Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom IBM PC MS-DOS 1993 Silmarils

Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom

Silmarils released Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1993. Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom is the sequel to Ishar: Legend of the Fortress of 1992 and the prequel to Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity of 1994.

Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom was conceived by Michel Pernot and Pascal Einsweiler; was programmed by Michel Pernot, André Rocques and Fabrice Hautecloque; was drawn by Jean-Pascal Einsweiler, Jean-Christophe Charter and Eric Galand; and was composed by Fabrice Hautecloque.

Ishar 2 displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. Ishar 2 employs 400,000 drawspaces 256x113px in size (yes, the drawspace size is smaller than the original Ishar's drawspace of 256x126). [1]

Ishar 2 features seven islands to explore, potion recipes, one dozen offensive spells, 13 defensive spells and seven specific spells. Over Ishar, the user interface has been improved, the gameworld is much larger and saving the game is free, not 1,000 GP.

Ishar 2 requires an i80386 CPU and 4 megs of RAM and was distributed on 2x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes. The hard disk drive install size is 3 megs (155 files).

Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom Manual: 33 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
• Captive Amiga 1990: 32-color 146x144 drawspace
• Crystals of Arborea IBM PC 1990: 16-color EGA 320x152 drawspace
• 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
• Ishar: Legend of the Fortress IBM PC 1992: 256-color VGA 256x126 drawspace
• Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom IBM PC 1993: 256-color VGA 256x113 drawspace
• Liberation Captive 2 Amiga 1993-94: 256-color AGA 192x100 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
• Ishar 3: Seven Gates of Infinity IBM PC 1994: 256-color VGA 256x113 drawspace

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