Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse
Cyberlore Studios released Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in 1994. Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse features seamless transition and screen-scrolling in top-down perspective.
The AD&D-based Arabian Nights-inspired Genie's Curse is set in TSR's Al-Qadim campaign setting of 1992. The player does not get to create a character from scratch, but the pre-defined scimitar-wielding protagonist does have stats, spells and level progression via experience-point acquisition. In addition, there are NPCs and dialogue selections.
In Al-Qadim players assume the role of Al-Hazrad, a Corsair from the town of Zaratan on the Sorcerer's Isle. Al-Hazrad is tasked with defending his family's honor, saving Princess Kara and foiling an evil plot hatched by The Nameless Masters, culminating in a battle with Drackan.
Al-Qadim was designed by Herb Perez and programmed by Ken Grey.
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse Feature List
- 3x difficulty levels: Easy, Normal & Hard
- 1x Race: Human
- 1x Class: Corsair of 2nd level
- 6x Ability Scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
- Alignment, Hit points, Experience Points (XP), Levels
- Combat: Move, Attack, Dodge, Melee combat via Sword & Ranged combat via Sling
- 21x locations in the town of Zaratan and 20x other locations
- 20x different monsters
- Gold/gems, Rings, Potions & Magic Shards of the Moonstone
- 8x Magic Shard spells
- Actions: Walk, Talk, Push/pull, Break/smash, Open/close, Hide/sneak
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse Technical
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse is a Rational Systems' DOS/4GW Protected mode run-time (v1.96).
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse requires an i80386-33 MHz CPU, 540,000 bytes of free conventional memory and 2,250,000 bytes of XMS memory (4 megs of RAM).
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse displays in 256-color VGA 320x200.
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse audio supports Roland SCC-1 or MPU 401, AdLib, General MIDI, Gamewave32, Soundwave32, WaveBlaster, Sound Blaster Regular, Sound Blaster Pro 16 ASP, Sound Blaster Pro I-III, Sound Blaster AWE 16, Media Vision PAS, Media Vision Thunderboard, Ensoniq SoundScape, Orchid Soundwave 32, Logitech Soundman Wave, Generic OPL4 FM Board, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum and Gravis UltraSound. Al-Qadim supports the use of two sound cards; e.g., Roland SCC-1 for music and Sound Blaster Pro for digital sound effects.
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse was distributed on 5x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Installer for Genie's Curse and Robert K. Jung's DEAJ 2.30 of 1992. The install size is 11 megs and consists of 289 files.
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse Manual aka Rule Book: 57 pages
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse Clue Book: 94 pages
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse copy protection: manual verification
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