Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos
Westwood Studios released Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in September of 1993. Lands of Lore was designed by William Alan Crum and Philip W. Gorrow; its lead programmer was Philip W. Gorrow of Eye of the Beholder fame; its lead artist was Rick Parks.
The object of Lands of Lore is to assemble the Truth Stone and destroy the Nether Mask in order to defeat the hideous hag, Scotia. The party battles through forests, caves, swamps, mines and towers en route to Castle Cimmeria.
Lands of Lore is a flip-screen cRPG in the vein of Dungeon Master. And while it is switchable between interpolated ("scrolling") or flip-screen exploration, flip-screen is faster for movement and more accurate for positioning.
Lands of Lore Feature List
- 3x difficulty levels
- 4x main characters
- 4x temp characters
- Fighter, Rogue and Mage skill levels
- 3x stats: Might, Magic & Protection
- Spellbook & magic scrolls
- 7x Spells with 4x spell levels
- Poison, Sleep & Stun status effects
- Resting & Healing
- 90x Arms & 70x Armor
- Some weapons have chance-based on-hit effects
- Take, Throw Drop and Use items
- Magic Atlas automap with legend
- Compass & Lantern
- Buy & Sell
- Scrollable icon-based inventory
- 30x different areas
- 50x different monsters with 6x stats
- Digitized speech
Lands of Lore Technical
Lands of Lore displays in 256-color VGA 320x200, but its active drawspace is only 176x120 px.
Lands of Lore requires a i80386 CPU, 572K of free conventional memory (585,728 bytes) and 890K of XMS memory (911,360 bytes). Lands of Lore performance is increased with additional XMS RAM.
Featuring digitized speech, Lands of Lore audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Gold Sound Standard, AdLib, Roland MT-32 or LAPC-1, General MIDI or Sound Canvas and IBM PC or Tandy.
Lands of Lore was distributed on 8x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via Westwood Studios Program Installation. The install size is 17 megs and consists of 30 files.
- Lands of Lore Manual: 19 pages
- Lands of Lore Clue Book: 118 pages
- Lands of Lore copy protection: Manual reference: page, line, word
Lands of Lore DOSBox: CPU: 386_prefetch.
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