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| Subject | Re: Origin Of ..... Darklands the video game? Medieval Europe? |
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| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| References | (5 earlier) <116rtvk$2aq9n$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <BpxkS.33767$VHd4.13566@fx06.ams4> <116vf6j$3hmqb$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <6wblS.187658$e_1.73200@fx18.ams4> <20260831164022.1f895e8875f5a067abce9193@127.0.0.1> |
| From | Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> |
| Organization | Watcom Pro Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <eQXlS.86$9H1.56@fx01.ams4> (permalink) |
| Date | 2026-09-03 00:06 +0800 |
On 31/08/2026 11:40 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:08:17 +0800 > Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote: > >> On 30/08/2026 4:24 AM, Mr. Chang Man-wai wrote: >>> On 8/29/2026 5:14 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> It was a minor annoyance that I had to choose to boot into Windows >>>> for /office applications/, and not for the Darklands graphical appli- >>>> cation, but learned to live with the decision at boot time. >>> Why are you so obsessed with Darklands? >>> >>> It's NOT exactly a "graphical application", >>> but just a game, a role-playing game. >>> >>> Seems that you wanna travel back in time >>> to medieval Europe for some unknown reasons. >>> Is it because you have some unfinished >>> business back then? >> >> Well, as it turns out, I was never very good at Darklands as a teenager, >> I guess the complexity of a role playing game got me, and I gave up on >> playing. I have now re-acquired the game on GOG, and will hopefully go >> through the story of /Medieval Germany/ all over again sometime in the >> near future. >> >> So my /unfinished business/ is less Germany, and more the game. After >> all, why have DOS compatible computers if we can't game on them? >> >> >> Have a nice day playing Darklands!too many weird xposts > > for DOS choose Duke3d. (eduke32 for windows) Dear Kerr-Mudd, John, Thank you for the recommendation. I'll add it to my list of first person shooters sometime after playing through what I have of the Hexen series. I never got around to it back in the day, and I'm still in no hurry. After all, good games are good games. > > Fu dropped all but afc > That's fine. We can add more news groups as the discussion digresses. Best wishes, and happy D.O.S. gaming! -- Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/ I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
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