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Epyx "DunjonQuest" series by Aric Wilmunder, made 1981-1982 for BASIC language, the 1981 stuff is primitive, this one "Temple of Apshai" was the main 1982 game having several 1982 sequels, some are expansion packs which require this game as its foundation. The 1983 "Gateway to Apshai" was an arcade-style game with little/nothing in common. The 1985 "Temple of Apshai Trilogy" however is a beautifully made machine language rewrite which preserves all the original dungeons data (and great music was added). This 1982 BASIC version uses many more detailed keyboard commands than Trilogy and is helped a lot by high speed emulation.
Presently the download has 2 sided tape and OEM disk, but the disk requires slow SIO for validating copy protection. The cracked disk version in this download is broken, missing level 4 of 4, level 2 has major differences. I found it easy and worthwhile to convert the 2 tapes into one disk. The crack disk here already has a neato Autorun.Sys file for loading any Basic program from DOS 2.0S, I reused Autorun. All four levels have identical data between tape and OEM disk.
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| Here you go:
http://cstone.net/~rich/Temple/howtoplay.html
http://cstone.net/~rich/Temple/room_descriptions_level_1.html
http://cstone.net/~rich/Temple/room_descriptions_level_2.html
http://cstone.net/~rich/Temple/room_descriptions_level_3.html
http://cstone.net/~rich/Temple/room_descriptions_level_4.html |
| Muffy St. Bernard - 30/03/2008 |
I wish somebody would put the room descriptions online somewhere! I no longer have the packaging and the game's no fun without them. |
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| Does anybody have the single-sided tape version of the game? |
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| The Book of Atari Software · 1984 | Rating: B |
A fantasy role-playing game is a type of game that gives the player certain attributes in order to accomplish a particular goal or task. Temple of Apshai is a good example of this type of game. The player must utilize such attributes as dexterity, intelligence, strength, tools, fatigue, and so on, to fight his way through a maze populated with monsters and other untoward dangers.
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