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Hillsfar IBM PC MS-DOS 1989

Westwood Associates released Hillsfar for IBM PC MS-DOS 2.1 in 1989. Hillsfar is an AD&D-based adventure game that features flip-screen exploration and fixed-screen and scrolling action sequences, some of which are timed. You only create one AD&D character.

Hillsfar was programmed by Kirk Fitzgerald and Ethan Grimes.

Hillsfar Features

Top-down map
City of Hillsfar with 27x locations
Equestrian, Archery, Arena and Maze-running game modes
Lock-picking mini-game 17 years before Oblivion!
Create one character
6x Races: Human, Half-elf, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Halfling
4x Classes: Fighter, Cleric, Magic-user, Thief
6x Ability Scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
Alignment, Hit points, Experience Points (XP), Levels
Quests for Fighter, Cleric, Magic-user & Thief
4x horse-types & 5x weapon-types
4x Arena opponents: Orc, Minotaur, Lizard Man & Knight

Hillsfar Technical

Hillsfar displays in 16-color EGA 320x200. Hillsfar audio supports IBM PC Internal Speaker.

Hillsfar was distributed on 1x 3.5" 720kB DD diskette or 2x 5.25" 360kB floppy disks and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via installh c. The install size is 775 kbytes and consists of 56 files.

Hillsfar Manual aka Rule Book: 11 pages
Hillsfar Clue Book: 27 pages
Hillsfar copy protection: Translation Wheel

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