go as the beastie approaches.
And in this game, keylag is your friend. Veteran players of the
original game would use a variety of tricks to stay ahead of the
keyboard while moving and attacking. As you go deeper into the
dungeon, if at any time the keyboard buffer empties when there is a
beastie in your room, you're dead for sure.
--
Regards, Chris.
Harriet Bazley <baz...@feathermail.co.uk> wrote:
> A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself
> while being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting,
> if not being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM'
> settings from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you
> rapidly from sheer exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the
> monster attacks of the first 30 seconds?
Sorry for the slow response. I don't normally watch the newsgroups.
> A typical game seems to involve desperately trying to arm oneself
> while being nibbled to death within seconds of the game's starting,
> if not being killed by keylag (even after downgrading to 'StrongARM'
> settings from 'XScale'). Even running away seems to kill you
> rapidly from sheer exhaustion: is there a trick to surviving the
> monster attacks of the first 30 seconds?
Pretty much every new game begins with these three commands:
P L T
U L
P R SW
These can be typed while the word "PREPARE" is displayed before the
game gets under way.
I suggest picking on the spiders first. They can be felled with a
single blow of the wooden sword. The snakes are also good value
targets, but be careful because they initially take three hits and
they attack faster than spiders. The standard tactic is this sequence:
A R (Typed while the snake approaches, but don't press [Enter] yet.)
(If you are lucky, the snake will rattle before moving to attack.
If you hear the rattle before it attacks, press Enter and then...)
A R [Enter]
A R [Enter]
M [Enter]
M [Enter]
M [Enter]
T A [Enter]
If the snake doesn't rattle before it attacks, then just [Enter] the
A R command and go straight to the three M commands. Typically, I'll
have "A R_" sitting on the command line with a couple of right-hand
fingers hovering over Enter and my left index finger hovering over M
ready to go as the beastie approaches.
And in this game, keylag is your friend. Veteran players of the
original game would use a variety of tricks to stay ahead of the
keyboard while moving and attacking. As you go deeper into the
dungeon, if at any time the keyboard buffer empties when there is a
beastie in your room, you're dead for sure.
--
Regards, Chris.
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