Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon (DOS)
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Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
DOS 1991
            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)
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not completed.
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
Modified keyboard layout

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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

    2022-08-28
  • 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.
    • 2022-08-29
  • 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.
    • 2022-08-30
  • 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.
    • 2022-08-31
  • 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.
    • 2022-09-02
  • 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.
    • 1 - Party Reunion
    2024-04-04

  • If I'm getting back into this, I could use the Official Clue Book.

videos

2022-09-02
1 - Party Reunion

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