| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE RING OF DARKNESS (c) WINTERSOFT ★ |
| Amstrad Magazine | Home Computing Weekly | Popular Computing Weekly |
One of that rare breed of programs that were so good on the Dragon that they had to be converted on to other machines, Ring of Darkness is often classed as an ‘adventure' but, despite a degree of text input and output, it in fact owes more to role playing computer games such as Wumpus and The Valley. As in Dungeons and Dragons you build up a character with amounts of intelligence, strength and agility and choose a suitable race and role such as ‘elf-thief' You must then cross the land, gaming experience as you are set upon by thugs and complete many minor tasks set you by any Kings you bump into. Along the way you come across hints that there is in fact a much greater quest, involving said ring, to be completed but getting anywhere with this will involve many hours of play. Movement is represented on screen by simple non-animated graphics which travel in character-square sized jumps over a plain view of the countryside. For once, however, this is excusable because every spare byte of memory has been used in creating the large playing area and complex plot. Occasionally, preferably when you have accumulated a lot of experience and power, you can venture underground into dungeons which are comprised of graphic mazes and are full of evil things. (If you are contemplating buying a 3D maze game then don't, because those held within Ring are amongst the best I have seen and you get much, much more besides.)
Thanks to the use of data compression techniques the 464 game holds all the mazes within the one program - on earlier versions they had to be loaded in off the tape which was irritating if you only survived ten seconds. A deservedly popular program that gives a lot for your money. Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly |
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Page créée en 014 millisecondes et consultée 3837 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
