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Andrew Wingate

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More options 22 Apr, 13:06

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From: Andrew Wingate <andy...@sparse.net>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:06:37 GMT

Local: Tues 22 Apr 2008 13:06

Subject: Re: Qercus?

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In article <0b00eb934f.And...@no.reply>, groups...@googlemail.com
wrote:

> In message <0da18158-caa9-4692-b027-2807d593a...@d45g2000hsc.googlegro
> ups.com>

> > On 21 Apr, 19:56, groups...@googlemail.com wrote:
> >> Not sure if Colin reads the newsgroups but the game in question from
> >> TEQ seems to be The Dungeon from 4th Dimension. Getting it is another
> >> matter although Liquid Silicon appeared in a Google search. The
> >> correspondent calls it an adventure game but his description (e.g.
> >> giant spiders) recalls the screenshots of that game.

> >> Andrew
> >> --

> > Andrew- yes I occasionally lurk here while avoiding OU assignments!

> > Thanks for the info- its been bugging me as I'm almost sure I had a
> > demo which matched the description but coudn't find it on any of the
> > disks lurking in my office.

> > Will pass the info on in the next Quill! (if thats ok?)

> Yes that's fine. Anybody got any decent screenshots?

Most screenshots are likely to be embarrassing rather than decent due to
the unfortunate use of scaling bitmaps up when the monsters get nearer.
The bitmaps weren't brilliant to start with but it was the nearest we
were likely to get to Dungeon Master or similar.

See <URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yytS1NEEHMQ> for a video, though
not if only using RISC OS.
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Andy Wingate <URL:http://www.sparse.net>
I'm not nearly as think as you confused I am.

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