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artefacts found have 'plus' factors. Careful
that you don't inadvertently press
'RETURN' to pick up an item which has a
smaller 'plus' factor than the one you
already have. Its very easy to do in the heat
of the moment! Sadly, you will have lost
the one you were carrying.
I have found items up to 'plus 8' but I
suspect that there are more powerful
creations deeper down. One of the most
useful is a 'Ring of Regeneration', this aids
the recovery of your hit points by its 'plus
factor' with each step you take, a definite
necessity for exploration below level two.
There are also the useful 'Scrolls of
Rescue' - you may pick up several of
these. Using one will take you back to
your original place of entry to Telengard
(under that inn), but there is a cost, any
gold you have with you is lost on the way.
This is sometimes a fair price to pay if you
have been teleported to an unknown
corner of the underworld.
Characters may be saved on a separate
cassette and I would recommend doing
this immediately you enter the game -
especially if you have taken any time in
trying to get the character's attributes to
your liking!
The instruction booklet burbles on
about being able to load dead characters
if their name begins with SV - I think this
must be a throw back to a disk based
predecessor, as I died with monotonous
regularity and had no trouble time-
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shifting my character to a 'save' before he
died!
I hope I have whetted a few appetites
of the more adventurous amongst you
with what has gone before perhaps now is
the time to look at the other side of
Telengard.
For a start, it cannot be in the true spirit
of the dedicated D & D game. Why?
Because I do not think you could stay alive
for long enough to ever get anywhere
without 'saving' your character to tape at
very frequent intervals. I was prepared to
accept this as part of the 'overall battle',
others may not be so sanguine about it.
There are other problems you have to
overcome too. And not part of the game
either! I have never had a program crash
so often before. It loaded perfectly and
within the first few moments crashed with
a SYNTAX ERROR IN LINE XXXX.
Sometimes RUN got it going again, only to
crash once more with a syntax error in a
different line!
Once past the first few minutes, things
were OK until I 'saved' a character. Most
times this went perfectly but there were
many occasions when the program
crashed after a successful 'save' and the
main program had to be loaded from
scratch (about four minutes).
The program as you must have
guessed from the above is written in Basic
and of course is a little slow to re-draw
your character's surroundings as you
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Neither does the keyboard buffer get
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Armour!
For all these genuine criticisms, I have
to admit I enjoyed the game enormously.,
quite addictive in fact, and that's
something, for someone who plays as
many adventures as I do. But then I'm a
simple barbarian at heart.
I do not think that Eclipse Software still
exists - it was an 'imprint' for Longmans
(the publishers) but the program is still for
sale. The cost is not high, so if you are a
frustrated 'dungeon dweller' why not
have a try - I really would like to hear what
you think of it.
If you cannot find it in your local shops
you can get it direct from: Customer
Services Dept, Longmans Group Ltd, 4th
Avenue, Pinnacles, Harlow, Essex CM19
5AA. The price is £7.95 plus 75p post and
packing. Mine may have been a rogue
copy, but if yours crashes like mine just
consider it as part of the adventure, and
please do not complain - you have been
warned!
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