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  • Re: Origin Of ..... Darklands the video game? Medieval Europe?

    From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to alt.folklore.computers on Thu Sep 3 00:06:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

    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!
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