- After playing a few old school roguelikes lately, I remembered all the cool-looking RPGs of the early 90s that I never understood how to play, and wanted to try some of them. Dungeon Hack is a close equivalent to the roguelikes, but with a typical first person 90s RPG perspective.
- I have created a fighter/mage elf character, Cheator, with all the stats set to max. Seems like you shouldn't be able to do that...
- Dammit, Cheator died...
- Yes! Found the first stairs down with my dwarf fighter guy... But now the game wants me to enter a word from the manual.
- Found it. Let's see what dungeon level 2 is like...
- Hmm... seems like lower armor class is better. Wikipedia says that Dungeon Hack is based on AD&D 2nd Edition.
- I reached dungeon level 3 with my dwarf dude. The game is OK, but it gets a bit boring after a while.
- I was playing around with the ao486 MiSTer core and got this running correctly. I'm figuring out how to manage game installations, I think for now I'm going to have a boot VHD that I can tinker with to get the optimal game environment, and a game VHD that has all the games installed, and possibly the installers as well.
- After some thinking, I ended up making a standalone VHD for Dungeon Hack, more like an Amiga disk game or a cartridge. I created a super-strong Dwarven fighter, Dworf, and failed miserably on the first level (Moderate difficulty), because I forgot to keep an eye on my HP.
- I started a new game with a preset character, Neysea Snowwolf, a fighter. She died on level 1 to a Troglodyte, a reptilian humanoid that weakens you. Avoid at all cost.
- The next game I started with Neumas Moltengale, the Mage. After spending a little time figuring out how to use spells and resting all the time (which is a bit annoying), I was doing quite well, and ended up dying on the second level to a Ghoul due to a lack of food. The game I have is not cracked, so I had to find the real manual online to look up a word for the piracy protection.
- I played another game with the preset character Aventgar Pureblade, a very strong paladin. I learned that the weakening that the Troglodytes incur is temporary, although it lasts for a long time. I ended up dying on level 2 from running out of food.
- Now, here's a dungeon crawler with an auto-map.
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