Legend of Faerghail Amiga 1990 Electronic Design Hannover Olaf Barthel

Legend of Faerghail 1990

Electronic Design Hannover released Legend of Faerghail for the Amiga in 1990. Legend of Faerghail was programmed by Olaf Barthel; its graphics drawn by Matthias Kästner; its audio composed by Andreas Starr.

Legend of Faerghail is a medieval-fantasy cRPG in which players create a six-person adventuring party.

Legend of Faerghail employs flip-screen exploration, turn-based combat and text-based menus that are nagivated via mouse-cursor and shortcut keys.

Legend of Faerghail displays in 32-color 320x200, but the active drawspace is only 120x119. [1] There is no actor sprite-scaling in flip-screen mode and there are no moving sprites in turn-based mode. 

Legend of Faerghail was distributed on 3x 3.5" 880kB DD diskettes and is hard disk drive-installable. The install size is 2 megs.

Legend of Faerghail Features

• Legend of Faerghail Character Attributes: strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution
• Other stats: hit points, magic points, experience points (XP), armor class (AC), alignment, weight, gold
• Legend of Faerghail Races: human, dwarf, elf, halfling, mixed race
• Legend of Faerghail Trades (classes): warrior, barbarian, thief, blacksmith, magician, illusionist, paladin, ranger, cleric, druid, healer, monk
• Legend of Faerghail Abilities (skills): attack, defense, negotiating, concentrating, trap detecting, trap disposal, open door, pick pocketing, stalking
• Legend of Faerghail Languages: common, animal, orc, lizard, dwarf, elf, dark, magic
• Legend of Faerghail Towns: trading post, bank, inn, temple, emporium,  temple, Grand Board of Trades
• Flip-screen mode Actions (wilderness/dungeon): use, cast spell, forge, rest, dismiss, lure, magic ball, pick lock, options/files, pause
• Legend of Faerghail NPC interactions: trade wares, combat, retreat, recruit
• Legend of Faerghail Spells: x31 magician spells, x25 illusionist spells, x21 druid spells, x20 cleric spells, x18 healer spells, x10 blacksmith spells
• x8 dungeon-types each with 4 levels and 1,000 rooms
• x80 enemy types

Legend of Faerghail was first released on the Amiga. The Atari ST and Amiga versions of Legend of Faerghail require 512K of RAM, but the game will employ 1 meg of RAM on the ST in order to reduce load-times. On the Amiga 1 meg of RAM is used for additional audiovisuals.

Legend of Faerghail manual: 96 pages in English.

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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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