Eye of the Beholder PC Games IBM PC MS-DOS 1991 & 1993 Westwood Associates

Eye of the Beholder Games PC

Westwood Associates' Eye of the Beholder games are cRPGs released in 1991 and 1993 for IBM PC MS-DOS. The Eye of the Beholder games have their origin in Atari ST Dungeon Master of 1987.

The Eye of the Beholder games are best played on IBM PC MS-DOS.

Specifications for Eye of the Beholder Games

All three EotB-engine games share the following specifications:

• 256-color VGA 320x200 display
• Icon-driven mouse control
• AD&D 2nd Edition ruleset implementation
• Flip-screen first-person exploration
• Sprite-scaled objects and actors
• 176x120 active drawspace (action window) [1]
• Installation to HDD via 3.5" diskettes or 5.25" floppy disks

Eye of the Beholder IBM PC 1991

Westwood Associates released Eye of the Beholder for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1991. Set in TSR's Forgotten Realms campaign setting (FRCS), Eye of the Beholder is an AD&D-based clone of FTL's Dungeon Master of 1988.

EotB displays in 256-color VGA 320x200; it features a 176x120px drawspace. EotB was programmed by Phillip W. Gorrow; the Amiga port was coded by Bill Stokes.

Eye of the Beholder requires 565,000 bytes of free conventional RAM.

Distributed on 3x 3.5" 720kB DD diskettes or 5x 5.25" 360kB DS DD floppy disks, Eye of the Beholder extracts and installs via PKSFX Self-Extract Utility 1.1 by PKWARE Inc. The install size is 2 megs.

• Eye of the Beholder Manual aka Rule Book: 33 pages
• Eye of the Beholder Hint Book: 75 pages
• Eye of the Beholder Map of the Sewers: 3 levels

Eye of the Beholder 2 IBM PC 1991

Westwood Associates released Eye of the Beholder 2: The Legend of Darkmoon for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1991. EotB 2 was programmed by Phillip W. Gorrow; the Amiga port was coded by Bill Stokes. EotB 2 increased environmental interaction, added outdoor areas and introduced respawning enemies.

Distributed on 3x 3.5" 720kB DD diskettes, Eye of the Beholder 2 extracts and installs via Eye of the Beholder 2 Installation Program. Install size is 1.8 megs.

• Eye of the Beholder Manual 2 aka Rule Book: 58 pages
• Eye of the Beholder 2 Clue Book: 72 pages
• On Silver Tower Level 3 (Beholder Level), do not put your hand into the pedestal until you have the Shieldbreaker green hammer. 

Eye of the Beholder 3 IBM PC 1993

Strategic Simulations Inc. released Eye of the Beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor for IBM PC MS-DOS 3.3/4GW Protected mode run-time 1.97 in 1993. EotB 3 was programmed by John Miles; there is no Amiga version.

Eye of the Beholder 3 requires an i80386 CPU, 575,000 bytes of free conventional RAM and 983,040 bytes of EMS RAM.

A disk-caching driver such as Microsoft SmartDrive (SMARTDRV) is recommended.

Eye of the Beholder 3 allows the use of two sound cards: one for digital sound effects (e.g, Sound Blaster Pro) and one for music (e.g., Roland LAPC).

Distributed on 3x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and 1x 720kB DD diskette, Eye of the Beholder 3 extracts and installs via Robert K. Jung's DEARJ 2.30. The install size is 9 megs.

• Eye of the Beholder Manual 3 aka Rule Book: 93 pages
• Eye of the Beholder 3 Clue Book: 78 pages

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Flip-screen cRPG active drawspace size comparison (in horizontal and vertical pixels):

• Dungeon Master Atari ST 1987: 16-color 224x136 drawspace
• Pool of Radiance IBM PC 1988: 16-color EGA 88x88 drawspace
• Bloodwych Amiga 1989: 16-color 2x 128x76 drawspaces
• Eye of the Beholder IBM PC 1991: 256-color VGA 176x120 drawspace
• Fate Gates of Dawn Amiga 1991: 32-color 176x107 drawspace
• Black Crypt Amiga 1992: 64-color 208x140 drawspace
• Dark Queen of Krynn IBM PC 1992: 256-color VGA 88x88 drawspace
• Lands of Lore IBM PC 1993: 256-color VGA 176x120 drawspace
• Hired Guns IBM PC 1993: 256-color VGA 4x 140x82 drawspaces
• Perihelion The Prophecy Amiga 1993: 32-color 176x120 drawspace

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