Series : Dungeons & Dragons
Developer : Westwood
Genre : First person role-playing
Features : Freely Customizable Stats
No Map
Permanent Level Up
Graphics : Bitmap-based 3D
Hardware : Keyboard control
Ports : Eye of the Beholder II (1992 Amiga)
not completed.
Modified keyboard layout
Image source: mobygames.com
Facts
- If I don't enable mouse support in AUTOEXEC.BAT, the game can be played with keyboard only.
- When you kill the Clerics in the temple, you can press a switch where can get to a resurrection chamber.
- This game does not have an automap.
Log entries
- The keyboard layout is *all over the place*. It's one of the worst keyboard layouts I have ever tried to learn, which says a lot. In a standard combat situation you use F1-F4 to select characters or WASZ to move the cursor, U to attack, 1-6, <>, and Space to activate spells, and the numeric keypad for movement. If I had 4 arms, this would probably work perfectly.
- The mental load of playing with keyboard is almost too much to deal with.
- The MiSTer allows remapping controller buttons to keys. I tried creating a Dualshock 4 layout for this game, but there are just too many buttons. The spell level keys 1-6 are killing my layout plans.
- I think the best solution is to remap keys to other keys and make a keyboard layout that is centered around the home row. I will try keeping movement on the left home keys, and the selection cursor on the right home keys.
- In the MiSTer menu, I can remap keys temporarily by first pressing the key I want to use, and then which key I want simulated.
- I now have a usable remapping that remaps the numeric keypad to QWER for rotation and ASDF for strafing, and JKL; for cursor movement. I think I can get used to this.
- The remapped keyboard works pretty well, although moving items around by dropping them on the ground is clunky to say the least. Entering the word from the manual was a puzzle in itself, because I didn't have all the letters to type in the word, because they were mapped to the numeric keypad, etc. I found the complete list of words in an old abandonia.com forum post from 2005.
If I'm getting back into this, I could use the Official Clue Book.
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