Lands of Lore IBM PC MS-DOS 1993 Westwood Studios

Lands of Lore 1993

Westwood Studios released Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 in 1993.

Lands of Lore is just another 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 morvement and more accurate for positioning.

Lands of Lore displays in 256-color VGA 320x200. The active drawspace is only 176x120 px. [1]

Lands of Lore requires a i80386 CPU, 572K of free conventional RAM (585,728 bytes) and 890K of XMS RAM (911,360 bytes).

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 via Westwood Studios Program Installation. The install size is 17 megs (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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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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